Various Yom Ha’atzmaut ceremonies were held across Israel on Thursday as Israel’s Fire and Rescue Service continued to battle the fires that began in the Jerusalem hills on Wednesday.
Photos taken of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at the President’s Medal of Excellence ceremony in Jerusalem aroused curiosity due to a sight not seen since COVID days—the prime minister’s bodyguards with masks on their faces.
The masks were not worn to protect against a new COVID variant but against the ancient and deadly antisemitism variant. The bodyguards, who are part of the Shin Bet’s personal security unit, were instructed to wear masks at public events to protect themselves from possible arrest warrants issued abroad, Walla reports.
For the same reason, no close-up photos of IDF soldiers were taken at the various ceremonies.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Like Bob Grant would have said, “it’s sick out there and getting sicker!”
“The masks were not worn to protect against a new COVID variant but against the ancient and deadly antisemitism variant.”
This has nothing to do with antisemitism, and it is dangerous and counterproductive to make that claim when the truth is that it is simply anti-Zionism.
Israel is the Zionist, not Jewish, “State”.