As you guys know, I made Aliyah about 7 weeks ago and live in Bet Shemesh, so I can give you the scoop so to speak.....
Bet Shemesh is a city growing very fast, and there is constant construction to make room for thousands of Israelis that need homes....
Bet Shemesh is the perfect place, its 25 minutes from Yerusalayim, great transportation, has large malls, many Yeshivos, and has plans for a Hospital in the very near future..
And there are many different neighborhoods so that every one can find their place ...
There is Bet Shemesh itself, then there is Ramat Bet Shemesh Alef that caters to everyone...Yeshivash ... Chassidish, Sfardim, Mizrachists etc
Remat Bet Shemesh Bais is where the fanatics live ....
This group of fanatics are so extreme that a lot of them were thrown out even from Meah Shearim!
Have you heard about any protests in their neighborhood????
Naaaaaa! You won't hear about any protests in their neighborhood, Why????
Because there aren't any!!!!!!
Do you think that aren't any bones buried in any part of Remat Bet Shemesh Bais?????
Oh .... you think that when the Chashmoniem fought in Bet Shemesh ... they said to one another .... lets not bury any Jews in Ramat Bet Shemesh Bais .... because 2,500 years later the fanatics will live there.
When Shimshon Hagibor who is buried in Bet Shemesh with his father Manoach .... fought the Philistines .... you think that when some of his army got killed they said ...
"Hey Shimshon" You can't bury Jews in Ramat Bet Shemesh Bais ... the fanatics will live there..... bury them in Alef, or Gimmel..
the Mizrachists will live there!!!
So why isn't there any protests there????
Because by in large, the developers are Chareidim and the developers of Ramat Bet Shemesh Bais are from the extremists themselves who pay off the loudmouths and so there is never any protests in the areas where the extremists live ...
They are now building a road, Route 38 that will lead to a new area called Ramat Bet Shemesh Daled....
The ones building the roads is the Bet Shemesh municipality ....
get it???? so there isn't any developers getting the bribes to shut them up...
That is basically the politics in a nut shell ...... the leaders of these protests are all fakers and fraudsters ...
Israel is over 4,000 thousand years old and wherever you will dig you will find bones ....
If you took all this seriously ... you wouldn't be able to build anywhere!
I remember as a teenager, there was a corner in Meah Shearim that was "muchzik" as an old cemetery and every Shabbos they would protest at that corner and never allowed any developers to develop that corner .....
In 1973 I visited that area and guess what's on that corner????
Naaaaaa!
Guess again.......
Are we going to play this game again?
Tell me now...... I'm sitting on shpilkas....
Ok Ok ..... give me a chance to catch my breath ....
Sit down now .... and put down that hot coffee ....
Satmar Bais Medrish ...... Ha ha
I'm not kidding..... there is a Satmar Bais Medrish in the exact place where it was "muchzik" as a cemetery .....