One of Rabbi Efraim Tessler’s victims describes how it all happened: The private lessons, touching, accusations, dependence – and the agreement involving the rabbi’s son, deputy minister Yaakov Tessler, to buy his silence

Aryeh has trouble counting the number of times he’s been sexually assaulted. It happened so many times and with such frequency that there is no point trying, he said. For a year and a half it was routine, part of normal weekday happenings at the Damesek Eliezer Vizhnitz Yeshiva in Jerusalem. The serial attacker was the head of the yeshiva, Rabbi Efraim Tessler.

“He would walk around the study hall in the morning and tell me ‘come up’ or ask me to wake him up in the afternoon because he slept in a bed in the office,” Aryeh (a pseudonym to maintain his anonymity) told Haaretz. “He would undress, I would cause him to ejaculate and immediately…