Chareidi politicians and media outlets are slamming Israel Police after they illegally entered an apartment in Bnei Brak to stop an online Hallel that was being broadcast live on the internet. In attached videos, you will see a police officer climbing down from a ladder to a balcony outside an apartment in which singers Yoeli and Ruli Dikman were performing. There were a total o 4 people in the “Minyan”, as thousands watched from their homes online. Police had no search warrant to make this “raid” whatsoever.
The officer walks past them to open the door to let other policemen into the apartment, before returning to take the microphone and unplug the musical equipment. Video from another angle shows a group of officers repeatedly ringing the doorbell and knocking on the door of the apartment.
“This break-in is outrageous and unacceptable,” Bnei Brak Mayor Avraham Rubinstein says in response.
Police say officers were sent to the apartment following complaints about excessive noise coming from speakers on a balcony. After the officers left, police say, the noise resumed and because no one opened the door, the officer had to enter the apartment through the balcony.
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this is typical for israel.This people dont to anything against the law,and the police has nothing else to do to disturb them because they religious people.
Nowwhere in Europe this would happen.
Why is this so shocking? These people were causing a public nuisance by broadcasting loudly from their outside balcony and disturbing their neighbors. Is that chessed? It is wonderful to try and raise the spirits of others especially at this time but not to disturb others. The current Israeli regulations forbid gatherings of more than two unrelated people. We need ten for a minyan, five will not do. Two together are permitted, four are not. It is wonderful that these two singers wanted to bring simcha with a live Hallel. Their mistake was to broadcast it loudly from their balcony and bother others. If they had just broadcast live you can be sure the Police would not have become involved.
The police version is a straight up pack of lies. They did not knock first nor come once and then return. All a figment of the official Israeli Police baloney speaker’s imagination.
They should have been heavily fined and not just warned. What they did was feed their egos by destroying the peace and quiet of their neighbors. Unfortunately, there are also people like that on Purim.
@Yankele1, you are motzi shem ra on all Israelis. In order to atone you must get forgiveness from all the millions of people you defamed.