Following the letter sent by Coronavirus Commissioner Ronni Gamzu to the Ukrainian government, as well as his comments regarding the statement about Hagaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky yesterday, the MKs from the UTJ party got together and sent a letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asking him to intervene and stop Gamzu from constantly attacking the Charedi community.
“Ever since his appointment as Coronavirus Commissioner, Professor Ronni Gamzu has given off the sensation that instead of coming to combat the virus and work on healing the public, he is more occupied with creating subversive headlines, and making comments against the Chareidi public,” the letter stated.
The faction reminded Netanyahu of the secret letter that Gamzu sent the Ukrainian governmentn a letter with regard to the Breslov Chassidim. UTJ members claim that doing so was completely outside the jurisdiction of Gamzu and that it had harmful effects that were not thought through, thus having unintended consequences. The party claimed that this goes against the proper operating procedure of any normal country, where the people who make foreign policy and health decisions would be the Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister, and the Health Minister. The party wrote that “due to this letter, in recent days there has bee a dramatic rise in the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Ukraine.”
The party members concluded that “In order to restore the faith of the Chareidi public in the system, we request that you intervene directly and ensure that these actions and this type of leadership cease immediately.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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5 Responses
Gamzo Lo Letova
Where does it say to send him packing or that they are quitting?
an other jewish antisemit.This can only happen in Israel no manners and bashing on chareidi people.Are the none Chareidi better?
i dont think so.
Gamzu may have at least a bit of a point
I was at Kever Rochel this week on Wednesday. 100% of the people on the Men’s side were Charedi, obviously I did not see who was on the Women’s side.
I observed about 25% of the people not wearing any sort of mask or observing and social distancing.
Of the balance about 20% of the people were wearing their mask properly. The rest had it either only on their mouth or on their beard/chin not covering the face at all.
I cannot see how we, being Shomrei Torah U’Mitzvos, can condone this behavior.
It’s strictly statistics… nothing anti chareidi.. unfortunately chareidi market has higher rate…