ISRAEL/SOUTH AFRICA
Arutz Sheva
By Cynthia Blank
A rabbi wanted in Israel for the alleged indecent assault of women and hiding out in South Africa has issued a death threat against the country’s chief rabbi, Warren Goldstein.
According to the Johannesburg Sunday Times, the threat was made by followers of Rabbi Eliezer Berland in his name and on his website.
It came after South African Police Service officers, acting on behalf of Interpol, raided a hotel in Samrand, where the 78-year-old rabbi has been staying with several of his disciples.
Berland apparently escaped before police stormed rooms belonging to him and followers of his Hassidic sect; he is now in hiding.
The head of Yeshivat Shuvu Bonim in Jerusalem, Berland fled Israel in 2012 after several women as well as a 15-year-old girl laid charges of sexual harassment against him.
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