Ein Geidi area nature reserve officials are filing charges against members of a group of some 100 yeshiva students from Bnei Brak, who they accuse attacked them with rocks and started fires in the Nachal David nature reserve without authorization.
According to a Ladat.net report, the group from Bnei Brak arrived at an area hostel. During the night, they decided to take a hike in the area without obtaining the proper permits as required. When the inspectors arrived and instructed them to extinguish the fires, they were attacked with a hail of stones. Two inspectors were injured. Police were summoned but their response was somewhat delayed.
The nature officials decided not to permit the event to pass and they filed complaints with police on Sunday.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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These boys are just plain dumb! There are wild animals (snakes, coyotes etc). They are just being protected!
Did these 100 bachurim travel to Ein Gedi without chaperons?? If there were chaperons they should be held accountable.
“accuse”?… “decided not to permit the event to pass..”? Seems like YWN already decided that what these yeshiva students did was not a big deal, that they should be excused.
Permits for hikes are very important – besides for natural dangers (mountain lions, rocks, ravines, dont forget our little terrorist problem… Not to mention that the parks department needs to keep tabs on the reserve.. How about starting fires in areas which can become huge forest fires? Did they have the proper equipment for extinguishing the fire on hand? And throwing stones at the authorities?????!!!!!!!!!!
People need to learn to follow rules – even if they feel that the people making and enforcing them are less of a human being than they are because they are not frum or learning.
What kind of b’nai torah are we raising?
Pelting people with stones?
My 4 year old knows better.
We are worse than the palestinians.
Good. These young men need to see that their irresponsible and dangerous actions have consequences. And who was it who found and rescued a number of yeshiva bochrim who were hiking in the desert without enough water last summer? Secular guides from the chevra l’haganat hateva, just like these they threw stones at. A shande. Don’t they teach derech eretz in our yeshivos anymore? Will one of our leaders please take some achrayus for this plague?
It’s time to start teaching our children what bishvilie nivra haolam means.
only teach gemara thats how you make burim!!1
I see that even the usual apologists are staying far away from this one. Perhaps there is a dawning realization that when we spend our days teaching these boys how much space there can be between pieces of schach and not about simple menchlichkeit, we do them and all of klal yisroel a disservice.
to yichusdik:
since you mention it, these are often the same people who take brush, branches, etc from such nature preserves (and other private property) without permission. they claim its “leshem mitzvah”. but they conveniently forget its “lulav hagazul”.
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the problem is that their rabbonim (the chaperones mentioned) dont do nothing about it!
it meaning their behavior AND their lulav hagazul!
and since they do nothing about it, they are also responsible!
yichusdik,
there is no stirah between being a talmid chacham and a mentch…they are one and the same.
the problem is that we’re not teaching this
to markjeremy,
Never, ever say we are worse than Palestinians. And by the way, what name were you given at your bris?
Mrs L.: We are held to a higher standard than the Palestinians. When we don’t meet our obligations to Hakodosh Boruch hu, he will bring us lower than all the umos haolom – half of what we read in the Neviim warn us of this. Our obligation – and our leaders know this – is to live a Torah life of ahavah, not sinoh. Of open doors to our brothers and sisters, not high fences that we fling our refuse over. If we are blessed to live in Eretz Yisroel, we must remember that the very hills and mountains are witnesses for our character. If we abuse them, and abuse those who protect them, we are making a poor case in the beis din shel maalah.
It also seems to me that your concern for markjeremy’s name is untoward. Do you think it makes an iota of difference to a man’s character or lineage if he goes by an english name? Do some research. Find out where names like Feivel, Feivush, bendet, mendel and many others come from. When you find out that the heilige name Feivish comes from the Greek sun-god Phoebus Apollo, you won’t be so quick to judge.