Shas says it’s confident Litzman will be found innocent

The Shas party issues a statement defending the leader of the Knesset’s other ultra-Orthodox party after police recommend that he be indicted for assisting a serial pedophile.

“The Shas movement affirms its support of Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, a faithful public envoy who has dealt with requests from the public for decades and his left his door open to all,” says the party. “We are sure that his innocence will be proven and that justice will soon be revealed.”

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