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Bnei Brak mayor: Nobody will be removed from city by force
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIn an effort to calm members of his ultra-Orthodox city after what has been criticized as unclear government guidelines, Bnei Brak Mayor Avraham Rubinstein assures residents in a statement that “no one will be removed by force.”
Yesterday, the government announced that it had approved a plan to remove 4,500 Bnei Brak residents above the age of 80 from the virus-plagued city in order to ensure their health.
However, the announcement did not specify that only those who requested to be removed would be extracted.
Thus far, police have only removed a handful of elderly locals.
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