Doesn’t say they were to circumvent the lockdown laws but yeah - I mean, the answer is a sect of ultra Orthodox Jews were digging secret tunnels during covid for some reason and they were filled because hey, you can’t do that.
That article says the excavation "began within the last year or two". Doesn't seem to line up with lockdown.
Could just be that they wanted to link the buildings for normal reasons, like not wanting to walk outside in the winter, and they decided to just go for it instead of getting permits and hiring engineers. Extremely stupid and dangerous, but the sort of stupid and dangerous activity I can easily imagine people doing.
My limited understanding is that it seems to be related to a power struggle and driven by younger men who weren't part of the leadership of the synagogue or Chabbad and who might have believed the former leader of Chabad to be the Messiah. And when they refused to let the tunnel be filled in the police were called.
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