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Haredi communities will hold protests at the end of the holiday across the country to bypass the closure - Walla! news

2020-09-16T18:22:56.662Z


Demonstrations will be held in the concentrations of the ultra-Orthodox communities, the stated purpose of which is to protest the closure during the holidays, but in practice they will exploit a loophole in the restrictions. Thus, families who have stayed with their relatives or with a spiritual leader will be able to move freely between the cities. Litzman, who led the protest initiative, did not admit that there was another motive behind it


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Haredi communities will hold protests at the end of the holiday across the country to circumvent the closure

Demonstrations will be held in the concentrations of the ultra-Orthodox communities, the stated purpose of which is to protest the closure during the holidays, but in practice they will exploit a loophole in the restrictions.

Thus, families who have stayed with their relatives or with a spiritual leader will be able to move freely between the cities.

Litzman, who led the protest initiative, did not admit that there was another motive behind it

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Wednesday, 16 September 2020, 21:13

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In the video: Imposition of the night curfew on 40 localities (Photo: Roni Kanfo, Shai Makhlouf, Yotam Ronen Editing: Assaf Drori)

Haredi communities plan to hold local demonstrations that will take place at the end of Rosh Hashanah around the country.

Officially, the demonstrations held to protest the closure during the holidays, but they are primarily designed to allow free passage between the ultra-Orthodox towns for families staying at with their relatives, or by the rebbe or spiritual leader.



Free passage possible despite the closure due to protests exclusion limit 500 meters. There will be protests On Sunday evening, among others in Bnei Brak, Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh and Safed, and other cities will join in. The initiatives were born in the Hasidic current in the ultra-Orthodox sector, and in each city an orderly request was made to the police to conduct the protest. The



leader of the initiative is Torah Judaism chairman Yaakov Litzman At an internal conference to hold the demonstrations in protest of the restrictions on prayers.

Litzman himself did not admit that the goal behind the demonstrations is free movement between cities.

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More cities will join later.

The entry of the night curfew in Bnei Brak last week (Photo: Reuven Castro)

In Safed, a request was made to the police to hold the demonstration under the heading "Protest over the coverage of the Umm al-Hiran affair," and in Bnei Brak for "the feeling of pain in the face of the consequences of the closure, which harms religious life and the economy and the well-being of residents."



Similar requests were submitted in cities such as Modi'in Illit, Haifa, Petah Tikva, Arad, Kiryat Gat and Hatzor.

In most of these cities there is a concentration of ultra-Orthodox from Hasidic communities, who apparently plan to spend the holiday with their family or with their spiritual leader outside the city.

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