Israel’s two chief rabbis have proposed a solution for the nation’s problems. In advertisements published in the daily press yesterday, they appealed for special prayers to end drought, road accidents and disease.
Borrowing from the Yom Kippur liturgy — “Repentance, Prayer and Charity can avert the evil decree” — the Chief Rabbis declared: “In the wake of events recently witnessed in our country, we now suffer drought, the scourge of road accidents, an increase in serious disease unseen in generations, senseless hatred, dissension and outrageous desecration of the Sabbath. “They urged that the special prayers be recited before the start of the new Hebrew calendar month.
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