Major General (Res.) Gadi Shamni, former head of the IDF Central Command, on Thursday criticized the conduct of the State of Israel at Kever Yosef and claimed that the IDF should stop securing the entry of Israelis who go to daven at the kever, which is located in the city of Shechem.
“The entire story of Kever Yosef is one big mistake,” he said in an interview on Reshet Bet radio, according to Arutz Sheva. “This is a huge operation of bringing people, transportation and other events around the prayers. We have to stop endangering soldiers. Every entry into the site causes friction and it’s only a matter of time until a disaster happens there.”
“Just to think that IDF soldiers might be killed just to provide security to charedi groups who don’t even serve in the army…” he added.
{Matzav.com Israel}
Don’t quite require a PhD nor a סמיכה to comprehend that מצוה of patronizing קבר יוסף הצדיק so absolutely does not justify anyone endangering their life to go there, nor to force any Israeli soldier to be forced to endanger their life to enable someone to visit there.
This entire comment also equally applies to Uman this ראש השנה in 39 days
Why don’t the charaydim make their own protection services? A frum police force would make everyone happy. If they don’t then I agree with the general and protective services have to stop now.
He’s not incorrect. True the way he said it might be provocative, but why endanger ANYONE’S life just to daven there makes no sense. No where does it say pikuach nefesh is allowed for kever yosef.
So what is Israel? A place for coward grumpy honing of bad choice?
They should work ten times as hard. Our charidim are the blessed of nations. They are not going to secular trump races.
The regulation of borders is important. Must include pertinent graves.
While the General’s motives are treif, he is obviously 100% correct. While it may “feel good” for us frum yidden to exercise our “rights” to access Kever Yosef, we are endangering Jewish lives by doing so, and perhaps that’s not something that is “ruach hamokom nocheh heimenu”
It’s not only endangering Jewish lives that is a big problem. It’s also giving chizuk to reshaim (Zionists, not necessarily the soldiers on the ground there), and hisgarus baUmos.
Hard to argue with that logic
“don’t even serve”
would be a halbe tzarah.
we oppose, besmirch, and deride them
You’re not saying what daas Torah is saying.
If the tzionim did not exist, there would be no friction and hence we wouldn’t need their protection. They caused the problems, let them deal with it.
much less say a tiflah for the idf as per ROY ztl
While he is 100% correct that no one should go to Kever Yosef because it endangers life to do so, the type of people who would go there are not the type of people who would never serve in the IDF. (look at the picture)
The Edah Hachreidus and the Litvish Yeshiva world oppose going there (I’m not sure about general Chasidim)