Following the tragedy at the Chareidi daycare in the Romema neighborhood of Jerusalem early Monday afternoon, former Interior Minister MK Moshe Arbel of Shas was the first Knesset member to note that “the writing was on the wall.”
The incident occurred at a private Chareidi daycare in Romema, which was operating without a license.
Arbel said, “In the State of Israel, the children of illegal infiltrators are entitled to daycares and kindergartens. But in the name of the fight against the Chareidi public, the children of avreichim are expelled from supervised daycares.”
‘The cries of innocent babies and toddlers call out from the earth. We must all stop the persecution—children’s lives must be kept outside of any political struggle!’”
Former Welfare Minister, Shas MK Yoav Ben Tzur said: “In the determined struggle I waged to continue subsidies for daycare centers for avreichim, I warned and cried out in dozens of documents to the Attorney General’s Office about the grave danger of canceling subsidies for supervised daycare centers and pushing thousands of families into unsupervised daycares.”
“Sadly, today the concern proved to be a true outcry. The writing was on the wall. Helpless babies paid with their lives because of forceful and irresponsible decisions that harm helpless babies first and foremost.”
Journalist Yisrael Cohen said, “The blood is on their hands! Just a reminder that the Attorney General and the judicial system pushed an entire Chareidi public to the wall, canceled daycare subsidies for Chareidi toddlers, and parents were forced to move them to private daycares. Today’s tragic incident is the painful and bitter result.”
Shas Chairman Rabbi Aryeh Deri addressed the daycare tragedy in Jerusalem:
“My heart breaks at the sight of infants being evacuated to intensive care. We share in the profound sorrow of the families and pray for the recovery of the injured.
With all the pain, it must be said clearly: daycare centers must not be operated without supervision! ונשמרתם מאוד לנפשותיכם.
At the same time, a deep reckoning is required. Who can say, ’ידינו לא שפכו את הדם הזה? When a very large population is pushed all at once into distress, people are forced to seek alternative solutions, and the consequences can be harsh and bitter.”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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why should those who do not serve the State expect benefits from the State?
Complete and total hogwash! This particular unlicensed daycare has been operating for 30 years before any ruling from the AG or the Supreme Court!
There are literally hundreds of Charedi illegal (and often dangerous) daycares in Israel because the absence of safety regulations and income tax helps keep costs and prices down.
The parents who send their children know they are trading safety for cost.
And the AG/Supreme Court didn’t sanction children; they sanctioned healthy adults who lacked the legal standing to continue getting a daycare subsidy.
How about looking inward for a change instead of blaming the State, whose authority you don’t accept, and for whom you have zero appreciation?
I don’t know if blaming the fact that chareidim couldn’t send their kids to supervised daycare is the real issue. Even private daycares operating without license could have bypassed trouble if only they ran daycares with proper human care. What happened here and the pics and clips going viral showing the abuse and absurdity in this daycare is beyond human comprehension. Over heating the daycare, pilling babies and toddlers one on the other, putting babies to sleep right near germs/dirt toilets is not human… it’s abuse to the extreme level and warrants full punishment. How could these abusive carers face innocent parents daily knowing how they treat innocent babies? It’s beyond me. 🤮🤮🤮
What is wrong with you people??
Just bc the government doesn’t subsidize doesn’t mean you stuff 53 kids in a gan and put them horrible conditions. This is great I’ll open up a gan take 1,000 kids keep them in my machsan with horrible living conditions and if something goes wrong I’ll blame the evil government. This is crazy. We need to wake up and fast.
It doesn’t occur to anybody that maybe things/WE have to change.
אִוֶּלֶת אָדָם תְּסַלֵּף דַּרְכּוֹ, וְעַל יְהֹוָה יִזְעַף לִבּוֹ
It’s about time we stop blaming everyone else for our stupidity.
The cynicism of the comments by the MKs quoted is breathtaking.
an Israeli Yid
The same apikorsim Here to publicly tell us they don’t value learning And that it doesn’t contribute anything to the country, when we know that it’s what keeps the world standing. I don’t see you complaining that the Arabs are getting everything