Only seven medical circumcisions had been performed since April 2023, according to data presented to the Knesset.
While I wouldn’t go so far as to call circumcision a “terrible mistake,” perhaps there’s a middle ground for the Jewish baby boys yet to be born.
The protester, disrupting Pink’s singing, displayed a message on his phone reading “Circumcision: cruel and harmful”.
Contrary to viewing it as an infringement on a child’s human rights, circumcision can be seen as a human right itself, especially within specific cultural contexts.
Like his literal godfather Menachem Begin, Yariv Levin has the power to defuse a combustible situation that could conceivably lead to internecine violence in Israel.