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"Threats by elements in the proud community": The route of the Pride Parade in Mitzpe Ramon has changed Israel today

2022-06-26T06:55:58.741Z


After Rabbi Zvi Kostiner called "gays home", the organizers of the march decided to move him near the hesder yeshiva he heads • After receiving threats on his life, the police decided to change the route to avoid friction between the parties. "


The route that will take place this Friday at the Pride Parade in Mitzpe Ramon has been changed by the police, among other things due to threats received on the life of the head of the Hesder Madbar as a Eden, Rabbi Zvi Kostiner, and due to fear of friction between the parties.

Israel Today has learned that out of fear that the parade route, which was supposed to pass near the yeshiva, could lead to friction and even conflict, the police decided that the marchers would not go along the original route but in an alternative route.

As you may recall, last month a document was published of Rabbi Kostiner going out against the LGBT community in a demonstration in front of the house of MK Nir Orbach (right), where he said, among other things, "gays are home."

This provoked a great deal of anger from elements in the proud community, including calls to remove him from giving lectures in the IDF, as published in "Israel Today". Following the publication of the documentation, the organizers of the parade in Mitzpe Ramon When last time the parade took place outside the city itself.

Tel Aviv Pride Parade (Archive), Photo: Coco

Sources at the yeshiva revealed that after the publication of the documentation, Rabbi Kostiner received threats on his life from officials in the LGBT community, which led to a complaint being filed against them. About a week ago, the yeshiva sent a letter to the district commander Of individuals in the locality who decided to bring in people from outside in order to carry out a pride parade and whose purpose was to carry out a provocation.

"A year ago, a group of a few individuals decided to bring non-city citizens to the town to do a parade" Pride.

Now, they have decided to make the march deliberately within the neighborhoods of the settlement, emphasizing the passage in front of the Hesder Yeshiva, the Torah school and near the house of the Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Zvi Kostiner, "yeshiva director Shmuel Koka wrote to Dimona station commander Moshe Zrihan. "The life that the rabbi received in the last month from various people belonging to the LGBT organizations and serious harm to the rabbi on social networks. Of course, a complaint was filed with the police in this matter, but no response has yet been received."

According to the yeshiva staff, "all these data make us fear that all the terrible incitement could lead to physical harm and danger to Rabbi Zvi and the residents of Mitzpe Ramon. We demand your immediate intervention to change the route of the parade by not reaching the yeshiva and the rabbi's house. "These violent people, who are not locals, will come to the settlement and create dangerous provocations," Coca wrote.

A copy of the letter was also sent to Superintendent Amar Peretz, Commander of the Southern District of the Police, and Roni Marom, Head of the Mitzpe Ramon Council.

Rabbi Zvi Kostiner, in 2020, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon

The residents of the town who belong to the yeshiva community claim that this is a deliberate provocation that is out of place.

According to them, for many years there has been a fabric of life between the secular and the religious, and each community knew how to find its place without harming other communities in the community, until two years ago new residents arrived who led the Pride Parade.

The responses of the police and representatives of the proud community in the city will be published after they are received.

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Source: israelhayom

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