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Haredim riot in Jerusalem as soldiers cross Mea Shearim
Noam (Dabul) Dvir
Published: 20.05.13, 08:46
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1. What they don't pay in taxes...
Jacob E ,   Holon, Israel   (05.20.13)
If they do not like the ammenities they receive from the taxes the rest of us pay, then I say they shouldn't get them. If they don't like security, or waste disposal, go to the neighborhoods and have a vote. If they choose to decline their right to security and waste disposal, clear out all the bins and dumpsters. Don't have police and army enter their neighborhoods. Any of the ultra orthodox that choose to join the army from those neighborhoods and wear their uniform with pride should be treated with the honor they deserve and helped to find a place to live elsewhere if they desire.
2. Crazy Haredim
(05.20.13)
So stupid they are hurting the only country that will take care of them...
3. Discusting behavior they dont deserve to live here
Haim ,   TA   (05.20.13)
They riot because two soldiers walked in their neighborhood? They want to be greatful to that it wasnt 2 Iranian soldiers walking through their neighborhood. Its time these animals were made to pay the price. Quite obviously if they have the time and energy to set Jerusalem on fire then they should be in the IDF where at the very least they will learn how to behave as human beings. Time to cut their benefits and child allowance.
4. Our rabbanim & state failed miserably!
Jew1 ,   Ashdod   (05.20.13)
Both of them was able to create idle, empty headed, non educated, stone age rules followers - to destroy jews & jewish nation from within. No need for Iran to create nuke as we will destroy ourselves in near future. All these bunch of ritors need is a ouside funding to become jewish terrorist. That day is not far when we will see this happening.
5. savages
Cipora Julianna Kohn ,   Z   (05.20.13)
these people are savages. they should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. they are selfish and unthinking. they refuse to see the realities of life, such as the thousands of missiles that threaten the state continually. one day, their extreme provocations and acts of crime will bring punishment on their heads.
6. Idiotic haredim
Margie in Tel Aviv   (05.20.13)
Without the IDF these people wouldn't be able to live in Jerusalem supported by state funds as they are. They should not only thank these young people for protecting them, they should join their ranks and protect them in their turn.
7. Strange
A Jerusalemite ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (05.20.13)
Very strange that Haridi rioters never seem to be caught...
8. Is it 40,000 haredim rioting in Jerusalem?
Secular racism   (05.20.13)
Haredi media must learn from secular media how to post their news. If one secular Israeli Jew/Arab throws stones at Jews or IDF, they should headline it "Secular throw stones at Jews".
9. Time to start locking them up!
Michael Redbourn ,   Arad   (05.20.13)
If anybody else, Jew, Muslim, Christian or Bedouin etc threw stones, garbage etc. and attacked police and soldiers, they'd be locked up. Time to start treating the Haredim in the same way that all other citizens are treated. Lock them up!
10. Civil war in Israel ? If Haredi can throw stones -
Barbara ,   Haifa Israel   (05.20.13)
then they can take up guns and be soldiers. Stones are weapons (David and Goliath).
11. Response to Haredim
Josh ,   USA   (05.20.13)
As an American Jew observing this from afar, I am mystified as to why the Haredim are continually allowed to behave this way with no consequences. Is it just my imagination, or is it true that no one from the Haredim ever receive any punishment for these behaviors? Could someone please explain this to me - and that's a real question, not a rhetorical question:)
12. 6 Margie TA
Cipora Julianna Kohn ,   Z   (05.20.13)
i have not seen you in ages. i hope that you are well. cipora.
13. 9 michael, not quite right
Cipora Julianna Kohn ,   Z   (05.20.13)
arabs are throwing stones at jews in the galil, and the police do not respond.
14. report lacks facts and fails to ask vital questions
Joel ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (05.20.13)
This article doesn't question its own facts nearly enough. The police don't seem to have witnessed the alleged riot. There is no interview with the supposed soldiers, nor any witnesses of the soldiers or any indication as to whether they were attacked. The only fact that seems to have been established was that a trash can caught fire and some obstacles were placed in the road. Police showed up. I'm not taking a side, but this is poor reporting, to say the least.
