After a respected ultra-Orthodox rabbi died this week for COVID-19, Israeli police believed he had reached an agreement with his supporters to allow for a small dignified burial that would comply with public fitness rules as a component of the existing coronavirus blockade.
Fans of Rabbi Mordejai Leifer, 65, had obtained special permission under Israel’s closing regulations to come with a lot of people. The rabbi, the leader of a Hasydic sect founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, about a hundred years ago. Ashdod for several decades.
But when it came time to bury the rabbi in the city of Ashdod on Monday, thousands of people showed up, ignoring social estification regulations and clashing with police seeking to disperse the mass demonstration.
Such violations of confinement regulations across segments of the ultra-Orthodox population have infuriated a wider Israeli audience that largely complies with the restrictions imposed to end a furious coronavirus epidemic.
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews attended the funeral of a respected rabbi in the city of Ashdod on Monday. The faithful had obtained special permission for many others to attend Rabbi Mordejai Leifer’s funeral, but many, many others, showed up.
The challenge of some members of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox network has baffled public fitness experts and unraged a new wave of resentment among secular Israelis, leading to fears of unity in the country once the pandemic is over.
The challenge has caused public fitness experts to test Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s long-standing political alliance with devoted leaders and unrapped a new wave of resentment among secular Israelis who care about their physical form and livelihoods.
“We have been asked to enter this blockade, with its meaningless economic cost, that goes crazy to other people, due to the accumulation of coronavirus that occurs basically in the ultra-Orthodox sector and largely due to the negligence of criminals,” the media personality said. Judy Shalom Nir Mozes wrote on the Ynet news site.
“There are two games here. One for us and one for them.
The ultra-Orthodox claim to have been unfairly attacked by their authorities and point to gigantic weekly protests, basically through lay Israelis, who oppose Netanyahu’s handling of the pandemic that continued the summer.
Last week alone, the government, however, imposed limits on the length of the protests, posing violations of public aptitude patterns.
“We are at the closest point of an explosion in terms of mistrust,” said Israel Cohen, ultra-Orthodox radio commentator Kol Barama.
The ultra-Orthodox network says it has been an unfair target during the closure of Israel’s moment, noting that weeks of mass protests opposed to the government’s handling of the pandemic have been able to continue without police intervention until recently, when their own meetings and social gatherings have been held. Shorten.
A deep chasm has long divided devout and secular Israelis, forged through years of likely preferential remedy for ultra-Orthodox who get government grants to examine full-time.
Ultra-Orthodox is the cornerstone of Netanyahu’s coalition and has helped secure his position as Israel’s oldest leader.
The country, with a population of about nine million, is dealing with one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world.
Its ultra-Orthodox community, which accounts for about 10% of the population, accounts for more than a third of the country’s coronavirus cases.
Rabbi Mordejai Leifer, whose body is seen here in an ambulance, buried Monday in the port city of Ashdod, had been the leader of a Hasidic sect founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, about a hundred years ago and led an organization of a dozen families. in Ashdod for several decades before his death.
Last week, Israel recorded peaks of 9,000 new viruses in line with the day.
It has recorded more than 272,000 cases shown and more than 1,700 coronavirus deaths since the pandemic began this year.
The current peak occurs in the main Jewish festivities, a time when the faithful fill synagogues regularly and hold a giant circle of family gatherings, whose leaders feared an increase in infection rates already soaring in the country.
Ultra-Orthodox leaders seek to impose social estating among mourners at Rabbi Mordejai Leifer’s funeral, yet many of those present have circumvented security measures.
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