Just hours ahead of the midnight expiration of the Tal Law on Tuesday night, pro-draft activists were in Bnei Brak handing out literature and flowers calling on chareidim to serve in the IDF.
With the frum velt focused on syiumei hashas this week, the flyers were viewed as particularly offensive and it did not take long for a verbal confrontation to errupt. Residents grabbed the handouts and tossed them as well as tossing the flowers as they viewed the actions of the activists as an intentional act of provocation.
Ynet quotes “Moshe” as telling the ‘sucker’s tent’ activists that “For every 100 soldiers you bring to study torah in beis medrash I will bring you 100 chareidim to serve in the army”.
The activists explained they chose to come at this time since the Tal Law was expiring and the chareidim are now compelled to serve. Residents shouted at them, and some threw items at them as well as the meeting escalated into an unfriendly environment.
The activists did not have a response when asked if they also handed out flyers and flowers in the Israeli Arab municipality of Um el-Fahm.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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6 Responses
With the expiration of the Tal Law – hostility & hatred will increase with violence erupting from every side. Some type of regulation has to go into effect.
The most responsible way to respond to these provocators would be to either totally ignore them or invite them for a Shabis meal. Ask them if they would like to taste a little bit of Yidishkeit, a little bit of what their great grand fathers were moiser nefesh for. After all what future does a secular state have, considering our only claim to the land which is Torah.
“Shivyon haNettel” – sharing the burden equally. Rav Leff pointed out that secular Israel looks to the US as the prime example of democracy. Then he mentioned that the last time the US had a mandatory draft [please correct me if I’m wrong, but the point’s the same], during the Vietnam War era, there was still an exemption for Divinity students, including those in yeshivos. So they should take their example from the good ole USA!
“The activists did not have a response when asked if they also handed out flyers and flowers in the Israeli Arab municipality of Um el-Fahm”
What does this have to do with anything?
If you didin’t take the money from them all these years you could have said “Not your honey, nor your sting”. Now, that you have taken money for all these years telling the story that “We are learning for the sake of the State…”(R”L!!)
Enjoy those flowers!!
#2: According to you, our great grandfathers’ mesiras nefesh didn’t include defending their home country, so you could be alive today to study in yeshiva?