Following seven weeks of study, a group of 30 chareidim completed their course to become patrol policemen. Many family members were on hand to escort them during graduation as they prepared to become members of Israel Police.
The graduates will be assigned to different areas and hopefully, they will succeed in improving the ties between police and the chareidi community. Some of the new recruits are married and have children, and for them the new position also opens a door to a career and earning a livelihood.
Just this week Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich announced he wishes to bring more minorities into the department including chareidim, for he feels this is how the department will be able to improve its connection with the chareidi tzibur and address certain issues in that community including cases of family abuse that are all too often covered up.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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5 Responses
Lets wait and see what happens the first time one of these “chareideim” is ordered to do something that is ossur al pi haTorah.
I personally saw “chareidi” police driving on shabbos
#2- How do you know they were not responding to an emergency?
It was by a shabbos macha’ah. How big of an emergency is that?
Or let’s see how relationships can improve?