Yated Ne’eman, the largest selling haredi daily newspaper in the world and the mouthpiece of the non-hasidic half of the Ashkenazi haredi United Torah Judaism political party, ignored the attack [against the Orthodox IDF soldier in Mea Shearim allegedly committed by a mob of haredim] entirely, but gave space on Sunday in its editorial to denounce haredim who attended and participated in the torch lighting ceremony at the end of Israel's Remembrance Day for fallen IDF soldiers and terror victims on Wednesday night, which was also the beginning of Israel's 67th Independence Day. “What is clear today is that there is not one shred of haredi-ness left in [those purported haredim,] Yated Ne'eman wrote.
The Jerusalem Post reports:
…Yated Ne’eman, the largest selling haredi daily newspaper [in the world and the mouthpiece of the non-hasidic half of the Ashkenazi haredi United Torah Judaism political party] ignored the attack [against the Orthodox IDF soldier in Mea Shearim allegedly committed by a mob of haredim] entirely, but gave space on Sunday in its editorial to denounce haredim who attended and participated in the torch lighting ceremony at the end of Remembrance Day [for fallen IDF soldiers and terror victims] on Wednesday night [,which was also the beginning of Israel's 67th Independence Day].
It described haredim who participate in remembrance events and celebrate Independence Day as being at the “extreme margins” of haredi society “and perhaps even outside of the margins” despite dressing in traditional haredi garb of black suits, white shirts and black hats.
“What is clear today is that there is not one shred of haredi-ness left in them,” read Yated Ne’eman’s editorial.
“A Jew who trembles at the word of God has no connection to heretical celebrations, events that that shout about ‘my strength and the power of my hand,’ an event that denies in its very essence the fact that there is a Creator to the creation and it is He who leads it,” the newspaper wrote.