Severe reactions in the political system following harassment in the town of Chumash on Saturday evening, which included confiscation of equipment near the beginning of Shabbat. Many Knesset members addressed the issue and sharply attacked the decision of the security forces to leave the yeshiva students and guests who arrived, without equipment and without clothes, a few moments before Shabbat.
The chairman of the Knesset Chumash lobby, MK Yuli Edelstein, pointed an accusing finger at Gantz: “Left-wing organizations, if it is a government that operates like a left-wing government, it is a left-wing government. We will dismantle this government long before they dismantle Chumash.”
The chairman of the Religious Zionist Party, Bezalel Smutrich, also attacked the harassment of the Chumash and thanked right-wing members for doing so on their shift. And leaving them a whole Shabbat without minimal personal equipment is an abuse of its name and a serious violation of human rights. Thank you Nir, thank you Ayelet, thank you Matan, really thank you. shame on you”.
The chairman of the Religious Zionist faction, MK Orit Struck, also pointed the finger of blame at Gantz: Of the yeshiva students was taken, to leave them on the mountain in want of anything. Does anyone in the coalition think to stop this? ” Struck asked. A member of the party and chairman of Jewish Power, MK Itamar Ben Gvir added that “Bennett is sending IDF soldiers to confiscate equipment of students of Yeshivat Chumash and leave them destitute on Shabbat. shame!”.
MK Yossi Tayeb of Shas expressed but he was shocked by the harassment of Chumash. “Moments before Shabbat begins, the defense minister sends forces to evacuate Jews from the area of the Chumash settlement. Personal student equipment was also taken. Does anyone there at the Ivory Tower think of stopping it?” Tayeb wrote. MK Shlomo Qarei of the Likud also attacked Ganz and Auerbach, claiming: “Ganz just said that the Torah of Israel has protected us for 2,000 years and not the IDF. How dare you in the same breath send the security forces to destroy the world of yeshiva students who give their lives for the Torah “And the land? You have no border? Nir Orbach will wake up. All the happy bride and groom as if they built one of the ruins of Jerusalem.
Former members of the right wing, Amichai Shikli and Idit Silman, also commented on the issue. MK Shikli obeyed on his Twitter account because it is a low we have not seen before, to send fighters on Saturday evening to confiscate personal equipment of yeshiva students is a delusional and despicable act, a real harassment that tramples both the honor of the soldiers and the yeshiva students. As the coordinator of the operations of the Palestinian Authority and the Biden administration “in the West Bank” than the Minister of Defense of the State of Israel “Leshon Shikli. MK Silman added that “Jewish vehicles are being killed in Samaria all the time, in the village of Huwwara, and attached is a picture from this morning near Ramat Gilad.
It will be recalled that on Saturday evening, dozens of Border Police officers arrived at the Chumash settlement and boycotted the yeshiva, the students and guests who came to sit there. We are calling on members of the government – look where we have come, stop this madness. “