Thousands of haredim are reportedly expected to take part in a major
ceremony Sunday night to welcome the Williamsburg Satmar Rebbe Rabbi
Zalman Leib Teitlebaum, who is arriving on a visit from New York. The ceremony will also double as a protest against the Zionist government and the looming military draft of haredim.
Thousands Of Haredim Expected At Jerusalem Welcome Ceremony For Satmar Rebbe
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Thousands of haredim are reportedly expected to take part in a major ceremony Sunday night to welcome the Williamsburg Satmar Rebbe Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitlebaum, who is arriving on a visit from New York.
The ceremony will also double as a protest against the Zionist government and the looming military draft of haredim.
This is Teitelbaum’s first trip since he became rebbe on death of father several years ago. It coincides with the Israel wedding of one of Teitelbaum’s grandchildren and a cornerstone-laying ceremony for a new Satmar community being built in the Ramat Elchanan neighborhood of Bnei Brak.
Teitelbaum has already offered to pay any haredi $100 if he promises not to vote in Tuesday’s national elections and deposits his identity documents at designated Satmar locations for the day to prevent cheating. He also offered to pay yeshivas a much larger amount of money for promising that all their students would boycott the elections and similarly turn over their identity papers for the day. He promised to arrive in Israel carrying tens of thousands of dollars in cash.
A religious freedom and equality advocacy organization, Hiddush, has asked police to arrest Teitelbaum on arrival in Israel for violating Israel’s elections law.
In response, Teitelbaum’s aides leaked a story claiming that Teitelbaum would arrive in Israel with several “American senators” to prevent Israel from making an arrest.
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