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Tuesday, February 18, 2025
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Police open probe into ex-Ashkenazi chief rabbi on suspicion he molested 16-year-old
Former chief rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger arrives to the Maasiyahu Prison in Ramla, to serve a 3.5 year sentence on May 1, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
After receiving a police complaint, officers opened an investigation earlier today into former Ashkenazi chief rabbi Yona Metzger on suspicion he molested a 16-year-old boy.
Metzger was called in for questioning and then released on bail a few hours later, a police spokesman says.
In 2017, Metzger was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for corruption offenses, but served only 22 months after a parole board accepted his appeal for early release. He was freed in March 2019.
