Hundreds of residents of Modi’in have signed a petition calling to halt funding for a shul in the city. In the petition they write, “This situation gives an incentive to strengthen and attract families from the Orthodox public, and in the future many chareidi families will also be able to come to the neighborhood, to establish a closed compound especially on Shabbos, and to exclude the secular and free public from the neighborhood.”
The letter was sent to Mayor Chaim Bibas, who also serves as chairman of the Union of Local Authorities, and several council members who work against the city turning frum, such as Shachar Mei-On of the Yesh Atid party and others. The current battle being waged is against both the Heichal Nachum Shul and the Tzieri HaGivah Shul on a plot on Nachal Zohar Street, Kikar Shabbos News adds.
Residents feel that the request for the allocation to a plot adjacent to two shuls, one existing and the second under construction, “is contrary to the urban program on allocations according to the language and provisions of the law”. They quote the law which cites there should not be “another similar activity in the same area,” in this case, the existing shuls.
The residents insist the projects must be halted to avoid changing the character of their city.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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And they call this a Jewish state?!
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IF THE GOYIM WANTED TO BUILD A CHURCH , NOONE WOULD SAY A WORD. MODIIN IS HOME TO HEBREW SPEAKING GOYIM – EREV RAV
Ok, so I know just enough to say that this isn’t the whole story. Modiim has a mix of mesorati (traditional) and dati Leumi communities, and at least a dozen shuls. They don’t have many chareidim, but this is likely due to the high cost of housing.
I am in Modiin regularly, and this city is very frum friendly.
When a couple hundred people in a massive City of thousand of people sign a petition, this isn’t news.
Sad story.
But how is this worse than what the israely chareidim did against rapaport school in ramot alef around seven years ago???
Even the language was the same-“changing the character of the neighborhood” and garbage like that against a shtark school of metzuyanim who came from ramot families.
Where were all of you then?
And you call these radicals chareidim???