Police open probe into ex-Ashkenazi chief rabbi on suspicion he molested 16-year-old

By Charlie Summers

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18 February 2025, 5:14 pm

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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.