Tens of hundreds of ultra-Orthodox youngsters returned to “Talmud Torah” elementary, and “yeshiva ketana” excessive colleges, on Sunday, in defiance of the federal government determination to maintain instructional establishments in red-zone cities closed. Youngsters within the cities of Bnei Brak, Elad, Modiin Illit, and Beitar Illit, are thought-about to be dwelling in red-zone areas resulting from excessive COVID-19 an infection charges. Included are some Jerusalem neighborhoods as properly. The scholars reportedly returned to their research regardless of the federal government’s directions.This improvement occurred over the weekend, and because of a decision by Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, one of many two most senior rabbis within the ultra-Orthodox non-hassidic neighborhood, to instruct such colleges to reopen whatever the authorities’s choices. Kanievsky didn’t difficulty a blanket order or public assertion on the matter, however when ultra-Orthodox college principals requested whether or not they need to open or not, he instructed them to do open.Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, the opposite most senior rabbi within the sector, has been considerably extra cautious responded to the principals that they need to not come into battle with the federal government and police, however to open colleges if attainable. Many hassidic colleges have additionally opened as properly. Elementary colleges within the Sephardi ultra-Orthodox sector haven’t opened, in keeping with the ruling of Rabbi Shalom Cohen, president of the Shas Council of Torah Sages, a choice affecting some 50,000 youngsters.
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