ISRAEL
Aruz Sheva
By Adam Ross
First Publish: 9/13/2013
Rabbi Yona Metzger, former Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel, has responded for the first time to the investigations of bribery, fraud and breach of trust that led him to step down early from his public office.
“Sadly the media has distorted my character and this has been very hurtful for me.” Metzger said in an interview to Israel’s Channel 10. He added, “Our media looks for blood and only looks for the negative.”
The former chief rabbi claimed that if the famed Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook, the first to hold the title of Chief Rabbi of Israel, was in the post today, he would not have been as adored as he was, due to the treatment he would have received from media.
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