Meshuganah: Haredi singer tapes eyes shut, rabbi outlaws banknote

Published: 7 December 2017

Last updated: 4 March 2024

At his Jerusalem concert, Yonatan Razel tapes his eye to avoid seeing women dancing, while a rabbi bans his followers from looking at banknote showing a poet married to a Christian

Ultra-Orthodox singer tapes eyes shut to avoid seeing women dancing in audience (Times of Israel)
An ultra-Orthodox singer covered his eyes with masking tape in the middle of a concert for women only in order not to see audience members who were dancing in front of the stage.

Yonatan Razel was playing his keyboard and singing at Jerusalem’s International Conference Centre on Sunday night when he put the tape over his eyes during one song. Video of the incident was played on Hadashot television news.

An organiser of the concert, which was part of a festival of ultra-Orthodox music for women, said that Razel covered his eyes for a few minutes.

Rabbi bans followers from looking at banknote with poet married to Christian (Haaretz)
Sephardi rabbi rules against image of Russian-Israeli poet Shaul Tchernichovsky on the banknote introduced in 2014, noting “people like that are called apostates”

Photo: Ultra-Orthodox singer Yonatan Razel covers his eyes with masking tape to avoid seeing women dancing at the foot of the stage on December 3 (Twitter)