ISRAEL
Artuz Sheva
By Maayana Miskin
First Publish: 8/7/2013
MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud Beytenu) related Wednesday to the verdict finding Rabbi Mordechai (Moti) Elon guilty of performing an indecent act with a minor and of exploiting his position of authority.
Feiglin began by noting that he does not automatically support whatever a court says. In the case of former President Moshe Katzav, he said, while he supported the decision to send Katzav to jail, “the description of his actions as ‘rape’ seemed to me more like giving in to a feminist media attack than a serious verdict.”
However, he said, in Rabbi Elon’s case, “It seems like this is a serious verdict, free of outside considerations. It would be right to give him a very harsh punishment.”
Rabbi Tzfania Drori, the rabbi of the city of Kiryat Shemona and the local Hesder yeshiva, spoke to Arutz Sheva about the verdict in Rabbi Elon’s case.
The ultimate lesson, he said, is “to understand that there are problems here, and to be careful.”
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