As promised, hundreds of Yeshiva Bochrim affiliated with the Peleg faction took to the streets of Jerusalem once again on Tuesday afternoon at around 4:30PM.
Participants were instructed to arrive in the area of Yaffo and Sarei Yisrael Streets, which was quickly shut. The jerusalem Light Rail was brought to a stop, as well as buses and thousands of cars travelling in the area were forced into gridlock.
As of this update, at least 18 people have been arrested.
The Committee that calls itself ” הוועדה להצלת עולם התורה” (Save the Torah World) promised a very large protest” following the arrest of a Yeshiva Bochur.
They are referring to a Yeshiva Bochur from Yeshivas Meiras Shemua in Ashdod that was stopped for a routine inspection and identified as being AWOL from military service. He was then handed over to the custody of military police.
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perhaps these tzaddikim would feel more at home in Iran or Gaza or Syria??
Great. What a special way to spend the afternoon seder time, stealing their time from other ehriche Yidden.
I am asking any charedi fundraiser who contacts me if they are requiring their beneficiaries to sign a shtar stating they will not participate in these disruptive hafganot, and that if they do (and are caught) they will be DROPPED from their recipient list.
Why there cannot be a yom iyun/tefillah, special sedarim, etc instead is beyond me.
Almost like the Ethiopians who protest when they don’t like what they claim was done to them
Or maybe Like the striking airport workers who Mess up hundreds of thousands of people
“What a special way to spend the afternoon work time, stealing their time from other ehriche Yidden.”
Who is their Rov who tells these bochurim to behave like this? If any one of them was my son, this would be the last day that I would give even a penny to support them.
Does the Gado Hador Rav Chaim Kanievsky shlita support Peleg and their protests?
They are protesting against Jews being held captive by Zionist enemies. It comes before learning.
Time to bash some heads again for those who disobey the police…..its sad that the color red may be the only incentive for these hoodlums to obey the law.
Names please. I want to insure that my children will never marry into these baalei aveiroh. If many of us spent as much time learning as these fools do being mevatel Torah, we may all accomplish a lot.
From their perspective, why shouldn’t they protest? According to their worldview, any attempt by the Israeli government to have any control over their lives is perceived as persecution against their deeply held values.
If like me, you believe those beliefs are erroneous and extreme, the first thing you need to do is to understand them and try to convince them otherwise if they are willing to listen.
Also, be honest with yourselves. I’d assume that for the majority of YWN readers, if the Israeli government started trying to force all Yeshiva Bochurim to go to the army, you would approve of the most extreme protests to combat what you perceive as evil persecution of the Torah world by the evil Zionist government. You may believe those protests to be justified but remember that there’ll be an entire subset of people who will be mocking you for support of “inconveniencing” so many people for something that you believe in strongly enough to protest against.
My point is not to try to dictate to anyone here what they should or shouldn’t believe. I am only suggesting that people need to do some introspection and maybe eat a little pie.
If you do, maybe you’ll realise like I have that these issues are a lot more nuanced that your knee jerk reactionary comments condemning the peleg protesters.
And if I may respectfully add, I believe theyeshivaworld.com editorial board could use some humble pie as well before they formulate their headlines for such articles which always seem to be heavily critical of Peleg.
tough place to be a cop–if you are not fighting arabs, you are fighting ethiopians–if you are not fighting ethiopians, you are fighting black hatters.
Why don’t they use rubber bullets or teargas
Mam, while your post is well thought out, it’s also wrong.
The vast majority of readers here would NOT support a protest even for a draft law. There are many other ways people can effectively react to something that goes against what they believe in. Protesting and inconveniencing other people is not one of them.
Hey Fat 36,
Why they use live ammunition and solve this problem.
Time the Peleg took some advice from their Ethiopian brethren and learned how to make a serious protest demonstration, not just a sit-down strike. Also, why don’t they bring out pepper gas sprays to force the horses away?
Huge Kiddish Hashem of Acheinu Bnei Yisroel showing we’re willing to go to prison to stand up for our Torah rights and obligations.
Baruch Hashem.
This is the only language the Zionists understand. Shut down the country.
Netzhachamah These are learned boys didn’t they learned that God gives you free choice so if you choose to play on a minefield hey what should I say
I’m confused. How is this different from the civil rights protests in America?
BaltimoreMaven, It’s not very different, they were more successful, that’s all. Hindsight is 20/20. Also, these guys look like they are just out to have some fun under the guise of anti-Zionism. The civil rights movment, I think, was slightly more sincere.
@DrYidd cut you Hateful words. Unnecessary. As always.
@Gadolhatorah you have said enough hate here for a long time. Enough for now. I do have foresight.
@The little I know you never say anything smart. You know nothing,”. You are a lost peacock. No need to keep on advertising your foolishness.
You three should have a self hating Jew website and I can add a few more commentators to it.
forsight, dein numen iz vos me ruft an oxymoron. farshteist. kenst bagleiten de tzaddikim tzu iran oub du vilst.
I am going back in forth between this story and the Ethiopians, Here you have bucherim (whether right or wrong) sitting on the floor blocking traffic, The response? police on horses, people being beat up, people being arrested,
2 blocks away Ethiopians (Again right or wrong) shutting down the highway in a very different way by burning cars turning over police cars, beating the police officers, the response??? I dont know the answer.
And the guy who asked the officers why the charedim are different all he got was a smile from them…
FS:
Foolishness? Please provide at least one reference to support your positions. What it s it about me that you find irritating? Do you love your mother?
Why didn’t the police bring in singing women like they did to get rid of some extremists last week? No violence, just 4 untzanua but somewhat clothed women linking arms & singing while the men are scurrying away screeching “GEVALDT”!!! The videos are brilliant & the town Mayor deserves a medal for handling it so well.
Friends, friends, friends. If you see injustice you MUST protest. In Gittin we learn (every Tisha B’Av) that one of the reasons for Churban Beis Sheni was Chanifoh. Kamtzah saw rabbonim sitting at the seudah of the g’vir when he was being thrown out of the party. He saw, took note and was malshin the am to the kaisar. The Gemora implies that they should have protested, but didn’t. Every single one of us has an obligation to protest – which means holding up traffic, and more – if his neshomah deeply feels an injustice is being done. And even if the dominant narrative is not to protest. But it is probably better to check with your local orthodox Rabbi first, like Pinchas, because aseh lecha rav (vetistalek min hasafek- im yesh safek). And these fine Torah scholars (I mean it) do have Rabbinic authority to do what they are doing. Anyone who REALLY knows about the chareidi mafia over here has the right to comment. Everyone else – please keep quiet, but daven for the ge’uloh sheleimoh.
Peleg people are evil.
Rosen your innocence makes me laugh
Support Gedolim:
You wrote: “Every single one of us has an obligation to protest – which means holding up traffic, and more – if his neshomah deeply feels an injustice is being done.”
You are so wrong. I may disagree about the “obligation” to protest, but I accept your opinion on this. But the holding up traffic is not something that Gedolei Yisroel suggested. If you support Gedolim, as you imply in your screen name, please investigate what Gedolim said. To be a public menace is not at all what they said, not Reb Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, not the Chazon Ish, not Reb Amrom Blau ZY”A. Do not blame your rage on them. I do not disagree with protests. I do take serious issue with damage to the public that is not permitted by halacha. Put away your emotion long enough to investigate this from the Torah standpoint, and then decide how to react to the Israeli police and laws.