Greater investment in Jewish institutions can help restore a “Jewish character” to areas of south Tel Aviv that have seen a high influx of African migrants in recent years, activists said Tuesday, during the dedication of a national-religious establishment in the Shapira neighborhood. “The goal is to bring back the Jews who lived here and restore these places that they prayed in. Unfortunately, it’s common for people to talk about taking care of the Eritreans and Sudanese, but we need to worry about the Jews first, and this is the goal of the hesder yeshiva,” Deputy Religious Services Minister Eli Ben-Dahan (Bayit Yehudi) said at a short ceremony to mark the opening of a hesder yeshiva branch at the corner of Frenkel Street and Tshelnov Street in south Tel Aviv.
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He said the approach to the African migrant issue must be to encourage their continued deportation while also helping provide for those who are already located inside Israel.
In a Mishpat L’am position paper on the issue, which Bareli handed out, the organization writes that Israel must first protect its ambition to be the Jewish homeland and “understand that at the moment there is no place to include a foreign population.”
The paper also includes a passage from the Talmud stating that it is permitted to rent houses to gentiles in the Land of Israel as long as they do not form neighborhoods, which it defines as a grouping of three houses or more.
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Standing in the center of the dilapidated building as two workers – one of them an African migrant – carried out repair work, one of the Bayit Yehudi activists said the goal of the renovations and the opening of the hesder yeshiva offshoot is to increase the Jewish character of the neighborhood “and help draw back Jewish residents after the Sudanese and Eritreans leave.”
In late August, Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar (Likud) said that Israel would begin deporting Eritrean and Sudanese migrants after the High Holy Days.
Poster Comment:
Wow. Just wow.