As prominent rabbinical figures continued to condemn violence in protests against the government lockdown, civil and police officials have been working on a plan to restore calm.
Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said on Monday: “There is no justification for violent acts and that should stop immediately,” adding that their actions “aren’t in the name of the Torah.”
Shas Council of Sages President Rabbi Shalom Cohen published a letter castigating violence in the streets of a Torah community as a “chilul Hashem.”
Rabbi Cohen issued a “stern warning” to keep yourselves away from these places of conflict.”