Sanity prevails:
The Attorney General's office on Monday announced that it would not
pursue charges against Rabbis Yitzchak Shapira and Yosef Yirmiyahu
Elitzur, who authored the book that was considered controversial by some
over claims that it incites against Arabs. The cases against Rabbis
Yitzchak Ginsburg and Dov Lior, who gave a haskama - a stamp of
approval- to the book will be dropped as well.
Interesting to note are
the reasons for closing the investigation:
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein said that the investigation was being
closed because there is not enough evidence that the book was published
with the intention to incite racism. Weinstein wrote that the Torat Hamelech is written in a general manner and does not call for violence.
Readers of
this blog already knew that. Such a shame that the police harassed leading rabbis for no reason at all.
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