Jews in New York, as in other parts of the world, face a complex situation, Israel’s interim consul general said in New York, Israel Nitzan. “Now we face two pandemics: one is COVID-19 and the other is anti-Semitism,” he said, in an exclusive interview with JewishPress. com through Zoom.
At least a hundred Public Schools in New York City closed on Tuesday when New York State took into account the application of coronavirus restrictions on the city’s “hot spots” due to significant case accumulation in nine zip codes.
Restrictions are being applied in many neighborhoods where there is a giant Orthodox Jewish population and where yeshivas had reopened in September. Although the maximum of the two hundred private schools in the nine postcodes involved are Orthodox Jewish yeshivas, there are also seven Catholic schools among those affected.
Governor Andrew Cuomo said he planned to meet with devoted leaders on Tuesday to discuss the issue; He also warned that he would be willing to close synagogues and churches if they did not adhere to the rules, Fox News reported. “If you do not agree to adhere to the rules, we will close the institutions. I’m in a position to do it,” Cuomo said.
The Acting Consul General is largely tracking the COVID-19 pandemic in the Big Apple, he said, and remains strict with consulate staff schedules and rotations to ensure that safer criteria for all, as the fitness scenario challenges diplomatic, operational and fitness personnel. .
New York is Nitzan’s fourth overseas place. She served at the Israeli Embassy in Cairo as a spokesman from 2002 to 2005, returning in 2009 as project deputy chief until an attack by the 2011 Egyptian revolution in which the embassy was forced to evacuate. Until 2015, he served as Minister Counsellor for Political Affairs at the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations, where he addressed the UN Security Council and oversaw Israeli policy-making policies within the United Nations system. Department of Political Affairs of Nations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2015, where he worked until 2018, when he entered the consulate.
However, in addition to the fitness problems facing the consulate, Nitzan noted that he and his own have also had to deal with the rise of anti-Semitism.
Nitzan said the way to solve any of the disorders is to “build coalitions and pictures with our friends, collaborate and tactics to solve the disorders together. “
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– Israel Nitzan ?? (@IsraelNitzan) August 16, 2020
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But Nitzan also told JewishPress. com that he is one that affects more than one consulate, or even a single country.
(Editor’s note: A Jewish student in Gerguyy was seriously injured on Sunday (October 4, 2020) in an assassination attempt with an anti-Semitic attempt through a 29-year-old boy dressed in military attire, a shovel as a homicide. swastika hand-drawn in his pocket. The 26-year-old student was attacked while entering a synagogue in the northern city of Hamburg; he was hospitalized with serious head injuries. )
While saying that he and his staff “paint with netpainting leaders, build coalitions and paintings with our friends to collaborate and locate tactics to solve this challenge together,” the Acting Consul General declared that it was a gray domain; the anti-Semitism factor goes beyond the local mandate of the New York Consulate.
“I believe that anti-Semitism is now a component of the lives of Jews in the diaspora and that it is not just a challenge of the local network here in New York, it is a challenge that threatens all the Jewish people,” Nitzan said.
“While we may not have the strength to act as a foreign diplomatic mission, we have an ethical and ancient duty to act as representatives of the State of Israel. And we talk and ask for anti-Semitism every time and of course anywhere we see it. We painted with a lot of friends.
“There are a lot of other smart people here in New York who are fighting this hatred of Jews,” he said.
“What we see is alarming. I believe that sending a transparent message from the Government of Israel, as a state that has an ethical duty for the well-being of Jewish communities around the world, is something that is appreciated and accepted through many local leaders. – and we are running with them to tactics to solve this problem ».
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