"Serious damage to the character of the Holy City." Safed Academic College (Photo: Walla! NEWS, Yoni Lubliner)
21 rabbis from Safed signed a manifesto calling on Safed Academic College not to build student dormitories. According to the rabbis' call, the construction of the dormitories is "a grave violation of the sanctity and character of the Holy City and constitutes a grave danger to all residents spiritually and physically."
The rabbis' intention is that Arab students will live in the dormitories, and this is what they oppose. A demonstration is also planned in the city on Sunday, following the rabbis' call. An advertisement calling for a demonstration in front of the city hall states that the construction of the dormitories will cause "terrible and terrible damage to the Jewish character of Safed, which Rahmana Litzlan has already caused assimilation, anti-Semitism and support for terrorism."
"They demand sharpness from advancing the plan." The call of the rabbis in Safed (Photo: official website, none)
Thirteen years ago, rabbis from Safed and around the country called on the city's residents not to rent apartments to Arab students. An "emergency conference" was held in Safed entitled "The Quiet War - Fighting Assimilation in the Holy City of Safed."
The conference said that the source of the problem threatening the city is Safed College, most of whose students are Arabs. Speakers at the conference warned against the government's intention to establish a medical school in Safed, which "may greatly aggravate the problem and harm its sanctity."
A few months earlier, 13 rabbis, headed by the city's chief rabbi, Shmuel Eliyahu, called not to sell or rent an apartment or plot of land in Eretz Israel to a non-Jew. At the time, threats were directed at an 18-year-old resident of the city, who rented an apartment to two Arab students. The threateners told him that his house would burn down, and leaflets were hung against him in the city.
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