Yeshiva students want to move out of a hostel full of women, but they can't.

January 5, 2021   

Five yeshiva students who contracted the coronavirus and are staying at the Dan Hyatt Corona Hotel in Jerusalem have been requesting since yesterday to move to a hotel for yeshiva students only, without women, but are encountering difficulties. Suffering from a medical problem? Feeling alone? • Can earn 6,400 NIS per month from the situation Yitzhak Dzuri, a yeshiva student staying at the hotel, said in a conversation with Haredim 10: "I've been at the Dan Hyatt Jerusalem Hotel since last Shabbat. While 'Dan Panorama' has become a hotel only for yeshiva students, the situation at our hotel is that gradually, mostly girls are coming in instead of boys. We are not interested in being here, and want to move to 'Dan Panorama'. "I called all the Shas MKs, they said they would get back to me, but no one got back to me. Only MK Michael Malchieli came back and said that the evacuation from hotel to hotel by ambulance costs 1,000 shekels and besides, he will arrange everything for me. We tried to talk to the Home Front Command and they turned us down.". When did the turning point come that there were more girls in the motel? "Since Sunday evening. I started dealing with the issue yesterday, but I couldn't do anything. Until now, I've been trying to go to a motel that suits us - yeshiva boys, not stay in a motel with girls.". Have you spoken to your health insurance company?  "There is no response from them. The Home Front Command told me that only with permission from the cash register can one move from one motel to another. And if I want to move - then only with permission and that I will pay for the evacuation. There is no such thing as not paying, that's what they said. I explained to them that I cannot stay here from a religious perspective, that it is not appropriate. There are 5 yeshiva students here, we all tried to move and they did not approve us. Only one guy who has a kidney transplant is fighting with his cash register to allow him to move. "Yeshiva students do not come here anymore. It is inexplicable why they do not move us." The IDF spokesman's response: "The two mentioned motels for convalescents are motels intended for the haredi public - and as such, among other things, they serve fancy kosher food, they do not have wireless internet and there are no cables. The motel staff and the Home Front Command are doing everything they can to provide the best service to those recovering in the motels." The Home Front Command notes that there is no such definition of a 'yeshiva student motel', and that it is possible that women will also be admitted to the second motel tomorrow.