A resident of Tel Aviv who submitted a request to the municipality to hold a Yom Ha’atzmaut tefillah on Rothschild Boulevard received a response that the tefillah will only be approved if no mechitzos between men and women are used.
The response came despite the fact that Arabs held an Eid al-Fitr prayer in Tel Aviv on Friday with complete separation between men and women, including physical barriers.
Tel Aviv Deputy Mayor Reuven Lediansky clarified the decision on his Facebook page, writing: “There won’t be a tefillah with mechitzot between men and women in Tel Aviv. Not on Rothschild Boulevard and not anywhere else in the public space. Yesterday an application was received by the Tel Aviv Municipality to hold a tefillah on Yom Ha’atzmauet with mechitzot between men and women. The municipality’s response was that ‘there will be no separation by physical means‼️'”
With the elections around the corner, Lediansky took advantage of the request to boast about his secular agenda to voters, declaring: “I intend to lead a secular front that will ensure the interests of Tel Aviv and you residents – throughout the entire term – a period of five years. I have the energy, determination, and experience to protect a secular and liberal Tel Aviv. No religious coercion, no gender segregation and no religionization!”
In response, Kol B’Ramah reporter Moshe Glassner posted a photo of the Eid al-Fitr prayer, stating: “But the Tel Aviv Municipality is actually attentive to the needs of religion, if of course, you belong to the right religion: This directive does not apply to the Arabs who held the Eid al-Fitr prayer in Tel Aviv last Friday with complete segregation, including barriers…because racism towards Jews is fine, but a separate seating by consent is coercion.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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It is pretty much known that TA is an anti religious city, bordering on being a Jew hating place.
They educate the poople there that we religious are disgusting and terrible people.
But they never meet a charadi.
Now we can all go on mesirus nefesh for Yiddishkeit in “our own state”! (And without the fear of actually getting too hurt)
This will not end well for the deputy mayor.
Not only the beginning of doom & the end for lediansky, but the beginning of doom & the end of Tel Aviv 114 year existence.
Having decided to fight a יום-העצמאות service, was strategically an awful move on their part, because even the modern world shall strongly turn against them.
By not allowing the Metchitzah, he knew orthodox jews won’t organize outdoor events,perhaps he did that to protect them, at this time you must know that there strong radio waves making people sick, some can drop dead in a blink of an eye.
I don’t think this has anything to do with being secular or not. Let me remind you that israelis have the highest number of people jabbed in the word, some of these jabs can make people more vulnerables to those waves.
and this is what certain segments of frum Jews will say hallel for tomorrow morning? Let them have their Zionism we will have our mesorah.
Zetruth, are you Schmendrick’s alter ego?
Doyou eernoticehow terrorist attacks in Tel Aviv are so rare? Hamas knows who their friends are.
@lakewood even if a Jew errs in Zionism, he still deserves the right to daven.
Welcome to the so called Jewish State? Wher Arabs and Muslims have more rights than religious Jews.
Lihejot am Chofshi ben Arzennu a goisch Land not a jewish one with Lapid and Liebermann as heads
If London or NY city would have come up with such a ruling there would be outcry of anti-semitism even from the secular zionists, but in so-called “Jewish” Israel that’s ok!!
lakewoodbt said it very well (not that he needs my haskama). People may think that we are fanatics. I can say for myself that I am not a fanatic at all. If we are a bit rational, we would be asking ourselves; What exactly would be the reason for celebrating? Is this the goal? This whole hallel business boggles my mind. It’s just a total craziness the way I see it. Did the Jewish people even gain access to more land after the war of independence? We lost access to what looks on the map to be around half of Eretz Yisroel. Even after 1967 we still can’t go to many areas in Eretz Yisrael. So much blood was spilled for this! What are we celebrating for? Did the Geulah happen already? Was I not told about it? Maybe YWN forgot to post that Mashiach came and I just don’t know? Klal Yisroel is experiencing so much chevlei Moshiach, so much horrible suffering! Simply have a heart. Hopefully even before I get a chance to post this comment, Moshiach will have come already and then we can celebrate!
Spelling error Mechitza (not Metchizah)
No difference
Not sure why the response to these articles is always about Zionism. Celebrating the State of Israel is not about any individual or about Zionism. It is celebrating the gift Hashem has given us to return to our land. The State is simply the means by which it was given to us. Yes, if anti religious laws are passed that deserves criticism, but Hakarat Hatov for what we were given remains an obligation. If you’ve benefited at all from Torat EY this obligation falls on you to recognize the good Hashem has done.
