There is no religious symbol in the picture.
No tassel, no cap and no wigs.
All in all, a kid with a visor, like thousands of secular kids at every Maccabi game in Bloomfield.
Like Bart Simpson.
Like Danny Fucking Naughty
Yesterday I went to the website you are surfing on right now, and I read that there is a storm going on all over Israel.
I immediately panicked, because I knew that in the morning I had sent my little girl to kindergarten without an umbrella.
But then I opened the window and saw that the sun was shining and the sky was blue.
odd.
I entered the site again and once again the headlines screamed at me that there, outside my house, "the winds are stormy".
The reason for the uproar, Aliba Devala Baranje and Kolli Alma, is a greeting sent to the incoming Minister of Health Arye Deri from the Klalit Health Fund, in which "Hamoodi", the cartoon presenter, is shown wearing a hat on his head.
Since this is a serious storm, I'd bet the hat he's wearing is actually a fancy spodick or streimel made from dozens of unlucky sable tails.
How much was my surprise when I saw the blessing itself and discovered that the graphic designers of "Klelit" put a blue forehead cap on the head of "Hamoodi"!
Gweld!!!
Seriously, is this the Torah storm?
Did they take a drawing of a child and add a brimmed hat to it?
Does this make the child religious?
By the way, under the hat the boy wears an orange t-shirt with short sleeves and makes a heart motion with his palms.
There is no religious symbol in the picture.
No tassel, no cap and no wigs.
All in all, a kid with a visor, like thousands of secular kids at every Maccabi game in Bloomfield.
Like Bart Simpson.
Like Danny Fucking Naughty.
The religious sweethearts (photo: screenshot, screenshot)
Maybe Halas?
Everyone deserves representation in advertisements, certainly for public companies that serve the general public such as health insurance companies.
Gays, Haredim, Arabs, Yemenis, Circassians and even Benny Gantz
Later, the Polo reporter came up with the reaction of the creator of the character, Danielle London-Dekel, whom I like very much even though we've never met - who reacted in a rather upset (still, upset) way to the whole thing.
London-Dekal claimed that the hat worn by Klalit's graphic artists signifies "vanity, flattery and low spirit" and added that "the original Hamodi was a cheeky, outspoken, strictly secular boy."
Of course, what secular child would wear a blue headband on his head?
First, the obvious must be stated.
If an Arab member of the Knesset was appointed to the position of Minister of Health, and Hamudi (an Arab name anyway) was dressed in a ceremonial cap for a one-time blessing, no one would dare to complain.
If anyone said anything against it, they would immediately be accused of racism, and rightly so.
On the other hand, a hat that implies a head covering for Jewish reasons - this is low spirit!
Secondly, one can ask, even if they chose "Kalelit" to put a kippah on Hammudi's head, what is the problem with that?
Among the 4 million customers of Israel's largest health insurance fund, aren't there occasionally patients who believe that God created the world in seven days but was unable to produce an MRI machine with a queue of less than six months? Telling them: "It's just a virus, if the fever doesn't go down in two days, come back for an inspection"? And seriously, don't children wearing caps deserve to see themselves in advertisements that target them, but only "insolent, blunt and strictly secular children"?
They all deserve representation in advertisements, of course To public companies that serve the general public such as health insurance funds. Gays, ultra-Orthodox, Arabs, Yemenis, Circassians and even Gantz. The thought that only a rosy boy with rosy cheeks can represent the Israeli public is rooted in the privileged and archaic Israeli racism.
Maybe Halas?
Are you trying to prove that Avishi Ben Haim is right?
The original Hamudi (photo: screenshot, screenshot)
The poison machine is on the left
This is not a reason to abolish an entire community of traditionalists in Israel, for whom wearing a hat does not signify low spirit, but the opposite.
This is exactly the "poison machine" that controls the Israeli discourse.
The right really has no exclusivity on it
Of course, all this does not cancel the criticism, interesting and important, regarding the very appointment of the serial criminal Aryeh Deri to the dual position of minister in Israel.
This is undoubtedly one of the most corrupt stains that have ever been on the governments of Israel, and thank God and His wife, there is no lack of such stains in the history of the days of Israeli governments.
The appointment of Aryeh Deri was born in sin, and should be protested against at every opportunity - but this is not a reason to cancel an entire community of traditionalists in Israel, for whom wearing a hat does not signify low spirit, but the opposite.
This is exactly the "poison machine" that controls the Israeli discourse.
The right really has no exclusivity on it.
And maybe, just maybe, for the corrupt and media geniuses who lead this government, and steer our country into very unpleasant areas, it's quite convenient that we deal with such storms.
Aryeh Deri prefers that we talk about Hamudi's hat (which is intolerable even on a routine basis, by the way) and not about the fact that a man convicted of accepting bribes, cheating and breach of trust and accepting anything on the level is about to sit on our public cash register.
How easy to generalize, how simple to cause hatred.
Not all ultra-Orthodox are Goldknopf, not all Sephardi are Deri, not all kippah wearers are Smotrich.
Just as not all small children are as annoying as "cute".
Amit Ben Menachem, a citizen with proportion.
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