The Mayor of Tiveria, Ron Kobi, came to Bnei Brak on Thursday evening in what many believe to be an attempt at provoking the locals prior to elections in a week-and-a-half. Kobi fled the city after only one hour after a large throng of Charedim in the city gathered and forced him out
Koby announced in the morning that he would go to Bnei Brak, a city to which he has no connection. He arrived and began to film Facebook Live videos – as he always does. During his live feed he verbally attacked Interior Minister Aryeh Deri as well as other members of the Chareidi political circle.
Police headed to Beis HaKneses Itzkovitz, prior to Kobi’s arrival, in an effort to prevent violence should a mass of people gather against him.
Dozens of local residents streamed to the location and began to sing in protest of Kobi’s planned actions against Shabbos observance in the city of Tiveria. At a certain point the crowd began to be unruly and police began losing control of the situation. Kobi then fled from the scene with police help.
A few weeks ago, Kobi was jeered out of a Charieid concert that he tried attending after it was nealry cancelled due to seperate seating.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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18 Responses
He’s sure to become a ba’al teshuva now! No doubt!
Yaapchik,
He’s someone that the Gemara says מורידין ולא מעלין
yaapchik: you got it all wrong. the gemara says ” RESHAIM AFILU B’PISCHEI GEHENON EINUM CHOISRIM”
the wicked, even at the gates of gehenom will not do teshuva.
Just wondering what language your headline was written in. It certainly isn’t English!
Why always the clap/sing/dance routine ? They need 2 learn from da bros and switch it up @ those night activities
This time you’re wrong. There is a big difference when someone throws stones at a mechallel Shabbos, or someone spits on someone whose tzniues standards are not on your level Such people are usually minding their own business and often don’t know better. This guy is a low life and an instigator. He came to Bnai Brak looking for trouble.
@yaapchik this rasha should have the zuchus to do teshuva!
He’s a very bad dude.
You should realize evil when you see it.
@Yaapchick,
right, because thats all we are supposed to care about; someone can spit at us steal from us beat us humiliate, harass, provoke, and rob us, but we have to remember that all we want is for him to be a baal teshuva!!! How smart!
Actually,how foolishly virtuous. Chossid Shota to the tee. go check chinuch about “onoas dibur” if you need a source. i believe its 338.
Yaapchik, how about you and me, will we also become baalei teshuva?
it is a shame that a person like Kobi makes his stance as being anti-religious. and in a Jewish country! and no one calls him antisemitic!
Gee,why would any one hate such outstanding bachurim such as these???
Let me explain to you all something. There is a reason for everything ! He obviously has a hatred for chareidim from some experience he had in his life. I guarantee that this will not help. If everyone ignored him and said good morning, hello, etc… I guarantee he will have a different outlook towards them. These actions just fuel his hatred.
Yes, Mr Yaakchik, let us hope that he will become a ba’al teshuva. He has already reached the lowpoint of “who will find me a talmid chacham so that I can bite him like a donkey”. Now all we have to do is wait for him to get to the next step and see a rock that was eroded by water, and soon he will be chozer b’teshuva.
Sheer brilliance from Yaapchik!
How about
החוטא ומחטיא את הרבים אין מספיקין בידו לעשות תשובה
Its nice to see the “baroch haba” that he got without any violence. Talk about if the opposite would happen. Guns and the likes.
But theres a deeper thing here. Its true that no one in the “Jewish State” is condemning him as an antisemite, which is very unfortunate but the religious mayors and MKs, participating in a government that spites our holy Torah is a mind boggling phenomenon.
Nobody is in the Kenesset lesham shamayim. Cut the crap. Its all a hoax. The govt in Israel is all about scratching our fundamentals and spitting on all thats holy.
You people are afraid of the “blue and white”? Bibi is better? Absolutely not. All apikorsim that dont deserve anyone’s vote. All Jews participating in the elections should lick their beef. Its all treif. A tad up or down.
A terrible Chillul Hashem!! Who gave them the right to inconvenience thousands of people who are trying to get home?? People have appointments to get to, weddings to go to, etc.
Sounds familiar?
For some reason, folks here don’t seem to be so bothered by that.
Why? Because inconveniencing Bnei Brak residents for an hour to prove a political point is deemed reasonable. But causing the same inconvenience to protest the arrest of yeshiva boys is deemed radical and extreme, and deserves our unilateral condemnation, right?
The hypocrisy is absurd.
He clearly went to Bnei Brak as an instigator. What kind of reception did he expect? There was no violence. He got what he deserved.
Ron Kobi must do Teshuva! This really goes to far. What a pig.