{"id":596645,"date":"2026-08-26T14:44:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/596645\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:44:20","slug":"brazen-mockery-justice-amits-two-phones-remark-sparks-haredi-uproar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/596645\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Brazen mockery\u2019: Justice Amit\u2019s \u2018two phones\u2019 remark sparks haredi uproar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-5d397945=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">A remark by Israeli Supreme Court President Justice Isaac Amit during a hearing on Wednesday has sparked much anger among the haredi public.<\/p>\n<p data-v-5d397945=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">Justice Amit remarked on haredim who own &#8220;kosher phones,&#8221; cellular phones that have either content filters or no internet access at all. &#8220;Many times, those who have a kosher phone in one pocket also have a [regular] phone to stay connected in the other pocket,&#8221; he said<\/p>\n<p data-v-5d397945=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">The top judge claimed that &#8220;they say that a very significant percentage of the haredi population owns two phones. One kosher phone to show off, and one real phone, a smarter phone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-5d397945=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">The remarks drew a fierce response from the haredi Shas party, which stated: &#8220;The brazen mockery by Supreme Court President Justice Amit toward kosher phone owners expresses arrogance and detachment from a huge public that chooses to raise children in a protected and pure environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-5d397945=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">&#8220;Shas is proud to have led the kosher phone legislation and will continue to protect the right of every community to live according to its faith,&#8221; the party added.<\/p>\n<p>\u05d4\u05d4\u05ea\u05d1\u05d8\u05d0\u05d5\u05ea \u05e9\u05dc \u05d4\u05e9\u05d5\u05e4\u05d8 \u05d9\u05e6\u05d7\u05e7 \u05e2\u05de\u05d9\u05ea\u05d3\u05d5\u05d1\u05e8\u05d5\u05ea \u05d4\u05e8\u05e9\u05d5\u05ea \u05d4\u05e9\u05d5\u05e4\u05d8\u05ea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A remark by Israeli Supreme Court President Justice Isaac Amit during a hearing on Wednesday has sparked much&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2094,11071,85,46,43,62534,4320,94325],"class_list":["post-596645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-cellphones","tag-haredim","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-shas","tag-supreme-court","tag-yitzhak-amit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}