Cop probed for alleged abuse of Jewish terrorist’s wife

The Police Investigations Unit recommended an investigator face a disciplinary inquiry over claims that he had sexually harassed the wife of Jack Tytell, a Jewish man convicted of murdering two Palestinians.

Rivka Tytell lodged a complaint after being called in for questioning as police investigated whether her husband had been involved in a 2009 attack on a gay and lesbian center in Tel Aviv that killed two teenagers and wounded over dozens more.

According to Tytell, who is a religious woman, one of the investigators made crude suggestions about her young son’s sexual orientation as well as other base comments directed at her. At one point during the questioning, which took place in 2012, the investigator allegedly leaned in close to her ear and asked her if she liked what he was doing.

“Do you enjoy my breath? You haven’t felt a man’s breath for a while,” the officer said, according to Tytell.

She has also sued the police for NIS 120,000 ($34,000) in damages.

Tytell’s attorney, far-right activist Itamar Ben Gvir, said he hoped that Jack Tytell’s crimes had not influenced the outcome of the investigation.

“I hope that the fact that the victim’s name is Rivka Tytell didn’t bring a decision for a disciplinary hearing rather than a criminal [proceeding],” Ben Gvir said, quoted by the Walla news site. “Nonetheless, we will lodge a private complaint as well as a civil lawsuit against the policeman.”

The US-born Jack Tytell, often referred to as “the Jewish terrorist,” was given two life sentences and an additional 30 years in May 2013 for murdering two Palestinians and wounding two Israelis.

Tytell, who became known as the “Jewish Terrorist,” was arrested in 2009, and admitted to carrying out at least seven terror attacks that killed two Palestinians and injured three over the course of 12 years. Besides targeting Palestinians, the 40-year-old Florida native attacked Jews he suspected of missionary activity and also spread inciting literature against the gay community.

Earlier this year, police arrested the perpetrators of the shooting at the gay center in Tel Aviv, clearing Tytell as a suspect.