15. Build a fence around that place
Naomi   (05.20.13)
and let the haredim live there by themselves
16. Haredim rioting in Mea Shearim
Larry ,   Cape Town, South Afr   (05.20.13)
If Jerusalem is divided as part of a peace settlement the Mea Shearim area should be included in the Palestinian section
17. My son who wears a beard and payos and is very frum
Al   (05.20.13)
risks his life day in day out protecting the country against the enemy. Yet these ingrates who are nothing more than ignorant morons riot against the very people who protect them. The Rabbis are useless and worthless, for they cant control their own tinif. They are despicable...I will never ever support them in any way.
18. The Haredi riot
Dror ,   Emeq Yizrael, Israel   (05.20.13)
They want to remain stuck in eastern europe of the 18th and 19th century and they have decided to transport the shtetl to Israel. They look down upon non haredi Jews as being not real Jews. Have they looked in the mirror lately. Many of them are blonde and or redheads, they look like eastern europeans. Over the centuries the blood has become very thin with europe's jews and these jokers are not an exception. They had the nerve to question me on my being a Jew. When my family has been closer to the pure blood lineage of the Jewish people of ancient times. My skin complexion is olive brown skin tone. My family is from Iraq ancient Babylon. A few weeks walking distance from Israel.
19. Festering problem
Arnold ,   Montreal-Canada   (05.20.13)
The Haredim are an intricate part of the State and the populace. But they do not live in a vaccum. We have Haredim in Montreal and they too live within their own community ...but they pay their way. If it is true that the Haredim in Israel do not pay their fair share of taxes then the social services supplied to them need to be cut off. That means garbage removal , street cleaning, police services , and if utilities are not paid for then those too as well.
20. Haredim
Edouard ,   Montreal Canada   (05.20.13)
They are NOT JEWISH They are some sort of a sect far away from the vast majority of am israel They don't speak Hebreux ,the love our enemy's ,the love Ahmadinejad ,they don't pay taxes,they dont serve,they don't recognize the stat of israel I all this people " hostile ,dangerous tumor " Out if israel out of israel out of israel
21. Wow! A monster is growing, protected and being nurtured...
Harry Wright ,   UK   (05.20.13)
...right inside Israel. That monster knows and can resort to violence within the state but won't lift a finger to protect it - yes, that same state it views as its provider for all its needs, by RIGHT. They know how to take from the state but apparently, they don't know how to give back anything. Intestinal worms are dealt with so they don't kill the host.
22. Terrorists
Michael Steiner ,   Bahrain   (05.20.13)
They dress, talk, walk, and think as if they're in a 17th century shtetl in Poland. Perhaps that where they ought to go because they're TOTALLY incompatible with the modern State of Israel.
23. Comrades don't act excessively
Zechariah   (05.20.13)
Excessively punishing the Haredim is no good and provoking them is bad. In steps they ought serve brought out into a more rational mode . Maimodes had great problems with the more slower to adjust but eventually was universally accepted .There are tensions also within as in all human interplay Resilience needs to be Strengthened .
24. Just Wait
Aryeh ,   Haifa, Israel   (05.20.13)
The real trouble won't start until the Haredim in the army choose to stay in it and many become officers. Haredim actually make good soldiers and will move over from welfare to government payroll in the next dozen of years. It will start very slowly. But once the masses see that they CAN go to the army and continue to live by their standards then the flood gates will open.
25. Haredim
Steve Gure USA ,   coconut creek, fl   (05.20.13)
The reason that they get away with so much is that they vote as a block. They are controled by the Rabi and produce a vote. It is obvious that a monster has been created and must be stopped. The time has come when they have to be controled however harshly.
26. Bully boys!
Mark ,   London, UK   (05.20.13)
Bully boy tactics seem to rule in their own community; it's natural for them to assume the rest of society functions in this way. For all the hours they spend in Yeshiva, argument with those who do not agree with them is haram.
27. BREAK THEM ONCE & FOR ALL... OR FACE FURTHER CHAOS, ANARCHY
Rafi ,   US   (05.20.13)
come in with massive force including Border Police and arrest the leaders...
28. #20 Edouard
Edwin ,   Canada   (05.20.13)
I agree! From a non-Jewish perspective these people display none of the characteristics of the Jewish people. They liken all who don't belong to their little club to "non-kosher restaurants", yet it is easy for an outsider to see it is they who behave like the people of the Golden Calf.
29. simple solution
Marvin Crane ,   Parsippany NJ   (05.20.13)
Make mandatory National Service a requirement for reciept of ANY state aid!
30. If a Palestenian child throws a stone
John Robey ,   Austin, Texas   (05.20.13)
Israel says they are terrorists. Are the haredim also terrorists?
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