MK (Yahadut Hatorah) Moshe Gafne, who heads the Degel Hatorah party, has spoken out against the rival Peleg Yerushalmi faction following days of the latter’s stormy anti-IDF protests and rioting around Israel. Days of violence began with the arrest of a talmid who police handed over to military authorities after learning he failed to register for the draft and was wanted by military authorities.
Gafne made his comments during a motzei Shabbos event in Givat Ze’ev HaChadasha, speaking out against such protests. He questioned where we have a tradition to take part in such hafganos and to send 16-year-old bochrim to face off against police. “Where in the world did we hear such things” he questioned.
He concluded by giving his bracha to the community and its rabbonim and that they should continue flourishing and growing and see the benches in the beis medrash fill.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Bemechillah mikvodo, pretty much nobody cares what MK Gafne thinks about such matters. The Israeli Charedi world looks to its spiritual leaders (Roshei Yeshiva, Admorim, dayanim) for guidance and for the most part they have been keeping silent on this matter, at least publicly. And the general Israeli public is well aware of this.