Har Nof Chief Rabbi David Yosef Shlita during a dedication for a new mikve in the Yerushalayim neighborhood commented on the current national government. “In their eyes, we are class four citizens. We are not taken into account [for they say if] a frum Jew cannot live without a mikve, then he shouldn’t live!”
The rav spoke out against the current government and its anti-chareidi policies. He spoke of the significance of building mikvaos and this should be clear to all, but unfortunately it is not. “We are entering a difficult period, very difficult, and we hope it will be short lived. We are fighting for our very existence.”
In his comments about the Finance Ministry Rav David added, “If there need funds to bring a number of blacks to play basketball there is sufficient funding but when it comes to money for a shul or a mikve tahara there is no money!”
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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7 Responses
He didn’t say blacks, he used the Hebrew n word.
#1- the Israeli eqivalent of the “n” word is “Hareidi”.
Kush is the name of an ancient empire in the area of what is now Sudan and Ethiopia, so the term is hardly perjorative in any language.
Why can’t the communities pay for the mikvaos themselves, like everywhere else in the world? (PS: The gov’t shouldn’t be paying for basketball either.)
I guess the settlers than are #5 on the list of hated. Can you imagine being a Charedi and settler? Then you are 5 and 1/2.
Are you also going to say that an Arab can’t be an anti-semite because they are also semitic? If you would know Hebrew you would know that that word it’s a bad word.
#4- Imagine being a Sefardi, Chareidi and a settler — they probably would put wanted posters of you all over North Tel Aviv.
The article quotes Rav Yosef as saying, “In their eyes, we are class four citizens.” In other words, this is in the eyes of the Israeli government. In all seriousness, what does he think the government would consider to be the first three classes? My guess is that they are Jews, non-arab non-Jews, and finally Arabs. Or perhaps he does not mean “four” literally?