This story has me in stitches!
The "heiliger" Chareide menhalim who organize asifas against the internet, snuck into the website of the Ministry of Transportation and found out which of their students had driver licenses and threw them the hell out!
What is their problem with a bochur having a driver's license?
They are afraid that he will have easy access to transportation and be able to travel to the bars in Tel Aviv and have a good time, and then drive back nonchalantly to the Bais Medrish to resume shuckling over the gemarrah., no one the wiser.
It seems that the "internet peaking" tzaddikim finally emerged from underneath their rocks, and discovered "Lo and Behold" that an epidemic of their "shtarker learners" are a bunch of fakes, frauds and phonies, not of any fault of their own as they are forced to sit in a place they don't want to be, but they couldn't tell which ones were "bar-hopping" and which were serious learners, since they all look alike and they all "shuckle."
Instead of following the advice of Harav Shach z"l whose opinion was that those who are not serious learners, should not be exempt from the Army or following the advice of Harav Hagoen R' Dovid Leibel shlitah that bochrim should get the choice of getting a secular education and get a job, they decided to just throw them out!
Why use this sneaky method?
Yeshivas are a business and they need bochrim, I mean bodies, so that they can get more government $$$$$$$$$$! They cannot embrace an idea that would give their students an option to legitimately not be part of this corrupt system, they would rather single out a couple of "bad apples" even if this means destroying the shidduch prospects of these bochrim, having baggage that they were" thrown out!" The Manhalim don't really care about the souls of these Bochrim; it's all about numbers!
Just yesterday, I was at a wedding in Yerushalyim and arrived just as a "big" Rosh Yeshiva from Bnei Brak arrived chauferred by guess who?? A bochur with a driver's license, how do I know? Because this bochur lives in my neighborhood. So, what's pshat? They will still keep a "sheigetz" or two to drive them around.
These same "internet" Roshei Yeshivas are now secretly fighting a law that was offered recently to lower the age of IDF recruits. Now, the law is that if someone hits 26, he can go to work if he received a "petur" from the army, and is no longer hounded by the Zionists. The new law if passed will lower the age from 21 - 23.
Nice?
You would think, but the R"Y are against this. They told Gafni to shelve it this part of the law.
Goldknupf from the Aguda,on the other hand, doesn't care either way as the Chassidim wouldn't mind working sooner.
You would think that the R"Y would celebrate this as the bochrim will not need a deferment once they reach 22 or 23, but they are fighting this! Why? You guessed it, they are frightened that this new "gezirah" will diminish their learner population! Turns out that this IDF recruitment business is good business for the R"Ys and who knew that secretly they love the "Geuis Gezirah", because as long as the Zionists recruit for the IDF the more bochrim will inevitably fill the shtenders, albeit the few with driver licenses
Zionists are now on the same page as the Roshei Yeshivas, you live and learn!
A security weakness in the Ministry of Transportation's identification system allowed access to the personal information of students from haredi yeshivas all over Israel through the ministry's telephone answering service and website.
Complaints received by the Authority for the Protection of Privacy testified that staff members at haredi yeshivas took advantage of the weakness of the identification system to find out which students had a driver's license. Students with a driver's license were expelled from yeshiva.
To find out whether a student holds a driver's license, one needs to contact the hotline of the Ministry of Transportation or use the website and select the option to get a copy of a license.
The applicant has to enter an ID number and date of birth, details that every student submits during registration, allowing anyone with those details to check if the individual in question has a license.
From the inspection procedure carried out by the Authority, it emerged that the Ministry of Transportation's computerized systems did not use sufficient identification safeguards to verify a person's identity.
In the violation letter that the Authority for the Protection of Privacy sent last month to the Ministry of Transportation, it states that information that a person holds a driver's license is information protected under the Privacy Protection Law, and constitutes at the very least "information about a person's private affairs."
In the violation letter, the Authority stated that the Ministry of Transportation violated its duty as a public body not to provide information about a person from a public database to someone who is not the subject of the information and without the consent of the subject of the information. The Authority also determined that the existing identification system in the Ministry of Transportation's computer systems does not comply with the provisions of the law and regulations. In doing so, the Ministry of Transportation violates its duty to adequately protect the public's information.
In the letter, the Authority emphasizes that "handing over this type of information to an anonymous individual, without the consent of the subject of the information, constitutes a distinct violation of privacy, all the more so where it manifests itself in a substantial harm during the life of the subject of the information, by way of removing him from the yeshiva where he studies, wth all that is implied by that".
If this is true, it has a potential to be a criminal scandal - both for the Ministry allowing the information to be accessed and the R"Y's who accessed it, violating the bochur's privacy.
ReplyDeleteBut here's the even stupider thing - have you seen traffic in Israel? Seriously, if I'm in Jerusalem and want a drink in Tel Aviv, it's quicker to take the train.
So this is a criminal scandel - for the Ministry for not guarding the information appropriately, for the R"Y's for committing privacy breaches by looking up confidential information, and for the bochurs who think that driving to Tel Aviv and paying for parking is cheaper and faster than taking the train and a taxi.
ReplyDelete1) yaawwwnnn! This is a very old news story.
ReplyDelete2) This is a very immature slant (even for you). Did anyone ever claim, that no one under any circumstance should ever use Internet for anything? You think anyone thinks that???
Now , just because there can be needs for Internet does that mean that everyone should have unfiltered access , and you can’t make an aside???
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ReplyDeleteListen yukel,
1) this is not a "news site" this is a blog ...helllllllloooow?
And this particular story that the R"Y that organize asifas are themselves on the internet is actually a "breaking story"
2) The "asifas" actually "claim" that the internet is "prohibited" under "any circumstances" even with a filter. Did you ever attend one? Seems like you like to shoot off your trap without any knowledge of the subject
3) at the asifas they make it very clear that there isn't any "asides"
But how does hunting for "driver license guys" give them a heter to be on the internet? And to get on the Ministry of Transportation you cannot have a filter.
You really gotta get out head outta your beit shemesh sandbox.
DeleteName 1 Yeshiva that doesn’t use ANY form of Internet. Not even for a phone line - not for email- nothing. Name one.
Secondly, speak to any Rav or any therapist in any frum community and ask them what damage Internet has done. So what do YOU propose is the solution?