One of the protest sites was opposite the home of Shas leader Aryeh Deri on the outskirts of the Bayit Vegan neighborhood, but dozens of yeshivah bochurim wouldn’t stand silent in the face of such an affront.
While the demonstrators were blowing their bazookas and bicycle horns and beating their tom-toms, the bochurim broke out in song and dance. And then, a fellow named Yishai Green, a prominent Brothers in Arms activist and a well-known high-tech entrepreneur and cyber whiz who’d made millions on some strategic exits of companies he’d created, drew closer to the circle of dancers.
Signaling to a team of photographers behind him, he then took out a wad of bills from his pocket and, in a clearly anti-Semitic trope, hurled the money into the courtyard below where the chareidim were dancing — half expecting them to pick up the cash and run, because isn’t money more important than ideals?
Both he and the camera crew with him were quite surprised when not one bochur left the circle to grab some cash, not one of them deigning to touch those tainted bills of hate.
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