Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan wants to see Israel Police included in the tefilla recited in shuls for the well-being of IDF soldiers. He explains police are constantly on the frontline of the battle against terrorism. Minister Erdan turned to the Chief Rabbis of Israel to question why the nation’s police are excluded from the mi’sheberach recited on Shabbos for IDF soldiers.
The current text recited by many shuls was arranged by the late chief rabbi, Rabbi Shlomo Goren, who did not make mention of police specifically.
Erdan added that his request speaks also in the name of Police Chief Roni Alshich and the department’s chief rabbi, Rabbi Rami Barchaiyahu, calling this “a moral obligation” to the department.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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I always think of the police when we say “anshei habitachon”, which also covers security guards at schools and security guards hired by tours. Do we really need to mention all of them specifically?
So will this now become mandatory? Unleash the new Prayer Police? Where are all the “separation of Church and State” experts?
Prayer for police in Israel?
Prayer for an organization that frames and entraps innocent boys, places them in jail and house arrest for a crime that the police orchestrated?
Prayer for a police that violates the State of Israel’s own interrogation laws and then lies in order to continue the arrest of a boy that they framed?
We have proof of everything that I wrote.
Yeaston: what are you saying? Don’t you believe that the Israel Police is part of the “beginning of the flowering of our redemption…?”