The Israel Tax Authority has suspended the processing of war compensation claims for Bnei Brak residents following Thursday’s attack on Tax Authority inspectors in the city’s Vizhnitz neighborhood.
In a letter sent Friday to Bnei Brak Mayor Chanokh Zeibert, Israel Tax Authority Director Shay Aharonovich announced that he had ordered an immediate freeze on all compensation claims related to damages from Operations “Am K’Lavi” and “Sha’agas HaAri” until the municipality issues a public condemnation of the attack.
The decision comes a day after Tax Authority inspectors were assaulted while carrying out official duties in Bnei Brak. Video from the scene showed a crowd surrounding the inspectors’ vehicle, pelting it with eggs and damaging its windows before police officers arrived to rescue the employees.
According to Aharonovich, the inspectors were attacked while performing their work and required police intervention to safely leave the area. He noted that this was the second recent violent incident targeting Tax Authority inspectors and criticized the municipality for failing to publicly condemn the attack.
Aharonovich wrote that Tax Authority employees will not return to work in Bnei Brak until the city issues a clear and unequivocal public condemnation. As a result, personnel from the Compensation Fund have also been instructed to halt processing of war damage claims submitted by Bnei Brak residents.
The Tax Authority director also requested that the municipality publish its condemnation in media outlets serving the Chareidi community. Until such a statement is issued, the freeze on compensation claims will remain in effect.
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What sort of justice is this:- האיש אחד יחטא ועל כל העדה תקצוף
Collective punishment once again in the apartheid state Israel!
At the same time the tax-authority should publish condemnation of Baharav’s order to strip Yeshivos from charity status.
these thieving chayot deserve what happens
oy, can we please publish the name of the yeshiva that taught or is teaching these people? We need to call these schools to account for this.
sue
DrGoy – This is a democracy with laws right? Everyone has to follow the law, that’s what you say all the time. So all of a sudden illegal collective punishment is OK as long as it’s against the group you hate? Less than a week before Tisha B’Av. תתבייש לך
AAQ – What about the name of the Yeshiva that taught the Chiloni kid who stabbed his classmate over Shabbos?
“Aharonovich wrote that Tax Authority employees will not return to work in Bnei Brak until the city issues a clear and unequivocal public condemnation.”
Hmmmmm… Don’t say that too loud or a number of Chiloni majority cities that have an active, um, “cash economy” will imitate them in order to get the same “punishment”…
YYA, I hope that chiloni kid did not learn in the yeshiva. If he did, whether charedi or hesder – of course, publish. Maybe yeshiva that dropped his grandfather. Chofetz Chaim famously refused to shake hands of the Rav of the town where Trotsky grew up.
I don’t think pointing out that chilonim, unsurprisingly, have problem somehow absorbs religious Jews from their own obligations. I don’t fully know what happened here, but it sounds like the authority are frustrated that community does not condemn these people and thus encourages their behavior. This sounds reasonable.