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Chief rabbi urges government to consider size of synagogues in virus restrictions
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAshkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau calls on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein to ease restrictions on synagogues by allowing more people in large shrines.
“There is nothing similar between a synagogue that can contain hundreds and sometimes thousands of worshipers, and a small synagogue that can barely host 20 people,” Lau writes in a letter sent to Netanyahu and Edelstein.
“The arbitrary setting of a small maximum number of worshipers isn’t right for every place,” he adds. “We must consider the size and the distance that can be kept from one another.”
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