By COLlive reporter
Some 13 containers of koyshalach – binders used to hold together the Lulav, Hadasim and Aravos during Sukkos – arrived on Thursday in Israel.
The shipment contains tens of thousands of units that will be used during the upcoming Sukkos holiday by most observant Jews in the Holy Land (Chabad chassidim use rings instead).
But not everyone is happy with the option.
Israel’s Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich, from the religious Zionist Yamina alliance, is calling on the public not use them because they are made by Arab residents of Gaza.
“I urge the public not to buy this product,” he wrote on Thursday. “This is a mitzvah haba’ah baviera (a Mitzvah observed while sinning). We will not take the Daled Minim and finance our enemy.”
The koyshalach were transferred at the Kerem Shalom crossing through Israel’s Coordination and Liaison Administration for Gaza. Its director Uri Medar disagreed.
“This is a wonderful example of the steps we take year-round,” he said. “(These are) good measures for agriculture and help the markets on both sides, Israeli and Palestinian.”
VIDEO: How koyshalach are made
Israeli will charge a lot for this kind of job so let all do by themselves as they were doing many years ago or hire a yid and pay him decent salary
do everything the sephardi/Chabad way 🙂
Its allowing people to make some money. Maybe if the economy was better they would have less to be Angry at Israeli government officials for
These arabs want destruction of israel not more money. Money going into gaza goes to hamas not poor arabs. Millions of dollars are sent by quatar to gaza every month of which almost all goes to hamas. The money is allowed in to stop rockets and terror balloons causing fires in israel and riots every friday of 10,000 at the border fence. Every week they try to break thru the fence. The money does stop them
Perhaps those who don’t, will be given more hope if they see that the Jews don’t hate them.
Also some might be Jews, due to kidnappings and forced intermarriages.
if Hamas was merely very annoyed at us and just wanted to throw shoes at us and spit in our coffee. Disgusting and disrespectful but not the complete end of the world.
But when they actually want to kill us, no you can’t really take chances like that since Hamas is in control of the people.
Who is tax being paid to? PA, Hamas, Israel, no tax? If no tax, or tax goes to Israel, let people live! every individual regardless of political beliefs are allowed to live and make a living.
I remember hearing that the palm leaves for the lulov come from gaza as well. I hope not
Whatever money goes into gaza goes to hamas
We can’t stand when others do this to us but have no qualms doing it to others. Hypocrisy…
…maybe it has something to do with the Gazans firing rockets at Israel, and they and the other Palestinians celebrating their “martyrs” who kill Jews, whereas Israel does neither? Your moral equivalence is at best naive and at worst disgusting.
We don’t want BDS. We shouldn’t do it to others. Maybe using the binders for a mitzva will elevate the area they are from for more mitzvos.
stop giving them money to kill Jews
Every day someone works making a lulav binder is one less day they have to work in the tunnels to earn a few shekel. And since there are no ‘work accidents’ while making binders, maybe they remark, see there can be another way. And then they remember the old days before the intifada and Hamas, when Gazan Arabs had real jobs, and their lives were undeniably a million times better, even though there were thriving Jewish communities in Gaza and they all lived under a “Zionist” government.