In its report, the Israeli Ministry of Health revealed that the numbers of people infected with the new coronavirus in the ultra-Orthodox communities are the highest, compared to other cities, according to Israeli newspapers and websites.
The report said that the casualties in the "Haredi" Jewish communities in occupied Jerusalem and "Bnei Brak", respectively, the day before yesterday reached 352 and 300, while the maximum number in the first secular Jewish societies in which Haredi did not reside, in Tel Aviv on the same date To 211 injuries.
The report, published by "Haaretz" and other Israeli newspapers, attributed the increase to "the lack of adherence of the Jewish militants to the rules set by the Israeli Ministry of Health, as the militants continued their gatherings to perform rituals and prayers and participate in marriage ceremonies."
And clashes took place between the Israeli police and Jewish religious militants when the first sought to break up their gatherings in the past days.
For his part, Mayor of "Bani Park" Avraham Rosenstein, who is currently in quarantine, issued a statement in which he called on ultra-Orthodox Jews to adhere to government instructions.
"Unfortunately, there are 300 new cases of coronavirus in the town," the statement said. "This is a dangerous, devastating, and terrifying level. This is the time to wake up."
Israeli media had previously published reports about the challenge of the "Torah Vera" religious school, and one of the strongholds of hardline education for the "Haredi" sect, to the curfew law and the instructions for non-assembly issued to confront the emerging corona. The Times of Israel newspaper reported that prominent rabbis announced that they "will not abide by government regulations and their schools will remain open."
According to a report published by most of the Israeli media, a number of rabbis in Beni Park, including Chaim Kaynevsky, reached an agreement with the outgoing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, "to continue their prayers that the participants in the prayer should not exceed 10 individuals."
Rabbi Kaynevsky said earlier that the cancellation of the Torah study was more dangerous than corona.
On the other hand, several Jewish militant sites witnessed cohesion and clashes between hands between students and individuals from the "Haredi", members of the police, journalists, and families due to the non-compliance of the Jewish militants with the protection laws of Corona.
The Israeli police arrested four people at a wedding ceremony in which 150 Haredi Jews gathered in Beit Shmeis, in clear defiance of the decisions of the Israeli authority, after a clash between the families and the authorities, and among those arrested was the father of the bride, who was found to be coming from the United States of America. Subject to quarantine, according to the website of Behadri Haredim.
The police also raided another wedding ceremony in Beit Shmeis attended by 200 people, and Israeli channel 12 showed them pictures.
In the same context, hardline students in a school in Beni Shmeis confronted a journalist from Times of Israel and gathered around him to prevent him from taking pictures, using physical force, and one of the students told him, "We will not go home, this will not happen, the Torah will save us and protect us, we are not afraid."