Members of Kibbutz Maayan Baruch decided "No Synagogue"

Harsh struggle to establish a synagogue in Kibbutz Maayan Baruch, Channel 7 reported.

Maayan Baruch is a secular kibbutz in the north, in which a synagogue has never been built.

Recently land was sold for expansion. Shimon Hadari the football coach Hapoel Acco, moved there eight months ago.

Shimon, an observant person, asked to build a synagogue there, but was met with resistance. "I was shocked from the opposition," he said, "I never imagined that the Jews in Israel will fight such a thing. On election day they brought here the elderly on wheelchairs removed from their beds early in the morning, to vote against."

At the end of the vote the secular majority decided to reject the proposal. 68 voted in favor and 84 against.

"I'm still in shock," he said, "In my darkest dreams I never thought to see such scenes bringing the elderly in wheelchairs to vote against a synagogue, during the holocaust people died to pray here they are fighting against prayer. Now we are signing an online petition to build a synagogue here, we will not keep quiet and I promise there will be a synagogue here."

Meanwhile, a minyan is being held at the home of one of the members, "There are 42 percent of the traditional members, who want a synagogue, and now after 50 years we found a donor and put a Torah scroll into the member's home."

'בחדרי' גם ברשתות החברתיות - הצטרפו!