Life in Israel: Interesting News From Bet Shemesh

Feb 12, 2012

In this week's Bet Shemesh Weekly News update put out by Rabbi Dov Lipman there are two items that i found particularly interesting:

OPEN UNIVERSITY IN BET SHEMESHThe Open University will begin operating in Bet Shemesh this March. An informational meeting will be held on Tuesday February 14 between 6:00p.m. and 8:00p.m. at Branco Weiss. For more information please call Richard Peres at 052-272-4155.
MAYOR CALLS FOR "NO VIOLENCE" IN THE CITY
Mayor Abutbol held a press conference this week to announce a new program geared towards rooting out violence from the city. A new hotline has been established for residents to report any violent acts. This will enable the city to monitor where violence is most prevalent in order to direct cameras and other violence prevention measures to those areas. Residents are asked to report all acts of violence to 054-954-5555 or lolalimut@beitshemesh.co.il. It should be noted that controversy erupted after it was discovered that signs related to this new program were not hung in the Chareidi neighborhoods. The Mayor used that same press conference to announce that the new city booklets will include women's pictures and they simply won't be distributed in Chareidi areas.

For the full Bet Shemesh weekly news update, check out Tzedek-Tzedek
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Meir SFebruary 12, 2012 8:42 PM
Another interesting piece of news from Beit Shemesh in the local papers, is a report of a religious woman in a lift at the Terem building in Big, being cursed at by a chareidi guy. The woman whose brother is a well know Rabbi involved in Teshuva, was told she was a shiksa, prutza, and goya, but she did not remain quiet, and shouted back at him, in language he would definitely understand and get the message. Kol Hakavod.
Regarding the mayor's initiative, the paper points out, that there are already 2 municipal bodies dealing with violence.
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