Beit Shemesh mayor Aliza Bloch fired six of her council members, all members of United Torah Judaism (UTJ) and the Likud Party, on Sunday.
Bloch, the first female mayor to serve the majority haredi
(ultra-Orthodox) town, stated that she fired the six men on the grounds
that they failed to pass several important decisions during council
meetings, including in the education budget, which prevented money from
going towards new study spaces that are needed in several areas of the
city, all of them in haredi neighborhoods.
The chief rabbi's remarks drew criticism, especially on social media, in part because they ostensibly contradict the position of sages cited in the Babylonian Talmud and Halakha that a person should always strive to live in the Land of Israel - even in a city where most people were not Jews.
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Makes no sense. Why block money to their own neighbourhoods?
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