Police and undercover border police preempted the annual chilul Hashem at Kikar Shabbos, the burning of the Israeli flag, an act which succeeds in fueling the sinas chinam between frum and non-frum citizens of Israel on Memorial and Independence Days.
This year there were enough police on hand Tuesday night, the eve of 3 Iyar 5772 when the Memorial Day siren sounded to stop the annual flag burning. Yes, there were shouts, a few carried signs decrying Zionism and the state, and Kikar Shabbos was closed for a few brief minutes while a handful of zealots carried on their protest.
When participants realized they were outnumbered, they brought reinforcements. Apparently children were sent to shout “Nazi” at police but Baruch Hashem; this too was unsuccessful in enticing others to join in.
There was no photo op for the national flag was not burned and life returned to normal shortly after 8:00pm. Most Meah Shearim residents thanked police for keeping the thugs at bay and permitting them to live their lives without the unwanted spectacle that in past years was associated with Memorial Day.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Listen if u gonna live in a country at least apreachiate that you have paved roads and electricity and running water and gas because even if you did have what you want an ARAB government there would be maybe a handful of Jews living in the holy land so be makir tov
chilul haShem? no! stupid? maybe.
We basically need these nuts to remind us that the state of Israel is not complete and will not be until we are all observant and the state is run by rules of the Torah.
You say that it causes friction between frum and non-frum people. That means all frum people support the action and all non-frum people don’t, which, 1. is contradicted at the end of the article when you said that residents thanked the police for stopping the hooligans – residents are most likely frum, and 2) is plainly not true, there are frum people who are both for and against such actions.
All it takes is an unnecessary, idiotic act by a bunch of overzealous hooligans to ruin it for the rest of us. I’m glad cooler heads prevailed.
if u live in eretz yisroel its only because of the people that let it happen stop doing a chillul hashem and think you are so frum by burning flags
i was punkt there this morning at 11, when the fireworks started. these nuts were dancing in the kikar, while all the cameras were aimed at them.
i personally also don’t believe in following a ritual not dictated by Torah sh’Be’al Peh and/or mesora (they may be the same), but definitely not to spit in the face of those who are mourning.
Hashem should send us the ultimate yeshua – amen.
Why is it a “chilul hashem” to burn the Israeli Rag a/k/a Flag, please explain yourself
Of course, if the state eventually fails, either by getting the yishuv destroyed by its need for continuous warfare with the goyim, or by sucessfully transforming its citizens into “modern” hilonim leading to an internal collapse due to extreme decadence, then it will turn out that those who stood up to denounce the state will be remembered in the way that, some would say “le-havdil”, Germany now remembers as sainted heroes those who out of conviction and against their interests denounced the Nazis in Germany during the war (and were reviled as traitors at the time).
R Amram Blau ZTL would fly black flags on independence day, although I don’t know if he burned the Israeli flag.