For most, the pandemic has put a temporary halt to the jet-setting lifestyle. But Israeli travel restrictions caused by the Covid outbreak led to Golders Green mohel Rabbi Yossi Simon racking up air miles as he officiated at four overseas brit milot in as many days.
He started in Cyprus where the community would normally rely on mohelim from Israel — an hour’s flight away. But with the Jewish state in lockdown, Rabbi Simon has been in demand.
The Chabad minister first performed a brit for a family in Larnaca, going on to Limassol to conduct another before sunset.
Thinking his work was done, he headed back to his hotel in advance of a return flight the following day. But he was then contacted by a rabbi in North Cyprus. The parents of a six-month-old had been unable to arrange a brit and could Rabbi Simon perform it?
