Rivlin: 'Lack of tolerance will lead to disaster'

President Reuven Rivlin joins a chorus of condemnation from across the political spectrum against the attack on the Jerusalem pride parade earlier this evening.

“We came together today for a festive event, but the joy was shattered when a terrible hate crime occurred here in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel,” he says at a celebration marking 30 years of the Israeli Opera.

“People celebrating their freedom and expressing their identity were viciously stabbed. We must not be deluded, a lack of tolerance will lead us to disaster. We cannot allow such crimes, and we must condemn those who commit and support them. I wish the injured a full and speedy recovery.”