An unlikely figure attended a tribute ceremony arranged by UTJ chairman Moshe Gafni on Monday for volunteers of the coronavirus crisis center established by UTJ at the height of the coronavirus crisis.
Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid attended the event and even addressed the crowd, saying: “Not many people know this but I’m a descendant of the Shelah Hakodesh. I don’t think he’s happy with me when he looks down from above but when we look at him above, we’re very proud of him. The Shelah has a famous tefillah to never be envious but in violation of his tefillah, I’ll say that I’m jealous of the volunteers here who tirelessly worked to help others during the pandemic.”
“I see people here whose hearts are in the right place. I could say that I mostly see Chareidi men here but what I see are people who assisted others at a time of need, people who care and went out of their comfort zones to support others.”
Lapid, who is currently trying to form a coalition with the anti-Netanyahu bloc before his mandate expires, then jokingly said: “It was important for me to come here despite the fact that I’m busy now trying to send all of you [the Chareidi parties] to the opposition.” His statement was met with boos from the audience: “We hope you don’t succeed!”
In conclusion, Lapid said: “It was important to me to thank you. All of Am Yisrael loves and respects you for your efforts.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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6 Responses
I wonder which descendant didn’t say the tefillah and then his kid went off
It’s all politics, nothing more.
WOW. What a busha!
maybe the Shlah HaKodesh will give Yair Lapid the failure he deserves for bringing anti Jewish legislation in Israel.
The optics of Netanyahu serving so long is bad in so many ways. Here are 2. It implies Israel has a short bench. If Israel is great the people should be great, and a replacement for a single civil servant should be common to find. And it looks like there are no term limits.
To be honest I know nothing about it, it may be that the government is so controlled by EU and CIA spies that Netanyahu is all that’s keeping Israel from a horrible fate some have devised for it. It’s like with all his flaws at least you know Netanyahu is not a Soros/Koch/EU/Qatar/Erdo/CIA/Kerry spy.
E. There are obviously some sparks in his neshomo waiting to be fanned into life, and maybe by establishing an around the clock mishmar at the Shelah’s kever to daven for Yair ben Shulamit to do teshuva that would help the process. Even invite him to come join them now and then, e.g. his birthday (18 Cheshvan) and his father’s yahrzeit (27 Iyar). אין הדבר עומד בפני התשובה.