FRANKFURT (VINnews) — A group of Israeli chareidim from Jerusalem received a permit to return to Israel despite the aerial lockdown due to a complex humanitarian issue. The chareidim, who had been in Morocco, managed by travelling through various different countries to reach Frankfurt airport, where all returning Israelis are being directed.
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However when the group arrived in Frankfurt, they were detained by German authorities in a secret place and not permitted to leave. Moreover, their passports were taken away from them. When some of them tried to leave and rest on one of the benches in the airport, the German staff woke them up every few minutes with strange demands.
The group decided to contact Uri Maklev, a Degel Hatorah member who serves as Israel’s deputy transport minister. Maklev spoke with the local rabbi and the German ambassador who provided all their needs for them and also acted with German authorities to enable the group to leave the country Sunday.
“It was antisemitism par excellence,” one of the chareidim said. “They saw that we are chareidi Jews and from the moment we entered the airport they didn’t stop harassing us and looking for ways to annoy us, it was simply pure hatred.”
When all the permits for the flight had been received, the Germans decided to delay the group, knowing that this would cause them to miss the only flight that day. Only a timely intervention by Maklev enabled the flight to be delayed for a while until the group was able to board.
It’s Germany.
Anyone surprised?
Have we forgot so soon??
As far as I am concerned, since May 8th 1945, as soon as WW2 was over, Germnay & Austria went into immediate permanent irrevocable חרם not just for 1000 years, but for ever.
Moral of the story, stay at home open a Sefer and stop looking for sensations by traveling around the world.
As the son of a man who spent 6.5 years running from Germans your comments broke my heart.
How incredibly sad.Let’s hear the German side.The pure hatred from one Jew(brother????) to another.We hate chareidim so much that we now want to hear what the Nazi’s say before making up our mind.
So disheartening.
I am not inclined to judge the Germans, may they be obliterated speedily in our days, loaf zchus.
I have traversed FRA airport at last 50 times. There are multiple sections, regulations and temporary dividers that are used. Germany has very strict rules forbidding the alleged activity, I can understand there were Covid and immigration concerns.
It might be an employee was overzealous, more likely they were preserving airport security and sterility.
Why would any Jew travel to Germany or even Morocco?
Something missing here
Leopards don’t change their swastikas.
I’m sure there’s more to this story.
German nazi bastards, yimach sh’mom v’zichrom lonetzach !
Look at the foto ,
The בהמות are not wearing masks!!!
There is something wrong here and missing el sl planes leave snd only this group was stopped hmm. Just wondering what ghetto did yo get this treatment
Perhaps keeping your mouth shut helps
Still better then the way they are treated by the Israeli savages
Germany is an easy target to blame for anti-semitism, and this article only portrays one side of the coin. Any intelligent reader would appreciate if both sides are covered.
I would like to read the German explanation. There may have been a reasonable basis for this.