If we had to have this final stage of golus that began 75 years ago, we mourn over it like we mourn over all the rest of golus. We would have wished of course, that instead of so many Yidden returning to Eretz Yisroel after WWII under the current government or any other government for that matter, that it would have happened with the coming of Moshiach back then. Alas, it didn’t happen and we are still anxiously awaiting his arrival everyday. (the fact that there are so many Yidden in Eretz Yisroel and that there is so much Torah being learned in Eretz Yisroel is obviously a most beautiful thing) There is so much horrible suffering during this final moment of chevlei Moshiach though. One fact is certain, obvious, and clear that no one could argue with and that is; Any Jew that wants the Medina to just continue forever, simply doesn’t want Moshiach for the very simple fact that it is occupying the seat of Malchus Beis Dovid. So worshiping and believing in the Medina is obviously heresy. We want it to be replaced immediately with Everything that we’ve been waiting for, for the past almost 2000 years and that is, Malchus Shamayim, Malchus Beis Dovid and Binyan Beis Hamiksosh.
Rome’s edicts killed and displaced over million Jews crucified them.
Greek’s edicts enslave and displace Jews and wiped them out.
TA Mayor edict with a Israeli flag want to murder the soul of the entire Jewish nation. Supported by EU and US NGOS
A56: we returned to the land way before 1948. Jewish population in EY has been growing since before Rav Yosef Karo
user176:
You have it totally backwards. Zionism and its Zionist State have damaged Judaism in unimaginable ways. Jews were already moving to the holy land decades before the Zionists invaded there at the turn of the 20th century. The Zionists invaded and thereby lit a fire in the region and made it impossible for Jew to live there in peace.
To take an almost irrelevantly small example, the Kosel was accessible to Jews until the Zionists founded their State in 1948. Only after the Zionists founded their State did Jews lose access to the Kosel.
Since Halacha only requires a Mechitza at a regular Shul what’s the problem?
A one time outdoor minyan does not require a Mechitza.
doom777 I know. I was responding, however, to user176 Who spoke about us returning to the land. If I were to talk about the Old Yishuv user176 would respond by saying that after the holocaust millions more came to Eretz Yisroel and that is true. As I mentioned I agree with user 176 that Yiddin living and learning in Eretz Yisroel is a wonderful thing. I also didn’t say that it could have happened without a Jewish state because user176 probably would respond that if there was a non Jewish government they wouldn’t have allowed so many Jews to return. That is debatable and at this point doesn’t really matter and is totally not my point at all. My point was that regardless of under which government all of these Yidden came to Eretz Yisroel, we should not be celebrating the beginning of a new and very painful chapter in golus and we should want this chapter to end immediately and not worship Zionism because it would be going against tzipisah l’yeshua and also because of other problems some of which I mentioned in my first post (I don’t know if you read that one) and other posts elsewhere. Hakatan and others have also pointed some of these things out. Hashem for whatever reason wanted that there should be this final chapter before the geulah sheleima as we see that is what happened. It’s simply a fact. We wish all Jews would have returned long ago to Eretz Yisroel with Moshiach Tzidkeinu. Lets beg Hashem that it happens immediately. We are almost there but why should we be in this golus for even one more moment?!
Hakatan. Your comment is a slap in the face to Hashems hashgacha. Stop looking at what would have or could have been and just be thankful for what is. The positives of the State outweigh the negatives by a far margin. And maybe Jews would be living more peacefully had we not had control over the State but we would not have anywhere near the religious freedom that we have today.
@HaKAtan – I am quite certain, but I could be wrong, that under Turkish AND British rule, access to the Kosel was very restricted.
It can disappear and a new city rebuilt. Shameful. What you did and do period to religiously motivated souls is beyond reproach. Just trust not to be near when you cry.
Kuvult – I was thinking about that too. The whole Yom Ha’atzmaut/Hallel thing nauseates me so much so that was my main focus but if they want to daven with the long tachanun and lein Eicha without a mechitzah it’s fine and good.
A56: “we should not be celebrating the beginning of a new and very painful chapter in golus” epitome of hafarat hatov. If God doesn’t give it to you exactly how you want it it’s a galut. Really a disgrace.