As I wrote many times, Charedim hate each other's guts, and now there is a civil war within the Agudas Yisrael.
The difference between civil wars in Chiloni Parties and Chardedie Parties is that Charedim use violence, threats and intimidation!
The escalating internal battle within Agudas Yisroel spilled into the streets Sunday night when MK Meir Porush was physically attacked by a group of individuals following a Simchas Bais Hashoeivah in Kiryat Gat.
Porush had attended the Simchas Bais Hashoeivah of the Kretschnif chassidus, where he was seated prominently at the mizrach alongside the Kretschnifer Rebbe. According to reports, shortly after the event concluded and Porush left the gathering, a group that had been waiting outside confronted and attacked him.
The incident reportedly was not spontaneous. According to Kikar HaShabbat, messages had circulated beforehand on internal communication lines identified with the Ger chassidus calling on people to come to the location because Porush would be attending the event.
The confrontation comes amid an extraordinary rupture within Agudas Yisroel following the establishment of Chomas Toras Yisroel, the new political faction formed by Porush, representing Shlomei Emunim, together with Belzer representative Eliakim Stark.
Earlier Sunday, Porush participated in a founding gathering for the new faction in Bnei Brak, where representatives of the participating communities gathered as the new political framework moves forward ahead of the elections.
Stark addressed the gathering and spoke sharply about what he described as the failures of the existing political leadership in protecting the Torah world.
“We did not succeed in the most basic mission, of protecting yeshiva students and kollel avreichim,” Stark said, calling for renewed unity around a political approach aimed at protecting the Olam HaTorah.
The creation of Chomas Toras Yisroel represents one of the most significant internal changes within United Torah Judaism in decades. Under the new arrangement, Porush and Stark are operating through a separate political framework while remaining part of the broader United Torah Judaism list.
The move followed months of mounting friction within Agudas Yisroel, particularly between Porush and figures associated with Ger, over control of party finances, representation and the allocation of political resources.
In an interview ahead of Sukkos, Porush publicly explained why he believed the split had become necessary.
“What happened with the handling of the funds in Agudat Yisrael, public funds that belong to the public, is something that is forbidden to do and that I could no longer remain silent about,” Porush said.
According to Porush, the dispute stretches back years.
“For years, and essentially since the changing of the guard, when my late father resigned from his activities in the leadership of Agudat Yisrael, all the funds were controlled by one individual, who was appointed by the Central Faction,” he said.
Porush alleged that the arrangement resulted in “a completely illogical allocation of party resources, an unfair distribution of positions, and more.”
The bitter dispute over the new faction has unfolded alongside another controversy involving the future political direction of Agudas Yisroel.
Recent reports have claimed that figures within Ger have been considering how the faction would respond to the possible formation of a government headed by Gadi Eisenkot. One report claimed that Yitzchok Goldknopf might abstain rather than vote against an Eisenkot-led minority government, fueling speculation that elements within Agudas Yisroel could move away from their longstanding political alignment with Netanyahu.
Goldknopf subsequently responded by setting out conditions for Agudas Yisroel’s participation in or support for any government.
“Agudat Yisrael will not support the establishment of a government and will not provide outside support to any government without resolving the status of yeshiva students and passing a draft law without sanctions and without quotas,” Goldknopf said.
UTJ chairman MK Yaakov Asher similarly sought to distance the party from speculation that its decisions would be driven by personalities or political retaliation.
“United Torah Judaism has no desire to bring down or crown anyone, and we do not act out of revenge or other interests,” Asher said.
12 comments:
More like DIN wants very much for y’all to believe that all Charedim hate each others guts so he seizes this Red Herring with Porush to jump up & down with. Porush is long known to be a corrupt sleaze, azoy veit that it’s miraculous that most people of any political stripe haven’t beaten the crap out of him more often
10:26
"Red Herring????"
Well that Herring must have been a big fish!
Just in one week,....... In Ponovitz, the Bnei_teirah beat the living daylight out of a Roshei Yeshiva, Rav Feivelson,
and now they beat the crap out of Porush!
I don't have enough space to write about the constant violence they perpetrate against Klall Yisrael and now we see, against each other!
When do you learn Torah, seeing you're a super yenta who knows about everybody's business true or not. Seems you read everything that can include loshon hara anywhere in the world. The Smartphone is your best buddy.
12:02
I get most of my info from concerned readers who email me articles.
It is not Loshon Hara because that info has already been posted to thousands .
And if you want less Loshon Hara tell your Frum buddies to behave like civilized mentchin!
Classic Urban 20th century sociology?
When people live on top of each other and in crowded environments like Israel, they end of beating each other up more often.Would you rather they all make yerida?So should you.Better for the spleen!
They're violent in this rather benign way,
because they don't have the means to destroy people's lives in a flash like the deep state & organized crime do for the secular public-beyond exponentially worse!
This isn't nice (& Ger are of the worst), but what would you want them to do instead? Play sports? { until you clean up your parochial vulgar Army-state dismiss it out of the question}
Beating people is their love language.
Classic psychological deflection and gaslighting and victimhood playing.
Blame your sadism on someone else and think you can get away with it. Playing hopscotch with their mothers is actually a good sports idea.
“When they eat their own”
Azoy shteht there was no bigger Simcha than the beating of the other chassidim
Love it. Come to the site to read all the posts and then accuse DIN of Loshon Hara. If you truly believe it is Loshon Hara that you are reading (on your smartphone phone), why are you here reading and posting?
DIN is obsessed with casting all Charedim supposedly being at each other’s throats. It’s all a convenient smokescreen while that’s what his own shnit actually do on the sly, like the smear campaign that Ben Gvir was just caught doing to Smotrich
9:03
Bobov vs Bobov, Satmar vs Satmar, Ger vs Ger, Ponovitz vs Ponovetz, Sadegera vs Sadegera, Peleg vs all other Yesivishe Sects!
And I'm the one obsessed!
You guys are Bnei-Teira, the Holy Jews, but now you yourself don't believe that anymore, do you?
Because you are comparing political rivals like Ben Gvir and Smotrich to the Holy Roshei Yeshivas of Slabodka and Ponovitz!
I agree with you that there is no difference between Rav Landau and Ben Gvir< rav Landau smeared Jewish Children in Uniform and Ben Gvir smeared Smotrich
B"h we are on the same page!
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