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2020-09-13 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Housing Minister Litzman resigns in protest of holiday lockdown

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-13 07:13|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Netanyahu: sorry to hear about Litzman resignation, we must move forward

A report compiled by the Israeli Military Intelligence and submitted to the government, claims that the expected gatherings in synagogues during the High Holidays could cause the infection rate throughout the country to grow exponentially.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-13 07:19|| 2020-09-13 07:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Following Housing and Construction Minister Yaakov Litzman's threats to resign in case a full closure is imposed during the holidays, senior Torah Judaism officials said that Litzman did not consult with them regarding his resignation from the government, and added to criticize his conduct during the coronavirus pandemic.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-13 07:27|| 2020-09-13 07:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Perhaps I should add a bit of background.
Ultra-Orthodox believe three things supersede everything else.
(a) Holly writings study (albeit other streams in Judaism point out that rote-memorization is not study).
(b) Having lots of children to annul the effects of Holocaust.
Finally, (c) they believe that proximity of less orthodox Jews harms their holiness - bad example to their kids.
As a result of (a), they don't serve in IDF and (most of them) live on welfare - masked as stipends to life-long yeshiva students.
As a result of (b) they're desperately poor.
So, the main goals of ultra-orthodox parties for the last two generations is increasing public "stipends" to yeshiva students.
As a result of (c) any neighborhood they settle in, they try to drive everyone else out.

However, during the last generation, the ultra-orthodox been the balance between the Left and Right blocks and used it to squeeze concessions (sounds familiar?).
While all Israelis recognize that ultra-orthodox are a problem (especially the religious Jews whom they consider apostates), most politicians preferred to kick the can down the road.
Lockdown is especially troublesome for them because their yeshivas squeese a lot of students in a classrooms where they "study" holy texts by singsong chorus reading aloud.
The above cited results from MI analysts must be especially grim to cause Bibi to break up with them.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-13 08:04|| 2020-09-13 08:04|| Front Page Top

#4 While all Israelis recognize that ultra-orthodox are a problem (especially the religious Jews whom they consider apostates), most politicians preferred to kick the can down the road.

I recommend universal K-12 ultra-orthodox cultural and awareness studies as a potential solution.

[snark off] But seriously, thanks for this most enlightening insight.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-09-13 08:37|| 2020-09-13 08:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Gracias

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-13 08:39|| 2020-09-13 08:39|| Front Page Top

#6 any neighborhood they settle in, they try to drive everyone else out.

Sounds a lot like "White Flight" from the 1960-1970's.

Posted by Clem 2020-09-13 08:42|| 2020-09-13 08:42|| Front Page Top

#7 #6 Meditate on "(sounds familiar?)". Just goes to show, if there is an ecological niche - somebody will move to occupy it.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-13 08:49|| 2020-09-13 08:49|| Front Page Top

#8 I will...over some "potato juice" ( or "wheat juice", if you prefer ).

Posted by Clem 2020-09-13 08:54|| 2020-09-13 08:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Russians don't drink potato vodka (unless there's nothing else - like diluted ethanol or aftershave). Germans do.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-13 09:14|| 2020-09-13 09:14|| Front Page Top

#10 God damn, grom, it is just a joke...just having a little fun. (And I know Russians don't drink potato vodka.)

Posted by Clem 2020-09-13 09:26|| 2020-09-13 09:26|| Front Page Top

#11 ^And I was joking back - a running joke, Clem.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-13 09:31|| 2020-09-13 09:31|| Front Page Top

#12 Touché

Posted by Clem 2020-09-13 09:33|| 2020-09-13 09:33|| Front Page Top

#13 😃

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-13 09:33|| 2020-09-13 09:33|| Front Page Top

#14 Chabad emissary infected with coronavirus: Don't come to Uman

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-13 10:03|| 2020-09-13 10:03|| Front Page Top

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