Vitamin P gets celebrities into Meron

Many people are upset that certain people were let in to Meron for the celebrations on lag B'Omer. It was announced that only 150 VIP permits would be granted, 50 each to the Hassidic, Sefardi and Dati bonfires. How each of the 50 was decided, nobody seems to know. Different ministers and the police distributed the permits. In each group there were some rabbonim and community leaders, but there were also plenty of others. No criteria had been published and nobody knows why Reuven was granted a permit and Shimon was not.

That's fine. This country is built on protexia, aka Vitamin P, and there was no way a limited event that normally draws upwards of a quarter million people being limited to 150 people would not be determined by Vitamin P. I think it is to be expected.

This morning found people throwing fits that some like singer Omer Adam and other businessmen and well-connected people were included. Everyone who had given out permits had denied giving these people permits, so nobody knows or is willing to admit to letting them in. The police just said that they showed up with proper permits so they were let in. People are questioning why they should have been allowed in rather than so many others who wanted to get in.

I am not sure why it bothers anyone that Omer Adam or Avishai Neria got in rather than any of the other 148 people. How were any of them chosen? Is anyone asking why Shimon or Yehuda or Shmulik or the specific rabis that were included were allowed in and what made them more deserving than any of the other 250k who wanted to go? is Omer Adam less deserving of using his protexia than any of the others?

For a country that works on protexia, people are simply upset that this time it was someone else's protexia that worked and not their own.

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