Outgoing Defense Minister Benny Gantz was verbally attacked by a right-wing activist as he left the hadlakah ceremony for the third Chanukah licht at the Kosel on Tuesday evening.
Gantz had lit the candles together with a frum minister in his party, Chili Tropper,
As he left the ceremony, accompanied by Migdal HeEmek Rav, HaRav Yitzchak Dovid Grossman, a right-wing activist screamed loudly at him: “Gantz, you should be ashamed that you said that there’s room in Yerushalayim for two capitals! Go away from here! Go home, Gantz!”
The attack was condemned by the Western Wall Heritage Foundation as well as by UTJ chairman Yitzchak Goldknopf, who stated: “I condemn the vicious attack against Minister Benny Gantz at the Kosel. The Kosel belongs to every Jew…it is forbidden to publicly humiliate any person, and certainly someone who devotes his life to the State of Israel.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Sephardic ppl can see right through the two-faces opinions of politicians
Media wouldn’t be as disturbed if verbal barrage would be aired at BG
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Sephardic ppl can see right through the two-faces opinions of politicians
Media wouldn’t be as disturbed if verbal barrage would be aimed at BG
this man wanted to close down yeshivas and send all the talmidim into his army, why do they allow such characters such kibbudim it is a bizayon to the kosel to have this mehalel shabbos bfarhesya to light the menora which actually commemorates FIGTHING the yevonim not giving them a kibud.
This man single handed my nearly killed yeshivas wants to give Jerusalem back to the Arabs and they let him light the candles
What a joke
if the Kosel belongs to every Jew than something is already going wrong….Gantz must apologize…period….why was he lighting at the Kotel, he doesn’t live in the Old City and therefore his diminished state of mind should have been what was the decision point…..I would hate to be in his mind period…..
Sara Rifka- the Kotel does not belong to every Jew? Why not?