תיעוד נדיר: שגריר שוויץ משוחח עם גדול הדור מרן הרב משה הלל הירש באנגלית על הנהגת היהדות החרדית. 2024

is the role of thei uh parties in the government um I'm obviously aware of one big issue is the conscription of the service uh another one is the financial contribution to the education of the kedi community can you say me a bit how you see the situation right now with regard to the parties and how you see the the way forward and then I have a lot of other questions but maybe if uh if you agree uh to start with with this the most difficult situation right now is the problem of conscription yes as you mentioned before yes uh that we have a we believe that the the tah which is being learned by the yes is what is really contributing to the up up the ability of Israel to live as a nation if we believe that really it's a miracle that we survived with all the enemies around us God done that of our learning religiosity is what supping that and this we have of course difference of opinion with the secular Community that's one thing which we very very strict on very very strict those people who are involved in the learning of the Torah should not be conried as far as people from part of the the community by not learning different question that's yes that's one point mhm as far as money goes MH and getting money from the government M that's an important thing but my it's much much the difference of importance of getting the money and leaving us learn we like to have com to us but that's that's like everybody wants that that's not like death the other one is M life and I mean that's maybe a bit um strange question but if there is someone in your community who wants to serve in in the military what do you say to this person you say to him very unfortunately that there really two over here serving we don't want even if the would be very very we would allow or the qu people a regular person MH if you'll be away in the army that would allow to remain a Rel religious Jew to the degree of our religious to our relig then we have no we have no problem but there is a problem because it's very very hard for the Army to give yeah to accommodate yeah and I mean I have I have visited the the Yesa I mean it's it's a huge it's a huge undertaking um how can you I mean how can you as you said money is is is important but not that important but still I mean you need resources to to run this this huge huge uh undertaking uh do you do fundraising I mean do you get support from from J yes yes go to to America you go to the US specialist no no they help us out no and you have support from all over the world and also students I saw also there were two students I think from from Switzerland also also we have we have 100 students from America England and from Europe and so on and how do you um see the the main questions AP part as we talked about the military and uh then the financial issues otherwise when you look at the community the har Community where do you see the biggest challenges the community faces is it um economic issues or is it religious issues or where do you see challenges but there are challenges of economic issues but the challenges we as Educators have is religious issue okay to rain the degree of relity among the among the people that's our our our Challenge and we try to do that but very ways of talking persuading them would you put it as pers in the people not persu to persuade are persuaded just that we want to have to strengthen what but I think it's indeed as you as you say Rabbi a big big challenge today because there is so much going on around young people there is so much entertainment I I see it with my two boys who are 18 and 10 years old to have them for Focus to learn it's very difficult because so much I mean you have your iPhones and everything how can you focus this is that's what we talk about waste but there is still a lot of uh of young men and boys want to join I heard you have uh you do tests so they have to really uh be very well prepared to be admitted to it's not not EAS but there are very many levels of of schools yes schools of people also we are from the T type one more thing maybe just the Ambassador has a strong interest in international geopolitics Middle Eastern processes uh we are on the back of the Abram Accords and now a new American Administration came to expand them and we rarely hear from from people like you how how this is viewed is you want to take specific so of course we we here living here and working here we talk a lot about the war we see the war we see the conflicts all around at the same time now will be uh the second Trump Administration and under the first one there were this agreements with the United Arab Emirates with bahin with Morocco and so on so do you see a way forward towards peace and also reconciliation and working together in the region with these these countries and and what could the RO I very much hope yes that if the war with Hamas and exactly and with in the North and syri is out of the picture also and if Iran will keep out of the picture then we we can have very nice peaceful also the Merit is also absolutely if I may historically making peace with neighbors uh there were concerns about this leading to assimilation m do you see this as a risk today no no no how come what has changed I don't see it's so much a similation because it's different countries different cultures different cultures en believe that Switzerland that'll be more [Music] dangerous thank you so much thank you so much for time really a pleasure and to me than