Ministers, MKs and organizations attacked today (Sunday) the conduct of Tel Aviv Municipality Towards the city's synagogues, following the municipality's demand that approximately 130 synagogues in the city sign a document committing to providing religious services "without distinction of gender or faith" - and a demand from the synagogues that did not sign to vacate the buildings.
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Minister of Heritage, Amichai Eliyahu, Attack: "The Tel Aviv Municipality and its head are trying by force to restore the appearance of Dizengoff Square from Yom Kippur in 2023.".
He added: "While Arab prayers are held at the Dolphinarium in complete separation without interruption, and while mosques are not required to sign any declaration - synagogues and worshippers in the first Hebrew city feel like a persecuted minority. Tel Aviv Municipality - are you for Israel?""
Minister of Communications Shlomo Kari responded: ""Cursed wicked ones. When the kingdom of Greece stood, it condemned your people Israel to forget your Torah... Throughout all the generations, enemies from home and abroad rose up against Judaism, all the axes and tweezers that were raised against the rock of heritage were swallowed up and became as if they were nothing. The spirit of Judaism and the glorious heritage of the Jewish people were available to all of them and will also be available to the next generation of Antiochus and the Hellenists. The people of Israel live.".
The minister subsequently sent a letter to the Minister of Justice and Deputy Minister of the Interior and Minister of Religious Services, Yariv Levin, as well as to the Cabinet Secretary, Attorney Yossi Fox, in which he strongly protested the Tel Aviv Municipality's demand that the associations operating synagogues in the city sign new contracts. "Now the municipality seeks to impose on them a draconian and unprecedented contract, which seriously harms the faith and lifestyle of the synagogue worshippers.".
In his letter, Kerei demanded immediate action: "I call on you, Honorable Deputy Minister of the Interior and Minister of Religious Services, to act immediately, firmly and uncompromisingly with all the tools at your disposal against the municipality, and to cancel this shocking decree. I will also ask that the issue be brought up for urgent discussion at the upcoming government meeting.".
Kari added sharp rhetorical questions: "What is the next step? To require synagogues to serve pork at Kiddush? To turn on microphones on Shabbat? How far will the persecution of Jewish identity in Tel Aviv go?".
He even claimed that no similar directive was issued for mosques in the city.
At the end of his letter, Kari wrote, "Throughout all generations, attempts have been made repeatedly to harm Jewish identity and tradition, but all the axes that were raised on the rock of Jewish heritage were swallowed up and disappeared as if they were nothing. It will be the same this time too... An integral part of our duty as a Jewish government in the State of Israel is to preserve the Jewish character.".
The Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, sharply attacked: "To harm the synagogues, the heart of the identity and tradition of the Jewish people - it is a shame and disgrace and crossing every red line.".
Ben Gvir added: "The synagogues are the backbone of the Jewish people, and they will stand here long after anyone who tries to erase Judaism is forgotten. Anyone who thinks they can uproot the Torah and the identity of our people is greatly mistaken.".
The minister demanded that the municipality: "Immediately stop this dangerous and despicable move. We will not lower our heads, we will not remain silent, and we cannot turn the Jewish state into a 'state of all its citizens' on the backs of the synagogues.".
Chairman of the Noam Party, MK My father Maoz, Responded to the municipality's harassment of synagogues: "What a huge gap between the first mayor, Dizengoff, who fought for the Jewish character of Tel Aviv, and Huldai, who fought against every Jewish symbol in the city's public space.".
Maoz called on the government to "act against Huldai's campaign of hatred and exclusion of Judaism in the city of Tel Aviv-Jaffa.".
organization Rabbis of Tzohar He issued a call for the municipality to reverse its decision. "Synagogues of all denominations have always operated in the heart of cities in Israel, and they are open to anyone who wishes to attend them, without discrimination or differences of opinion. Synagogues are the heart of the Jewish community, and were built to accommodate every Jew, wherever he may be.
""We call on the Tel Aviv Municipality to act responsibly and immediately renew the contract with the synagogues based on the agreements that existed in the past.".
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