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NEWS
Protests Against Chilul Shabbos in Bnei Brak
by A. Cohen
On Shabbos afternoon 29 Adar, scores of avreichim
from the Pardes Katz and Kiryat Herzog neighborhoods
demonstrated outside of the Kishurit-Ma'aneh Iski offices on
Yarkon Street in Bnei Brak, protesting the company's weekly
Shabbos desecration.
The demonstration came in the wake of appeals by communal
leaders to Michael Sherman, manager of Kishurit-Ma'aneh
Iski, not to operate on Shabbos and yomim tovim.
Bnei Brak Deputy Mayor Rabbi Shmuel Levinger and Rabbi
Shmuel Friedman of the Municipal Council recently informed
Sherman of the severity in which the Municipality views this
breach in the city's Shabbos. But despite numerous appeals,
work has continued on Shabbos. City rabbonim have said that
if the Shabbos desecration does not stop, thousands of Bnei
Brak residents will demonstrate in front of the Kishurit
offices. Bnei Brak's tens of thousands of residents will
staunchly oppose attempts by various commercial ventures to
undermine the Shabbos.
Local communal leaders have appealed to the chareidi Knesset
members to take immediate measures to terminate all business
connections between Kishurit- Ma'aneh Iski and government
corporations until the company agrees to stop its Shabbos
desecration.
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