Yediot: "200 Haredim in BBQ" • Kol Israel Editor: not true

The media noise caused by a group of Haredi youth who made a barbecue yesterday at Sacher Park, with Yedioth Ahronoth reporting about a group of no less than 200 Haredim who celebrated at the place – is slowly being exposed as excessive and reckless incitement.

Yotam Barzani, news editor at the Voice of Israel, read yesterday in the Facebook Status posted by Ran Melamed, executive director of "Yedid" organization: "The day before Holocaust Day. Sacher Park in Jerusalem looks like a giant barbecue of Haredim. The smoke of the barbecues covers the road and the youngsters are cheering. Shame. Picture soon. "

In response Barzani decided to go and check.

"What a lack of sensitivity, it can not be", I said to myself, he wrote this morning (Monday) in his Facebook. "Less than an hour later I was on my way home, I stopped in to see if the description is true.

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"I even told myself that if I do find that Sacker Park looks like a giant barbecue I immediately report to the news bulletin, so that the news will go on air in the next edition. At 23:05 I saw one barbecue at the park, and if I count all those I saw (five or six groups) I get to 35 people.

"At the lighted soccer field there were about 30 people, and I do not think they were haredi. This leaves us with two options: either the giant barbecue ended before I came, or Melamed exaggerated. In the photograph he published later one can see 13 people making a barbecue. It seems to me that the second possibility is correct. Sinas chinam (hatred for no reason) annoys me so much," he concludes.

The journalist Noam Zigman wrote this morning: "So either the photojournalist who went down last night to Sacher Park did not know to catch the angles. Or simply were not even 20 stupid who made a BBQ. There is no better image than to photograph a mass of haredim (200 is not a small mass for a picture) making on the fire. So once and for all - enough with the incitement against a whole sector. It's guaranteed that if it was a demonstration of the Right or Haredim, the people wound be counted again and again so as not to even get to 20. Shame. A shame that even on a day which should unite, there are those who find a way how to separate " .

Yediot Aharonot reporter, Danny Edina - Ababa who issued this morning the report, said in response to Behadrey Haredim: "I and Nahum Barnea walked around yesterday for an hour and a half in the park and we saw with our own eyes the images. Everyone's right is to do whatever he wants and I can not contradict his actions. The explanations we received yesterday from those guys were outrageous and some of them were not published in the newspaper.

"I'm sure that a group does not represent a whole community and those are a handful of people. I'm against generalizations and I believe there are thousands of Haredi people to whom the Holocaust Memorial Day is a day that touches them both on the personal and national level, but such a group even if it will count 20 Haredim, is a shame which one has to protest about in every way".

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