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“NATIONAL EQUALITY DAY:” Protests Next To Ponevezh, Home Of Hagaon Harav Gershon Edelstein


Leftists protested throughout the country on Thursday as part of the National Equality Day against Chareidim and National Disruption Day against the government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

Unlike previous protests that focused mainly on judicial reform and Chareidim, the “protests” on Thursday were against an eclectic variety of issues, including discrimination against women and Arabs, the high rate of murder and violence in Arab society, and the soaring cost of living. Protests began early in the morning and are scheduled to take place through the evening.

The protests in Bnei Brak next to Ponevezh Yeshivah and the home of HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein had a very poor turnout, with just several dozen people chanting: “No reconciliation without enlistment.”

One of the protesters at the protest next to the home of HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein was former public security minister Omer Bar-Lev (Labor). After Netanyahu returned to power, Bar-Lev was appointed as the chairman of the board of directors of Angel Bakery. The Chareidi public is furious about the bizayon to the k’vod HaTorah of the 100-year-old Rosh Yeshivah and a call for a boycott against the Angel Bakery chain unless they dismiss Bar-Lev has been spreading like wildfire.

Ex-minister Omer Bar-Lev at the protest outside the home of HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein.

Protesters threw mannequins outside the homes of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir in Kiryat Arba to “protest” against what they claim is Ben-Gviv’s failure to address the many murders in Arab areas.

The bloody mannequins outside the home of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. (Brothers In Arms)
Protesters blocking the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)



16 Responses

  1. this shows the Erev Rav are not interested in equality or “spreading the burden” if they were they would protest Arab villages who dont serve, they davka protest the gadol hador because they HATE torah and yahadus its not about army or welfare, its the Zionists continued battle to eradicate Torah and learning .

  2. They are forgetting that we never wanted the state or believed in it or ever needed it or got money or enjoyment from it more then if it was New York or the British mandate if there was another Holocaust this is the truth we never had any will it desire for the state of Israel and they are enjoying it from us not we enjoying it from them this is a real shame and chutzpa that they can think to go with they’re dog dirt to this great rabbi and play sheep wolf but the government will soon go for reelection because bachurim do not belong in the army

  3. This demonstrates the desperation of those on the Left. They know they are losing their battle to destroy and and demonise authentic Judaism in Israel and so will plum any depths in a futile attempt to stave off their impending irrelevance.

  4. The more the Zionists attack Torah, its leaders and its learners, the sooner that idol will disappear forever. May it be very, very soon.

  5. If one is willing to a compromise under which Eretz Yisrael would be an autonomous province of an Islamic entity (i.e. return to the pre-World War I status quo, with more political rights for Jews), and complete communal autonomy for Jews (again, the pre-war status quo ante), it is not hypocritical for Hareidim to refuse conscription. It is interesting that under the Ottomans, we weren’t subject to conscription until the last few years before the Ottoman collapse, and the (largely ineffective) extension of conscription to non-Turkish and non-Muslim minorities in fact was a factor in the collapse of the Ottoman regime.

    However if a Hareidi wants full civil rights (unlike the Palestinians, who are lawfully discriminated against), and supports having Medinat Yisrael being an independent state, and in particular, wants any government benefits (i.e. more than what Palestinian Muslims who refuse to serve in the army get), it is HYPOCRITICAL to refuse to serve in the army.

    The only non-hypocritical, halachically reasonable way, to justify non-service in the IDF, is that one agrees with Satmar and Neturei Karta that the zionist state is illegitimate and invalid as a matter of halacha.

  6. How does anyone not understand what hurts them? They send their own children to serve in the army. Some of them have to visit their children on Har Herzl on Yom hazikaron and have an empty seat at their table and an empty place in their hearts forever. They are not asking our children to do any more than they ask of their own children. There are no easy solutions but completely dismissing them and not listening to them is not the Jewish way to deal with this.

  7. Erev Rav –
    75 years of inequality
    75 years of religious humiliation
    75 years of anti Jewish and pro EU and pro US / Palestine judicial favoritism.
    What the heck are you talking about.
    What equality’s you are talking about?
    Elite equality take all?
    Zero sum games?
    Elite equality stealing kids and telling their parents they died during childbirth and giving them to blond and blue eyes?
    Elite equality spying on Jews people who are fighting for Jewish state and telling the enemy?
    Elite equality cutting Peios and force feeding them pig and making them work on shabbos?
    What the heck is equality?

    How much each one of these patsies are getting paid from Lapid collection plate of Biden and the reform movement?
    The most idiotic slogan fit for Lapid, mayor of TelAviv and Antifa.

  8. a מדינה cannot be טמאה. the land of eretz yisroel is holy, but many there today live contrary to the ways of yiddishkeit.

    it is our job to be מקרב them to Hashem and the Torah

  9. I know this comment will most likely not make censorship..but reading the above comments got my blood boiling.. what a chutzpa!!! its hard to believe that these comments are from frum yidden.. such brainwashed unthinking people.. you all live in a sewer supporting the erev rav who continues to say lashon hora against the land..and you lack a jewish heart.. every step in EY is a mitzva..you get that??? the medina in our holy land is not perfect,, not even close…. so what is the news story?? you are not in the conversation!! go to costco and Sit there in your goldena medina of shmutz and feed the sitra achra with your “mitzvos”. Stop talking the satmer nonsense like parrots. If the Satmar Rav was alive today, how do you know what he would say? besides there is neturei karta fools in EY.. at least they are here and not in Flatbush..etc.. etc..

  10. Gadolhadorah
    I couldn’t agree more. It’s incredible how ignorant this Reivin person is. Ben Gurion joined with the Agudah in the coalition for his ten years of being PM and put Israeli Arab citizens under military curfews and rule. What is he saying?!

  11. gadol HaTorah – with small g
    You must be one of Blue Eyes and Blond Hair , repackaged name , with the same duplicity.
    You call fact based atrocities of left “mindless”? And stick a meaningless Hebrew label to whitewash their cause of millions of peoples suffering?
    Why don’t you take trip to Uganda as your father suggested and pretend that you live in hologram of holiness.
    you sir are no gadol and you sir have Despicable mind.

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