Dear Gideon,
I am usually in 100% agreement with what you write, but not this time. You have converted the really serious issue of Haredim taking over secular or mixed neighborhoods--which has happened and continues to happen in many places in Israel--into some kind of ideological, "anti-semitic" crusade on the part of Tel Aviv liberals. You write:
"What kind of pressure, exactly? Why, for God`s sake? Why the fear? Don`t Haredim, like any minority, have the right to live in the neighborhood?"
This is terribly naive, to say the least, and completely misses the point.
I think that the issue is clearly not one of being anti-haredim or being against their civil rights to live where they might want to. Rather, the central issue here is one based on a long and clear reading of what has been happening in Israel over the years where one neighborhood after another has become Haredi resulting in the flight of all other groups form that neighborhood. |
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