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Meretz Opposes "Chareidization" of Ramat Beit Shemesh

by Betzalel Kahn

Meretz has established a Secular Activities Committee which is waging a battle against the "chareidization of Ramat Beit Shemesh." Chadash, the local newspaper distributed in Beit Shemesh, reports that a handful of the neighborhood's secular residents invited MK Ran Cohen of Meretz to visit the neighborhood "in order to grant humanitarian support and to save the handful of secular people."

The committee has issued a manifesto among the residents which says that, "the private battle we are waging is over the future of our life in this place. With the occupying of Ramat Beit Shemesh it has become clear that there is a total change in the aim of the project, which constitutes an ever- increasing affront to the secular community which purchased apartments in this neighborhood, and points to the intention of the Housing Ministry to change the neighborhood's character."

Ramat Beit Shemesh chareidi activists totally reject these malicious remarks, made for purely political purposes. "The residents of the neighborhood know how to differentiate between those who seek their benefit and those who seek to wage personal battles on the backs of guileless people," they say.


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