In the Shikun HaRabbonim, Mekor Baruch, and Sarei Yisrael, an atzeres tefilla was held on motzei Shabbos in response to plans to destroy the shul in Shikun HaRabbonim to permit the construction of high-rise chareidi housing in the area of the entrance to the city from the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Highway. The atzeres tefilla was held in Kehillas Chayei Nefesh on Sarei Yisrael Street, led by HaRav Yosef Binyamin Weiss. Additional such tefilla events are planned for the coming weeks as well.
According to BeChadrei Chareidim, there is a plan by foreign entrepreneurs to demolish the mythological central shul in Shikun HaRabbonim established in 1949 and is one of the most famous in Jerusalem. In addition, there are plans by entrepreneurs who document the construction of the giant towers, including hotels and recreation centers on Shari Yisrael Street.
These plans are already being discussed this week by municipal committees, which will lead to the secularization of the neighborhoods of Sarei Yisrael and Mekor Baruch.
At the motzei Shabbos event, HaRav Binyamin Adler warned of indifference and danger of the destruction of a shul and secularization of the neighborhood. Other rabbonim who addressed the event delivered similar messages.
One of the organizers who spoke to BeChadrei Chareidim, explaining “This is a malicious plan to demolish a shul. I do not think there was such a thing and it was best stated by Rav Binyamin Adler, who was close to all Gedolei Yisrael, who expressed pain over this in the old neighborhood of Jerusalem, alongside the residents of the Makor Baruch and Sarei Yisrael neighborhoods that the situation of the secularization of the neighborhood is at stake.”
Photos by Shlomi Cohen
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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I don’t understand after the huge kiddush hashem the city hall is in chareidi hands. we have no more worries as moishe leon will take care of us , our representatives shlucheinu vshluchei hashem will do everything in their power against secularisation! taking down a shul?