The Knesset’s Committee on Immigration, Absorption, and Diaspora Affairs on Wednesday held its ninth follow-up discussion on the involvement of the Israeli government in the rescue of children from the Lev Tahor cult in Guatemala.
The Welfare Ministry has appointed an employee to the position of field director who will be responsible for Lev Tahor child victims when they arrive in Israel.
During the meeting, the committee requested to receive an official document detailing the preparations of welfare authorities for the absorption of Lev Tahor cult survivors in Israel.
Orit Cohen Amir, a representative of the families of Lev Tahor victims, said: “You can see that things are moving in the Guatemalan government and judicial system. I feel that there is more hope today for the children and their family members. However, many children and survivors have nowhere to go in Israel. Every cult survivor needs to know that they have a home to live in. It is very important to bring the survivors to Israel, but it is even more important to ensure their rehabilitation when they arrive in the country.”
Attorney Meirav Marx from the Foreign Ministry said, “We are in the final stretch of signing an agreement with the Jewish Agency. We are making great efforts to recruit suitable people for the dedicated positions to manage the project of returning the cult survivors to Israel.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Will they cut their Peyos off like they did to the yeminite children. Will they supply kosher food that’s kosher. In Tel Aviv and Haifa there is hardly a kosher restaurant.
@heinishe probably. so why don’t you step up and show the world how it’s done, instead of kvetching?
The government is just itching for an excuse to take over children’s education, even from across the world. What does the Israeli government have to do with people so far away? Who made them the international custodian?
Heimishe Guy – In Tel Aviv there are 515 registered shuls, aside from minyanim in offices etc., as well as more than 200 daily shiurim in Daf Hayomi (according to Rav Yisroel Meir Lau, the former Rav of the city). There are also full-fledged ‘minyan factories’ active around the clock, at least one of which (that I have seen myself, maybe there are more) also offers shiurei Torah or chavrusah learning 18 hours a day. (That was the place a terrorist tried to bomb last summer, and ended up blowing himself up outside the building…) I don’t know how many there are in Haifa, you can ask one of the local Vizhnitzer Chassidim. In Haifa there is also a beautiful shul carved into a cave on Har HaKarmel where there is an ancient mesorah that Eliyahu Hanavi davened in that place before confronting the Neviei HaBaal and bringing down fire from Shomayim on the Mizbeach (which was also located in Haifa). And yes, there are Badatz restaurants in both cities. כפלח הרימון רקתך ומדברך נאוה
Are you are all so incredibly stupid or just naive?
Whichever you prefer.
Abused children are not frum
They are controlled
If they get healthy mentally, and learn to make choices, they have a shot at being shomrei Torah. Right now they are dysfunctional robots who spout whatever bits of Emes and Sheker that have been programmed into them
Shlomie boruch
I met last week a member of Lev Tahor. Turns out he is the grandson of rabbi Helbran the founder. I gave him a hundred bucks. He spoke only Yiddish and Hebrew. Nice guy.