The anti-internet and anti-smartphone people had their big rally yesterday in Bet Shemesh...

The kid on the poster looks like a girl, but I imagine it is a boy pre-upsherin. Otherwise yatza scharam b'hefsedum.

The sign has a kid pleading for people to daven for him that his father should throw out his iphone and his internet, and that he should not destroy the family.

photo credit: Yaakov Lederman

for the past few days they've been driving around Bet Shemesh in cars and blasting the following recording on megaphones of a kid crying out that he is drowning and he is burning due to his father having internet in the home.:




They also put up pashkevilim around town on Friday announcing that the rabbonim will announce on Shabbos about people participating in the rally. They needed to announce the coming announcement.

I don't know how many people showed up to their protest.. I have not yet seen any news reports about it..

The world is made up of all types of people. Somehow we get a high concentration of a certain type in Bet Shemesh.