Haredi radio station angry at feminist group’s lawsuit pays with 300,000 coins

An ultra-Orthodox radio station finds a creative if pointedly passive-aggressive way to hand over a court-ordered payment to a feminist Orthodox activist group.

The group, Kolech, had sued over the Kol Barama radio station’s refusal to allow women to be interviewed in its broadcasts.

The court ruled in Kolech’s favor, ordering Kol Barama to host women on its radio shows and pay Kolech its expenses and fees totaling NIS 30,000.

Yesterday, the station’s staffers arrived at Kolech’s headquarters with boxes and buckets bearing 300,000 10 agorot coins, paying the NIS 30,000 it owed using the smallest coin denomination in circulation.

The station then celebrated its tantrum with a video titled “Operation Greed” posted online that depicts it as a prank.

מבצע ״בצע כסף״ • צפו>> pic.twitter.com/EhuJMz1liz

— קול ברמה (@KolBarama) July 15, 2019

A staffer then tells the camera, “You should learn that the Haredi public isn’t a sucker. Don’t interfere, definitely not out of greed.”