14.12.2011 18.Kislev. 5772
Politik:
West Bank rabbis: Allow live fire at stone throwers
In letter to Netanyahu, Barak, Rabbi Dov Lior, 2 others says Jewish law permits one to protect oneself by all means available.
Three senior religious-Zionist rabbis sent a letter on Tuesday to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, requesting that the IDF change its rules of engagement toward stone throwers participating in riots in the West Bank.
Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Arba and Hebron Dov Lior; Chief Rabbi of the Samaria region Rabbi Elyakim Levanin; and Rabbi Eliezer Nahum Rabinovitch, head of the Birkat Moshe yeshiva in Ma’aleh Adumim stated in their letter that according to Jewish law, and all law, it is permitted to protect oneself by all means available….