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Stop the impending disaster: Criticism of the ultra-Orthodox sector is not incitement - but saving lives Israel today

2020-10-01T20:47:46.943Z


| In the countryThe fact that the centers of morbidity among the ultra-Orthodox are dangerous is not an interpretation, but a worrying figure • Whenever the data is updated, a murky wave of hatred against them sweeps the country There is a difficult and familiar problem that cannot be ignored. Whenever a dialogue arises around the ultra-Orthodox world, the country is washed away by a murky wave of hatred against


The fact that the centers of morbidity among the ultra-Orthodox are dangerous is not an interpretation, but a worrying figure • Whenever the data is updated, a murky wave of hatred against them sweeps the country

There is a difficult and familiar problem that cannot be ignored.

Whenever a dialogue arises around the ultra-Orthodox world, the country is washed away by a murky wave of hatred against them.

Once it's the recruitment law, once it's opening supermarkets and train work on Saturday, and now we're in the midst of a particularly toxic Haredi-Corona discourse.

Photo: Moshe Ben Simhon

The media has a part in this.

For many years, news headlines such as "Haredi sexually harassed" were published, but a headline about "a secular man who sexually harassed" was never published.

Broadcasters dared to call the ultra-Orthodox "worms", "parasites", "extortionists", a well-known commentator claimed that the ultra-Orthodox were violent and used the example of demonstrations from 25 years ago. . 

Without contempt

The incitement permeates the public.

In the first wave, when Bnei Brak was in quarantine, in a neighboring city they tried to surround Bnei Brak with fences, an ultra-Orthodox in the writer went through insults and insults like "disease spreaders" and the talkbacks repeatedly came back angrily to "these dossiers."

The news you are reading was taken from a newspaper that has applied itself since the day it was founded. It is a clear rule: do not despise the Jewish tradition, do not mock the ultra-Orthodox.

Exceptional and potentially contemptuous halakhic rulings on probation even on Shabbat have not been expressed here.

The "Saturday flight" that turned out to be a blood libel was refuted on these pages, and there was also criticism of the ease with which the police use hallucinations in ultra-Orthodox demonstrations in front of other demonstrations.

Out of respect

Difficult stories revealed in this newspaper about the exploits of rabbis such as Berland or Ezra Sheinberg were also carefully examined over and over again and written carefully and meticulously.

But there is also a critique that must be written.

In no sense, in sensitivity.

In gentle language, with a wide heart and a great love for brothers.

We are in critical days.

Days seen in horror movies.

Wearing masks has become a normal thing, medical professionals covered from head to toe no longer look like something out of the ordinary, and no one will do "poo" on a birthday cake in the office anymore.

An average of 20 deaths (yes, deaths) a day in the war against the corona has become routine.

It is impossible to ignore the fact that there are broad and acute centers of illness in the ultra-Orthodox world.

This is a factual matter, not subject to interpretation.

The ultra-Orthodox way of life is very difficult in the war in Corona.

The overcrowding, the families with many people, the synagogues and the Tishim cause the outbreak of the disease.

That is why the decision of the rebbe who stands helpless in the face of the corona and surrenders is dramatic. It must not be missed. It will affect us all, with an infection that will spread beyond the courts of the Hasidim, in hospital-laden hospitals. Will win the soul machine and who does not.

It's important to write about it, to report, to keep your eyes open, to wake up the authorities, to put pressure on the rabbis, and it works.

Yesterday, two Hasidic sects, Belza Vizhnic, announced that they were canceling the events of the week.

Even if media pressure does not affect a closed stork, it does affect the police - and it is she who presses and changes the picture in storks that do not follow the rules.

There is no intention to harm, insult or defame the ultra-Orthodox.

This is not "yellow" news in the newspaper.

We respect the ultra-Orthodox world, but cannot close our eyes to an impending disaster.

Criticism is not incitement, but saving lives.

Source: israelhayom

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