JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Yehuda Meshi Zahav, the director and founder of ZAKA, lost his mother Sora Zisel to coronavirus this week, less than a month after his brother died from a serious illness. The pain of losing his mother is worse however for Meshi Zahav, who says that for ten months his parents were protected “like an Esrog” by their children.
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“My mother was perfectly healthy, active, constantly giving, she’d never had a problem with her lungs before.,” Meshi Zahav said in a Ynet interview. “My brother went away before Chanukah and family members made a Chanukah party with my parents. Everyone at the party got sick and she gradually became more sick until she passed away.”
With coronavirus rates skyrocketing in Israel, the Chareidi public is suffering the most from the third wave, with an estimated 1 in 3 of those infected belonging to the Chareidi sector. Meshi Zahav does not mince words about Chareidim who ignore COVID-19 regulations.
“What’s happening in our sector is unbelievable. Whenever someone is sick we always run to the best doctors, to Rabbi Firer, to get the best treatment. What’s happened here? There seems to be a total ‘myopia’ from our leaders. They are worse than Holocaust deniers, since they deny something which happened in the past, but here they are denying something happening in front of us…just to see the families of those sick people sitting in the hospital corridors- so much pain, crying and weeping. I was in a hospital this week and the tissues had run out, I had to go and bring them tissues.
“What happened to our leaders. How can they say ‘our hands didn’t shed this blood’? There are people wandering around who have shed blood. There’s hardly a building or neighborhood without deaths. You walk around Chareidi neighborhoods and see billboards and the names change like movie pictures. Every few hours the signs are replaced with new names of those who have died.
“44 people died yesterday…44 families which will never be the same again – and yet we are lax. Don’t they see? Every person is a potential time bomb. On funeral announcements instead of writing ‘may their memory be blessed’ we should write ‘may G-d avenge their blood’…..Just to hear the cries from the coronavirus department – water, bathroom, nurse -tears one’s heart open. There’s nobody who can tend to them and I sat on the fifth floor and watched ambulance after ambulance taking away body after body.”
Rabbi Benny Fisher, the director of the Magen Lacholeh medical referral organization, also strongly condemned violators of the health regulations as “wild people, two-footed animals.” In a Ynet interview he called on everyone to “go and vaccinate” and to “run away from shuls, closed places, not to send children to schools or Talmud Torahs. The entire educational system must be under lock and key.”
Fisher however stressed that there are violators both among Chareidim and among the secularists. “There must be egalitarian enforcement. The pictures from the beaches on Shabbos are heartrending and so are those from the large wedding in Bnei Brak.”
Nu Educated? Vos sogst zi them? Is he one of the liberal Soros/Coumo Not Torah true Jew?
In general it’s stupid to liken something to the holocaust. But it’s not at all shocking for someone who never finished high school because he was busy burning down buildings, to talk such stupidity
I don’t know if they are Worse Than Holocaust Deniers, but they certainly enable the deaths of innocent people, so maybe in this manner he is correct?
this is all anecdotal , infection rates are not skyrocketing, the pcr test should not be used for diagnosis, it only tells you if you have been exposed in the last year to some kind of corona virus, the body likely fought it off, i don’t know one single person in israel who is sick and i live there, there are no shiva posters, no funerals, this whole thing is a joke
I strongly disagree with the comparison.
Holocaust deniers likely either:
A. hate the Zionists, who cover up Zionist evil and treachery in the Holocaust, as the Zionists misuse the Holocaust to justify their imposter “Jewish” State or
B. hate, liHavdil, Jews, for no good reason, or
C. both.
So, denying the Holocaust is de facto denying the facts of what occurred in Nazi-occupied Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.
People who “deny” Covid, as he puts it, meaning they are simply living normal lives, are not doing anything even remotely comparable.
A. Scientists and doctors keep changing their minds. First, they said not to wear masks. Then, they said one mask. Now, they want people to wear two masks.
B. Many, many people have already had this, and/or are B”H otherwise immune.
I can’t say what is or is not proper behavior, but the comparison he made is very wrong because it equates hate with something very unlike it.
It is unfortunate that he espouses the current medical dialogue with such rote. Sunshine at the beach (in a religious context of course) is one of the healthiest things people can do to strengthen and support the immune system (along with other healthy lifestyle disciples).
Mask wearing may be a gesture toward empathy for others in close public quarters, especially where among mixed crowds of those who feel this is helpful and will protect them. However, it is essentially a useless, draconian measure, and also limits the amount of oxygen-rich air that a person is able to breathe.
Additionally, the vaccines are totally experimental and shouldn’t be trusted–one reason is because many experts say it will take at least 12 months for any effects to be documented thoroughly enough to responsibly take a (educated, measured) chance with them.
Those looking for stronger evidence of a cause for the widespread and debilitating levels of these outbreaks should look into the history of digital tele-communications, and especially Wi-fi and 5G (currently using the same microwave technology as microwave ovens). Generating-devices of this technology are what is being shown more and more to be at the root of what has been sickening the world especially for the last year. (For example, there were three ‘rollouts’ of 5G in Wuhan Province corresponding to the three major epidemic clusters of cases toward the end of 2019 and the start of this last year there. Similarly in Northern Italy and many other places around the globe).
Some communities, such as in France, have prohibited Wi-Fi (and 5G) in public places, and have instead (wisely) invested instead in Fiber Optic technology. There are groups around the globe protested 5G and the related satellite launches for these reasons of their implied weakening effects on humankind and also other species.