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Yes, I alluded to the fact that the vaad rescued rabbonim and that this was ratzon Hashem so that seeds of Torah could be planted elsewhere and the community rebuilt. There were just not very many visas to anywhere out there and Torah priorities did indeed mean that Torah leaders needed to be saved first. This might not sit well with those who have American egalitarian sensibilities as opposed to Torah sensibilities, but that is just how it is. If the rabbonim had not been saved there would be no frum communities today anywhere and we all would have assimilated and intermarried ch”v.
However, most of those the zionists saved were just meant to be labor for the agrarian pipe dreams of the zionist elite and all of their efforts were directed at building their socialist utopia at the expense of saving Jews. They had far more resources and support than the Va’ad ever did and could have done a lot more. It is like comparing Hatzoloh to the EMS and asking why Hatzoloh does not answer every single call, Jewish and otherwise, that comes in via 911!
Em HaBanim Smeicha was a polemic written under fire and not meant to in any way promote the zionist state or zionist ideas regardless of its contents but rather to criticize not running away from the fire, as if there was anywhere to run. Apparently his son(s) managed to escape and there is a huge Chabad Teichtel family that is descended from him.
At one time, probably until he chose to retire, one of Rav Teichtel’s Lubavitcher sons was the prison chaplain at the infamous Shattah prison, home to the worst offenders in EY. He saw firsthand the products of the spiritual churban and just what the zionists did to Jews from places where Jewish violent crime was unheard of.
Jewish criminality in Morocco and Tunisia was something like 0.01% of the quite sizeable Jewish population. In EY a Moroccan Jew is called a marokai sakin, a Moroccan knife. As I once said to a group of Moroccan Jewish students, the only sharp knives Moroccan Jews ever used in Morocco were khalafim and milah knives.