A left-wing storm arose following Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich’s joint statement on Motzei Shabbos in response to the Moody’s rating agency’s credit rating forecast, in which they wrote that “Israel’s economy is stable and strong and b’ezrat Hashem will remain so.”
The use of the term “b’ezrat Hashem” infuriated many left-wing opponents of the government, who launched a Twitter storm mocking the term.
Former finance committee chairman Alex Kushnir (Yisrael Beiteinu) responded: “Economy ‘b’ezrat Hashem’, security ”b’ezrat Hashem’, cost of living ‘b’ezrat Hashem’, governance ”b’ezrat Hashem’.”
A social media user wrote: “There are no words, this is how a country is run – ‘b’ezrat Hashem.’ In 2023, a public office holder who uses the phrase ‘b’ezrat Hashem’ in his official response is simply unfit for office.”
Another person tweeted: “A country of lunatics and worshipers of gods.”
Education Minister Yoav Kisch (Likud) responded: “Yes, ‘b’ezrat Hashem.’ These are not crude words. These words are not a substitute for hard work, dedication, contemplation, and effort – they complement them. I write this as a secular and liberal person. Anyone who is so astounded by these two words, ‘b’ezrat Hashem’ should stop being shocked.”
Left-wing activist Eldad Yaniv responded: “I say to my camp – it’s permissible for the prime minister to say ‘b’ezrat Hashem,’ just like the US president – Democratic or Republican – doesn’t end a speech to the nation without ‘G-d Bless America.'”
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בעזרת השם – יהיה טוב!
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10 Responses
Wait till HaKodosh Baruch Hu shows them a bit !!!
The left (both in Israel and the US) hates Hashem with a vengeance
One can’t be “liberal” if he does
Liberal means to be free no different than frei
Nothing new no surprises. In the history it’s always Jews that are the worst Jew haters
Do these filthy leftist dogs not realize that the America dollar that they worship has In God we trust printed on it?
should stop being shocked.” & shot
This is the epitome of Zionism.
It’s ok to do it IF the US president does it. If the goyim do it then we can.
The whole idea of the zionist movement, going back over 120 years, was to make Eretz Yisrael “free” of Yiddishkeit, i.e. no Torah, no Mitsvos. From a traditional zionist perspective, thew current government “missed the memo”. In the long run, the inability of the (secular zionists) to co-exist with religious (defined as what in America would be considered “modern Orthodox” at the least) Jews probably dooms the long term survival of the medinah.
They should go back to Russia, such atheists have nothing lost in a “Jewish” land.
Any good card carrying tziyoinee does not use the term bezrat hashem.
To the BDS leftist and Anarchist Lapid’s useful idiots.
YOU FINALLY GOT IT !!!
BE’EZRAT HASHEM
Not Beezras Biden, sorros, EU, UN