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May 1, 2014
Bet Shemesh news, division, walls, and shuls
Bet Shemesh has been in the news for a number of things recently...
1. Gideon Saar, the Minister of Interior, has said, in response to a query on the issue from MK Meir Porush (UTJ), that dividing Bet Shemesh is not on the agenda.
source: Bechadrei
Obviously, just because something is not on the agenda today does not mean it will not be on the agenda tomorrow, but it does show what Saar thinks of the idea. And Saar, if the plan advances, is the one who would be responsible for it.
2. Regardless of what Saar said, Bet Shemesh City Councilman has taken what was a bad and negative idea, splitting the city to two separate municipalities, and has made it ridiculous.
Peres introduced his new plan for splitting the city. His revised plan now includes a wall dividing the two cities.
source: Mynet
There is some debate about whether Bet Shemesh has the halachic status of a walled city, in relation to the relevant halachot of Purim. This brings some new meaning to the idea of Bet Shemesh as a walled city.
Maybe Richard Peres can import the stones from the dismantled Berlin Wall and use them to build his Bet Shemesh wall.
Peres can also arrange a twinning with Berlin.
3. 2 shuls in Bet Shemesh, in RBS B, were vandalized and ransacked on Monday. In one f the shuls the Torah scrolls were thrown on the floor, in addition to other damage done and items stolen (such as a valuable Moroccan shofar as well as silver and wooden Torah cases). From the second shul, the Torah scrolls were stolen. The Torahs were later discovered discarded in the nearby forest.
source: Kikar
1. Gideon Saar, the Minister of Interior, has said, in response to a query on the issue from MK Meir Porush (UTJ), that dividing Bet Shemesh is not on the agenda.
source: Bechadrei
Obviously, just because something is not on the agenda today does not mean it will not be on the agenda tomorrow, but it does show what Saar thinks of the idea. And Saar, if the plan advances, is the one who would be responsible for it.
2. Regardless of what Saar said, Bet Shemesh City Councilman has taken what was a bad and negative idea, splitting the city to two separate municipalities, and has made it ridiculous.
Peres introduced his new plan for splitting the city. His revised plan now includes a wall dividing the two cities.
source: Mynet
There is some debate about whether Bet Shemesh has the halachic status of a walled city, in relation to the relevant halachot of Purim. This brings some new meaning to the idea of Bet Shemesh as a walled city.
Maybe Richard Peres can import the stones from the dismantled Berlin Wall and use them to build his Bet Shemesh wall.
Peres can also arrange a twinning with Berlin.
3. 2 shuls in Bet Shemesh, in RBS B, were vandalized and ransacked on Monday. In one f the shuls the Torah scrolls were thrown on the floor, in addition to other damage done and items stolen (such as a valuable Moroccan shofar as well as silver and wooden Torah cases). From the second shul, the Torah scrolls were stolen. The Torahs were later discovered discarded in the nearby forest.
source: Kikar
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I like Peres idea with just a small change. Anybody who wants should move somewhere else (nobody's stopping them) and build a wall so we don't have to deal with them.
ReplyDeleteI have a better idea -- limit arnona discounts to those who are INVOLUNTARILY POOR. We are sick of financing able-bodies residents who elect to not work, and then stick US with the bill for their social services.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't heard about the vandalized / robbed batei knesset - do they have any idea who did it?
ReplyDeleteAnd the idea of the wall may have potential - if the wall went all the way around RBS B, could they then fill it with water and make it the country's biggest swimming pool - just thinking out loud....
I am hesitant to listen to anyone in Israel with the name "Richard."
ReplyDeleteGET A PROPER JEWISH NAME!