The storm surrounding the opening of restaurants on the eve of Tisha B'Av in Tel Aviv refuses to subside the day after. The sight of restaurants open on the eve of the fast last night infuriated rapper Yoav Eliassi - "The Shadow" - who in response posted a scathing post online on Thursday with harsh criticism of the first Hebrew city and the restaurateurs who decided to open their businesses on the day of mourning for the destruction of the Temple.
Restaurants open in Tel Aviv on Tisha B'Av (archive), photo: Yehoshua Yosef
"I am disgusted by the city where I was born!" angered Eliassi. "Who are you doing? To my grandparents from Romania who fought to reach the Jewish state?"
Tel Aviv spat for tradition and religion inside
"Yesterday Tel Aviv spat at eighty percent of this people," the rapper stated. "She spat in the face to religion, to tradition, and showed that there is not a drop of respect and care left here from others. The same city that boasts peacock feathers of acceptance of the other, pluralism, and love, showed how, in the name of hatred of Bibi, the right and religion, it is worth burning everything we established here."
"Who are you doing, to whom?, to my Romanian grandparents who survived the Holocaust?"
On the other hand, in Ashdod. The Book of Lamentations is read in the synagogue, photo: Liron Moldovan
"I am a very liberal and secular person, but today I broke down and today I am disgusted by the city where I was born! Disgusted with this city and ashamed of it and every person who opened the business so that there would be a smell of cheese and bacon in the air that would disturb those fasting, just to put a finger in the eye," he said.
Asking my grandparents for forgiveness
Later in his speech, he addressed the business owners who opened their doors on the eve of the fast. "Who are you doing, to whom?, to my grandparents from Romania who survived the Holocaust and fought to reach the Jewish state? Or maybe to my grandparents from Persia who hid their Judaism so they wouldn't be murdered, and lost everything to get here? To whom and why? Why!"
"Today I ask my grandparents for forgiveness. Sorry for spitting on their sacrifice and for everything you've built here. It's not evil, they just don't understand what they're doing. A people that does not remember its past, its present is meager and its future is shrouded in fog."
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