It what may be a frightening new standard, security personnel at Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Center prohibited a chareidi male from entering, fearing he will begin approaching males to ask them to put on tefilin.
The male stopped at a mall entrance explained to the guards “I never in my life asked someone to put on tefilin and this is not my intention here. I simply want to visit the mall and I happen to have my tefilin with me. If you see me trying to put tefilin on anyone then throw me out.”
The guards explained “these are our orders. We cannot permit you to enter. If you wish, go up to the office of the head of security and let him permit you to enter. That is what we can do.”
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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24 Responses
What a sickening situation
Really really sick. If the mall did that in America there would be demonstration and more.In Eretz Yisrael you can be consider a criminal if you are frum.
Retarded! This country has gone so much downhill, it’s sickening. Probably a Non-Jewish Russian guard also.
Next time you hear Netanyahu say “the only democracy in the middle east” think about this…
I give the guard credit for doing his job and offering the man to go to his superior.
But the story itself is uniquely a Zionist one; only in Israel, the erroneously dubbed “Jewish State”, is a man’s Tefillin a security concern because he might ask someone to put on the Tefillin.
I was once stopped from entering Malha Mall in Jerusalem because they thought I was going to shnor. I WASN’T!
I happened to work in an office across from the mall and was attempting to buy a gift for my wife.
We harass soldiers and women on buses, what can we expect them to do in return? This is our own doing.
It seems that the fear in Israel of someone becoming frum is worse then allot of people will chas v’sholom get killed by a bomb. This this is called a yidishe medinah?
antisemitism is alive and well, unfortunately, in Israel.
Yup, this is the type of Country that Lapid/Piron are proud of!
The chilonim are so scared of the chareidim, that they tread on their own principle of freedom of religion.
The chilonim realize that if a yid does one mitzvah, such as putting on tefilin his way of life is changed forever.
We have to try harder to get our non obdervant brothers to do miyzvot.
Don’t stone them with hatred, tefilin them, with love.
MarktMan: Please dont use the word “we”.
With that kind of bending over to defend whats happening, you are obviously not frum.
The bigger question is: Do they also stop the meshumadim trying to put shesi v’eirev’s on people there?
If they don’t, then call in Yad L’Achim!
to market man you always have can answer as to why non religious people do what they do and it’s always the fault of the religious
Was he also carrying a washing cup so they can wash their hands before putting on teffilin?
They call it Jewish because of ethnicity, not religion. And, PLEASE, don’t start with “there is no such thing”.
noone is mentioning the audacity of a jew to shame g-d and his torah and mitzvos.. by saying…
“I never in my life asked someone to put on tefilin and this is not my intention here. I simply want to visit the mall and I happen to have my tefilin with me. If you see me trying to put tefilin on anyone then throw me out.”
how could such apikorsus come out of someones mouth like that thats like denying judaism and moshes torah…
im not saying everyone is a “kiruv professional” but to say i would never connect myself to the tefillin!
what have we come to im afraid what the malachim think of some of us to think this way!!
In response to MarktMan
you must be a member of Bennet’s party, that party is out to destroy frummer yidden. All the Gedolie Yisroel said that Mafdal is the biggest danger for Benei Torah & erlicher yidden, people like MarktMan & Bennet prove the point, they are more dangerous than Lapid
Don’t complain. They haven’t starting setting up separate bathrooms and park benches for us. Yet.
To all posters who are losing their mind over this item : this is a BOGUS story! I don’t believe it ever happened !and I remember clearly a similar story a year ago and it was DEBUNKED! so, please ,hold on to your anti-zionist yarmulkas- it is a bogus story!
Moderators Response: Oh, it’s a real story. It was videotaped too. And it’s on the Kikar website. The only thing debunked, is your comment.
See-ya.
Chill, Baron (#18). He never said he WOULD never. He said he never DID. It is a statement of fact.
Who’s side are you on?
If I’m not mistaken it is only Chabad that puts tfillin on fraay yidden in malls. Please say it as it is “Chabad male barred from entering…” not Chareidi.
23 is right, it is only Chabadnikim that do this and 16, they don’t worry about washing. Maybe a Chabadnik would like to explain why.