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Spokesman for top rabbi calls on Haredim not to demonstrate
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Following today’s mob attack against two female IDF servicewomen in Bnei Brak, a spokesman for one of Israel’s top rabbis calls on members of the Haredi community not to take part in public demonstrations.
In the wake of the incident, the spokesman shares a previously recorded video of Rabbi Dov Lando, the spiritual leader of the Degel Hatorah political faction, in which he stated that those taking to the streets “are doing great harm. Do not participate in the demonstrations!”
The video was initially recorded after a Haredi teenager was killed at an anti-conscription protest in Jerusalem last month.
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