Police raided a home in Charish, south of Haifa, and confiscated sound equipment used to announce the onset of Shabbos with music. Increasing numbers of chareidim are moving into the town, rousing resentment among a small nucleus of secular residents.
Speaking on behalf of the Noam Kedushas Shabbos organization and the Betzalmo human rights group, attorney Michoel Litvak said, “There is no doubt that the police violated their authority by choosing to participate in narrow and local politics to please the local authority, which has chosen to harass the chareidi public in the city while surrendering to a handful of violent residents who find Shabbos songs unpleasant to their ears.”
“My clients cannot help but wonder at the selective enforcement against them when tens and hundreds of complaints about noise and music at high volume are not enforced at all,” he said.
The police were later forced to return the audio equipment.
{Matzav.com Israel}
this should be international news the goyim shouldnt be annoyed by our shabbos.
Sick lawless anti Torah country. Don’t see any need to move there.
Just note that Charish was supposed to be built as an all-charedi city, to help relieve the tremendous shortage of charedi housing, but a group of secular Israelis sued for the right to buy housing and won. The secular have no right to disrupt religious observance in the city.
Oy the zionists
don’t nobody look at a calendar no more to see what time shobbos is.
They should use the Muslim loudspeaker that calls for prayer.