A prominent national religious rabbi has condemned the deadly October stoning of a Palestinian vehicle in the northern West Bank.
Har Etzion yeshiva co-head Rabbi Yaakov Meidan addressed the murder of Aisha Rabi during a lesson earlier today at the religious seminary.
Meidan told his students he was approached by a local TV channel to be interviewed on whether he thought it was permissible for far-right activists to drive on the Sabbath in order to coach the suspects in Rabi’s murder how to withstand Shin Bet interrogations. A number of prominent national religious rabbis signed off on the move, saying the security agency’s tactics could be life-threatening.
“Everyone is talking about whether what the Shin Bet did is okay or not. I do not hear any such shouts regarding the Arab woman, a mother of (eight) children, who was killed by a stone thrown, also on the Sabbath,” Meidan tells his students, according to the Kipa news site.
“What happened to this woman, at the hands of our camp, should have caused a greater outcry. You cannot take the mother of (eight) children and smash her skull,” he declares.
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