Israelis protest medical state clamp-down as leaders enter quarantine

by Jordan Hilger, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – Protestors in Jaffa, Israel joined with a young man Wednesday who was accosted by police for defying government orders to not depart more than 328 feet from his home.

Dozens of protestors “arrived on the scene in an organized fashion with stones, tires and flammable materials,” according to police, burning tires and blocking roads to show solidarity with the man who had broken a state-ordered self-quarantine as well.

Four people were arrested as government rhetoric against the ultra-Orthodox Haredi and other Israelis questioning the near-total shut down of daily life has ramped up in recent days, with Health Minister Yaakov Litzman upbraiding the Haredi for opposing the medical state’s “holy work.”

Litzman later tested positive for coronavirus Wednesday, his former contact with top leadership forcing many other Israeli politicians, including Prime Minister Netanyahu, to enter quarantine and one anonymous senior minister to accuse him of “put[ting] all of our lives in danger” for praying at a synagogue, the Times of Israel reports.

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