I would like to know which genius came up with the mantra
"We would rather die than enlist"?
We need to grab him and hang him up in the town square!
Well, someone did get killed, are they happy now?
Know that the 14 year-old, Yosef Eisenthal z"l did not die for the "cause" and didn't die "Al Kiddush Hashem" like the IDF Soldiers, he died in vain!
I'm now waiting for a Gadol to tell the bereaved mother of Yosef "He died al Kiddush Hashem" ! That would be an unmitigated lie! This was a needless and reckless death!
There are news reports that the Gedoilim are now blaming the bus driver, everyone but themselves, they sent children into the "fires" without supervision, eyewitnesses are stating the teenagers harassed the Arab driver and spat at him! I am not justifying what the driver did, he should be charged with murder, but Gedoilim have to be charged with incitement!
I know I'm going to get comments like "Well, don't you believe that everything is from HKB"H? It was bashert"
Yes, of course I believe that everything is from Hashem, but you know who doesn't believe it?
The Gedoilim that organize these protests!
If they believed that everything is from the RBS"O they would not have any illegal protests but instead have their students learn an extra hour!
They don't believe that the RBS"O controls the world at all! They are by in large a bunch of power-hungry R"Y and they want to control the narrative! They believe sincerely that they run the world!
Fourteen-year-old Yosef Eisenthal was killed and three others injured after a bus struck pedestrians during a haredi protest against military conscription in Jerusalem.
A preliminary police investigation found the driver was attacked by rioters blocking the road before the fatal incident. The driver was arrested for questioning as authorities investigate the circumstances.
The protest descended into violent clashes, including road blockages, vandalism, and attacks on police and journalists.
Update: Israeli police said Wednesday that the bus driver called the emergency police hotline minutes before the collision, reporting that he was under attack. The driver repeated that account during questioning, investigators said.
Below is a letter from a Chardedie grandmother who witnessed what was going on!
Dear Matzav Inbox,
I was there tonight at the draft protest in Yerushalayim. I am not repeating rumors, headlines, or social media hysteria. I watched it unfold with my own eyes. I am a chareidi grandmother, and what I saw was shameful, reckless, and utterly leaderless.
Hundreds of boys — children — were running wild in the streets. They were jumping on buses and cars, blocking traffic, and preventing drivers from moving. There were no parents in sight. No rabbonim. No roshei yeshiva. No adults taking responsibility. No one stopping this disgraceful chaos.
Garbage bins were dragged into the road and set on fire. Plastic sheets were slapped across bus windshields, blinding drivers until they struggled to rip them off. Buses full of chareidi passengers were stuck for twenty minutes or more, held hostage by unsupervised, out-of-control boys who clearly had no idea what they were doing or the danger they were creating.
The bus drivers tried — desperately — to maneuver through the madness without hurting anyone. They were surrounded, harassed, blocked, and endangered. This was not a “peaceful protest.” It was anarchy.
And then the unthinkable happened.
People put themselves in front of a vehicle in a lawless situation that should never have been allowed to develop.
And what happened afterward was perhaps the most horrifying part of all.
After the incident, boys were singing and dancing in the middle of the road. Singing. Dancing. As if nothing had happened. As if a life had not just been lost. It is now past midnight as I write this to you at Matzav News and they are still there. Still no parents. Still no rabbonim. Still no melamdim. Still no adults willing to step in and say: Enough.
If this is what protest looks like, then someone must finally ask the obvious question: Where was the leadership? Who allowed children to be sent into the streets with no supervision, no guidance, and no boundaries? Who thought this was acceptable, let alone justified?
This was not mesirus nefesh. It was abandonment.
Tragedies do not happen in a vacuum. They happen when responsibility is shrugged off, when adults disappear, and when children are left to play with fire — sometimes literally.
If we do not have the courage to tell the truth about what went down tonight, then we will see this again. And next time, the price may be even higher.
Enough with the slogans. Enough with the posturing.
It is time for accountability.
Bella Abraham, A Bubby in Yerushalayim
And this from Emeilim
R’ Yitzchok Zilberstein שליט״א writes that one who parks illegally and thereby blocks or slows the flow of traffic is considered גוזל את הרבים—one who robs the public, a wrongdoing that cannot truly be repaid.
Over the past few years, we have seen hundreds of video clips of bachurim and yungerleit sitting in the middle of streets, blocking traffic and preventing it from moving.
They sincerely believe that they are acting with מסירות נפש for a just cause and performing a mitzvah, even though they are causing harm to others and, at times, creating actual סכנה, such as preventing ambulances from passing.
Unfortunately, their Roshei Yeshivos, Rabbeim, and educators have not taught them that merely participating in an illegal demonstration involves at least two serious prohibitions: חילול השם and גזילת הרבים. These are among the עבירות that are exceptionally difficult—if not nearly impossible—to fully do תשובה for.
The yeshivos in Eretz Yisrael are in grave danger today. Many place the blame on the secular Zionists, viewing them as the cause of the potential tragedy that may, חס ושלום, befall on תורת ארץ ישראל.
Yet few recognize that the secular Zionists are not the cause, but rather the stick in the hand of Hashem, sent to deliver a message—calling upon us, the בני תורה, to correct what we ourselves have done wrong.
Perhaps the message is that we must teach the sugyos of חילול השם and גזל הרבים to our bachurim and yungerleit. Otherwise, חס ושלום, Hashem may be telling us that He has no interest in our learning of the rest of the Torah:
“מי ביקש זאת מידכם.”
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Take responsibility? The Chareidi leadership and their Knesset allies are already screaming that this is 100% on the bus driver and proof that the Chilonim want to kill them all.
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