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Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Ultra-Orthodox MK slams police for breaking up Hasidic gathering
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleMK Yaakov Tessler of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party and a representative of the Vizhnitz Hasidic sect lambasts the shutting down of an event held by the group’s head rabbi yesterday.
Police broke up the mass gathering in the primarily ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak that took place immediately after the Yom Kippur fast.
Videos of the incident showed police escorting the Vizhnitz Rebbe away from the event, which was reportedly attended by hundreds.
תיעוד מהטיש בבני ברק אתמול: מפקד תחנת בני ברק, סנ״צ יאיר וייצנברגר שוחח עם האדמור מויזניץ, הרב ישראל הגר. השניים סיכמו כי כל המשתתפים הרבים שלקחו חלק בהתקהלות יתפזרו, כפי שקרה כעבור 10 דקות@daniel_elazar pic.twitter.com/48Ozp3Hwlk
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Tessler, speaking with Walla news, says the “event was defined in advance only for yeshivot members who have been together for about two months in capsules.”
He claims that people who criticize the ultra-Orthodox community are in fact looking for “incitement and likes.”
“There is a terrible lack of awareness here in the general community and in the media about the activity of the capsules,” he says.
The Times of Israel Community.