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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 374

Yitzchak Ginsburgh

Union of Right-Wing Parties chairman Rafi Peretz (R) and National Union faction chair Bezalel Smotrich at the party's 2019 election campaign launch, March 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 6, 2019, 7:58 pm
PA slams Israeli ministers for plans to attend event honoring radical rabbi
PA Foreign Ministry accuses Rafi Peretz and Bezalel Smotrich, slated to appear at award ceremony for Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, of backing terror
By Adam Rasgon
Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh. (Kobi Gideon/ FLASH90)
August 4, 2019, 8:37 pm
Ministers to honor rabbi who praised Hebron massacre perpetrator
Peretz says he wasn’t involved in choosing Yitzchak Ginsburgh, whom Smotrich hails as a ‘genius and a tremendous sage’
By Jacob Magid
A Palestinian woman walks next to posters showing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with a text reading "eliminate the sponsers of murder" at the Hawara checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus on December 11, 2018. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
December 11, 2018, 8:36 pm
Far-right group plasters West Bank with posters urging Abbas’s assassination
Palestinian officials blame Israel for incitement; police weigh removing posters showing PA leader’s face in crosshairs; campaign targets PA payments to terrorists
By Jacob Magid
Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh. (Kobi Gideon/ FLASH90)
January 24, 2018, 12:34 pm
Far-right rabbi recorded urging ‘strong retaliatory act’ after terror attack
Two days after murder of Raziel Shevach in West Bank, Yitzchak Ginsburgh told followers government is ‘cheapening Jewish blood’
By Michael Bachner
Shabtay Bendet then (left) and now
January 12, 2018, 9:31 am
A former settler is bent on dismantling outposts he once toiled to establish
Ex-radical Lubavitcher Shabtay Bendet has left old ideologies behind, but the new Peace Now staffer is still grappling with the life he created on the other side of the fence
By Jacob Magid
Noa
January 31, 2016, 1:13 pm
Noa
Creative dissonance
Beware separating artists from their art, when honoring musical accomplishment also rewards extreme racism
Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh. (Kobi Gideon/ FLASH90)
January 8, 2016, 3:13 am
Radical Israeli rabbis come under fire amid settler violence
Recent attacks against Arabs have brought the teachings of extremists into the spotlight
By Tia Goldenberg
Illustrative: Rabbi Dov Lior speaks at a rally outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem in July 2011 (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 27, 2015, 12:27 pm
Sunday the rabbi was brought in for questioning
A looming crackdown on the ‘extremist’ rabbinical world engenders a talmudic discussion of how much of a shift it represents and whether it’s even the right move to make
By Joshua Davidovich
Rabbi Daniel Stavsky speaks to soldiers from the Golani Brigade during a memorial event for the sons of Israeli educator Miriam Peretz, in Gush Etzion in the West Bank on July 8, 2013. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)
December 27, 2015, 11:59 am
Israel to clamp down on rabbis ‘inciting’ Jewish terrorism
Law enforcement to lower bar for investigating far-right spiritual leaders, in effort to curb anti-Arab violence
By ToI Staff
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL/FLASH90)
December 26, 2015, 8:12 pm
Ya’alon: Jewish terrorists to be indicted soon for Duma attack
Defense minister says Israel taking ‘draconian steps’ to prevent repeat of July firebombing that killed Palestinian parents and baby
By ToI Staff
Matisyahu performing at the Rototom Festival in Benicassim, Spain, August 22, 2015. (YouTube/via JTA)
August 30, 2015, 1:50 pm
West Bank shooting attack survivor thankful for ‘miracle’
‘Largest Mediterranean gas field’ found off Egypt coast; vote tally for Iran nuclear deal rises to 31 in Senate
By Elie Leshem
The entrance to the settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank. (Flash90/File)
August 7, 2015, 3:07 pm
At Yitzhar, heartland of settler extremism, hostility to State of Israel is no secret
Spokesman condemns firebombing murder of Palestinian baby, won’t apologize for whichever ‘lunatic’ carried it out
By Simona Weinglass
Illustrative photo of a masked Jewish extremist swinging a slingshot outside the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar in 2013. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)
June 2, 2015, 8:44 pm
IDF lifts seizure of radical West Bank yeshiva
Border Police had taken control of Od Yosef Chai seminary since last year after its students’ alleged involvement in ‘price tag’ attacks
By Tamar Pileggi
Illustrative photo of a masked Jewish extremist swinging a slingshot outside the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar in 2013. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)
May 7, 2014, 8:28 am
Radical settlers discuss legitimacy of killing soldiers
On Yitzhar email list, residents exchange views on whether Jewish law permits use of lethal force in confronting IDF troops
By Yifa Yaakov and JTA
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