The civil court has handing down an order to shut down two batei knesses in Rishon LeZion, thus carrying on the religious harassment resulting from small mindedness and jealousy of the great thirst for spirituality on the upswing throughout the country.
Like in many other places in Israel, the increasing thirst has made its appearance in the major city of Rishon LeZion, resulting in the establishment of two shuls already filled with worshipers. But the frightened secularists look askance, fearing the rapid and impressive spread of chareidism — which is actually taking place. After several disgusting attempts to stop the trend, they finally succeeded in getting the courts to issue an order to close down the new shul in the exclusive neighborhood of Neveh Yam.
This shul has actually already been operating for several years, serving the entire eastern section of the neighborhood.
This synagogue was not the only one on the agenda of the vehement secularists. They succeeded in shutting down another shul, hardly a kilometer away, on Rechov Harafsodah, also with a court order.
The rationale given was that the shuls disturb the residents. Pained residents responded: "We haven't seen them close down a restaurant or noisy place, lehavdil, on the grounds that they disturb the residents, but they gleefully shut down a shul, denying the basic need of a Jew [for a place to pray]."
The municipality has already designated an alternate place for a shul in a nearby kindergarten, to be given over at the end of the school year, and meanwhile the shul has found temporary quarters in the apartment of one of its members.
