Following the tragedy at the Chareidi daycare in the Romema neighborhood of Jerusalem early Monday afternoon, former Interior Minister MK Moshe Arbel of Shas was the first Knesset member to note that “the writing was on the wall.”
The incident occurred at a private Chareidi daycare in Romema, which was operating without a license.
Arbel said, “In the State of Israel, the children of illegal infiltrators are entitled to daycares and kindergartens. But in the name of the fight against the Chareidi public, the children of avreichim are expelled from supervised daycares.”
‘The cries of innocent babies and toddlers call out from the earth. We must all stop the persecution—children’s lives must be kept outside of any political struggle!’”
Former Welfare Minister, Shas MK Yoav Ben Tzur said: “In the determined struggle I waged to continue subsidies for daycare centers for avreichim, I warned and cried out in dozens of documents to the Attorney General’s Office about the grave danger of canceling subsidies for supervised daycare centers and pushing thousands of families into unsupervised daycares.”
“Sadly, today the concern proved to be a true outcry. The writing was on the wall. Helpless babies paid with their lives because of forceful and irresponsible decisions that harm helpless babies first and foremost.”
Journalist Yisrael Cohen said, “The blood is on their hands! Just a reminder that the Attorney General and the judicial system pushed an entire Chareidi public to the wall, canceled daycare subsidies for Chareidi toddlers, and parents were forced to move them to private daycares. Today’s tragic incident is the painful and bitter result.”
Shas Chairman Rabbi Aryeh Deri addressed the daycare tragedy in Jerusalem:
“My heart breaks at the sight of infants being evacuated to intensive care. We share in the profound sorrow of the families and pray for the recovery of the injured.
With all the pain, it must be said clearly: daycare centers must not be operated without supervision! ונשמרתם מאוד לנפשותיכם.
At the same time, a deep reckoning is required. Who can say, ’ידינו לא שפכו את הדם הזה? When a very large population is pushed all at once into distress, people are forced to seek alternative solutions, and the consequences can be harsh and bitter.”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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14 Responses
why should those who do not serve the State expect benefits from the State?
Complete and total hogwash! This particular unlicensed daycare has been operating for 30 years before any ruling from the AG or the Supreme Court!
There are literally hundreds of Charedi illegal (and often dangerous) daycares in Israel because the absence of safety regulations and income tax helps keep costs and prices down.
The parents who send their children know they are trading safety for cost.
And the AG/Supreme Court didn’t sanction children; they sanctioned healthy adults who lacked the legal standing to continue getting a daycare subsidy.
How about looking inward for a change instead of blaming the State, whose authority you don’t accept, and for whom you have zero appreciation?
I don’t know if blaming the fact that chareidim couldn’t send their kids to supervised daycare is the real issue. Even private daycares operating without license could have bypassed trouble if only they ran daycares with proper human care. What happened here and the pics and clips going viral showing the abuse and absurdity in this daycare is beyond human comprehension. Over heating the daycare, pilling babies and toddlers one on the other, putting babies to sleep right near germs/dirt toilets is not human… it’s abuse to the extreme level and warrants full punishment. How could these abusive carers face innocent parents daily knowing how they treat innocent babies? It’s beyond me. 🤮🤮🤮
What is wrong with you people??
Just bc the government doesn’t subsidize doesn’t mean you stuff 53 kids in a gan and put them horrible conditions. This is great I’ll open up a gan take 1,000 kids keep them in my machsan with horrible living conditions and if something goes wrong I’ll blame the evil government. This is crazy. We need to wake up and fast.
It doesn’t occur to anybody that maybe things/WE have to change.
אִוֶּלֶת אָדָם תְּסַלֵּף דַּרְכּוֹ, וְעַל יְהֹוָה יִזְעַף לִבּוֹ
It’s about time we stop blaming everyone else for our stupidity.
The cynicism of the comments by the MKs quoted is breathtaking.
an Israeli Yid
The same apikorsim Here to publicly tell us they don’t value learning And that it doesn’t contribute anything to the country, when we know that it’s what keeps the world standing. I don’t see you complaining that the Arabs are getting everything
enlightened yidd
why do Arabs who don’t serve the state receive benefits from the state?
Arabs are a danger to the state and they receive, chareidim are an asset to the state-
except to enlightened Jews, al achas kama vekama they should receive
It’s disheartening seeing people sitting in comfort, and disciplining those who can’t. Legal daycare is expensive, and pretty much eats up the minimal salary people make in Israel, especially if you have more than one child. Thus they are forced to use cheaper sub-par daycare. As Israel is a socialist country, daycare is part of people’s rights, and the government removed it to punish the Chareidim.
They even took it away from ones that weren’t eligible to serve based on their age or whatever status quo. What happened to all the feminists crying for women’s rights to work? They did nothing when all these women had to give up their jobs because of no child care. And now everyone will fry them to the moon for seeking an alternative. Reserve your anger for the terrorists of the Supreme Court and the Arabs blood sucking Society dry
Talking to my sister about this. As a mom of 3 BH, I sent them all to playgroup. I knew the rooms, I knew the property, I went inside and saw what was going on. Where are the parents of these kids? Did they not see the inhuman conditions that we are seeing? We just got a glimpse in the small newsclips of that insane apartment. Did those parents not see what they were dropping their kids off in? Where is their responsibility in all of this?
Ah, Chareidim. No achruyus for their own actions or for anything bad that’s ever happened to them, since the beginning of history. Gotta love it.
I’m glad a million arabs have safer daycares and full subsidies even though they don’t join military or national service. Plus tax free income, scholarships for college, fully funded Quran teaching schools, and building privileges with inspectors looking the other way. It’s really a fair Society. Eretz Yishmael
Does anyone commenting here know how much a ‘licensed’ daycare in Israel costs for those ineligible for subsidies? (Which is really a racket raking in money from the subsidies at taxpayer expense and artificially inflating the price of daycare, while not necessarily providing better conditions…) But hey, why not comment?
The best option in terms of actual quality of care usually is a private playgroup for up to 10 kids = משפחתון which have fewer regulations and charge more than the illegal daycares but less than the licensed ones = מעון (But then they can’t collect from the subsidy racket…)
Reb emes is correct.
Arabs get fully supported by the Israeli pork eating government. Arabs can build illegally all over the place. Jews cant. I choose America as my homeland till mossiach arrives. Now I see how right satmar was. Jews are so desperate for a few dollars in Israel they are willing to spy for Iran.