21 rabbis from Safed signed a manifesto calling on Safed Academic College not to build student dormitories. Today a demonstration is planned in front of the city hall: "The move will cause terrible damage" A demonstration is also planned in the city on Sunday, following the rabbis' call.
A few months earlier, 13 rabbis, headed by the city's chief rabbi, Shmuel Eliyahu, called not to sell or rent an apartment or plot of land to a non-Jew.