Especially on Independence Day: A synagogue will be forced to close due to performances Israel today

Worshipers at the Penny Meir Synagogue in Kfar Yona are angry that the city's main Independence Day performances will be held next to the prayer house, which will force them to close the place due to the huge noise.

Towards Independence Day, preparations began for the event, centered on a performance by Eli Butner and the Foreign Children, which the worshipers claim is in itself a disruption to the standard order of prayers.

Preparations for the performance next to the synagogue

"This is a serious injury to the synagogue and the worshipers," says one of the synagogue's worshipers. , While trampling on the crude foot of all that is sacred to us, and especially on the Independence Day of the Jewish state.

"It is important for us to emphasize that the damage to the synagogue does not only end on Independence Day, but far beyond that. "Prayers and lessons can be held while the speakers are working at full power outside, with songs and performances that are detrimental to the synagogue. From all over the city, have they not found another area?"

One of the worshipers wondered.

Indeed, in previous years the performances had taken place at the municipal stadium.

The Kfar Yona municipality responded: "In light of the escalation in the security situation, and after the Israeli police disqualified two other locations for Independence Day eve events, we had to hold the events on the plot in the Pecan-Cypress and Ethrog streets, which received police approval, and the synagogue is at the end. For three weeks, the mayor, Shoshi Kahlon Kidor, tried to inform the honorable Rabbi Yosef Hallelujah, the rabbi of the community, of this matter, without success.

"In the circumstances, and since there is no other place in the city where an event with 10,000 people can be held, the said compound was prepared, without the synagogue community refusing to pray. As far as we know, the closing prayer on Wednesday, Independence Day, ends at 8:00 p.m. The events, while the closing prayer the next day, Thursday, ended at 8:45 p.m., while a musical performance was scheduled to open at the venue only at 9:00 p.m. "It is a pity that so far the rabbi of the community has not found time to talk to the mayor, and it is even more unfortunate that Independence Day was used to sow controversy and division," it was added.

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