Outrage after religious newsletter publishes caricature of Hayut stabbing soldier

The court system as well as several lawmakers slam a weekly publication aimed at the religious community for a caricature depicting the former Supreme Court president stabbing an IDF soldier with a flag.

The Shvi’i free weekly newsletter — often distributed in synagogues — prints a cartoon drawn by Or Reichert showing former Supreme Court president Esther Hayut impaling a dead IDF soldier with the flag of the courts system — presumably in response to the court’s ruling this week striking down the “reasonableness” clause. Some have criticized the top court for issuing the contentious ruling during a time of war.

In response to a wave of outrage against the caricature, Reichert writes that he is merely “criticizing the authorities.”

The courts system issues a statement that the caricature is “suspected incitement to violence” and calls for the newsletter to remove it.

National Unity MK Matan Kahana writes on X that the cartoon is “one of the lowest things I’ve seen lately.”