ISRAEL
Arutz Sheva
Former rabbi of Kiryat Bialik cleared of charges after representative for alleged harassment victims
By Maayana Miskin
First Publish: 12/15/2013
Rabbi Aminadav Krispin, 80, the former rabbi of the city of Kiryat Bialik, has been cleared of charges in a sexual harassment case.
Judge Ziyad Falah of the Haifa Magistrate’s Court moved to dismiss the charges following the revelation that the harassment case had been turned into a campaign of extortion aimed at Rabbi Krispin and his family.
The three women who complained against Rabbi Krispin were represented by Meir Otmazgin. Otmazgin made contact with the accused rabbi’s family and made various demands in a series of conversations, some of which were caught on tape.
Otmazgin was heard demanding hundreds of thousands of shekels from the rabbi’s family, and promising that if they gave him the money, the sexual harassment charges would be dropped. He warned that for every day that they did not give him the money, he would demand an additional 10%.
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