Shmuel Eliyahu

Jewish brotherhood burning of bread ritual carried out in public (Yossi Gurvitz)

Nobody mentions the Jewish Brotherhood

Israelis bemoan the alleged rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, ignoring their own local variety While Israelis pay plenty of attention to the fear of the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, they steadfastly ignore the rise of the Jewish brotherhood in their own country. The motto of the MB is “Islam is…

By Yossi Gurvitz February 5, 2011

Burning of bread on the eve of Passover (Yossi Gurvitz)

Jewish Orthodox publication openly calls for death camps

Orthodox rabbis long for the day when they’ll wipe out Amalekites, and two more notes Rabbis for Death Camps: One of the popular genres of media generally unfamiliar to the Israeli secular public is that of synagogue pamphlets. There are quite a few of them, and they are distributed on Fridays to thousands of synagogue.…

By Yossi Gurvitz January 15, 2011

+972 Magazine’s People of the Year 2010

The shortlist of 972’s people of the year 2010, chosen by the site’s bloggers Anat Kamm, former IDF soldier accused of leaking top secret documents to Haaretz reporter Uri Blau One day this March, my girlfriend went for a routine job interview. When she returned she had a story to tell: “You’ll never believe how…

By +972 Magazine December 30, 2010

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Ultra-Orthodox protesting the opening of a parking lot in Jerusalem (photo: Oren Ziv/activestills.org)

On the rise of Jewish fundamentalism in Israel

By Shalom Boguslavsky Over the past decade or so, the religious Zionists and the ultra-Orthodox have joined forces to push for an Arab-free greater land of Israel. The racist ideas of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, once considered marginal, have gained new power as they are expressed by important ultra-Orthodox rabbis with wide authority in…

By +972 Magazine December 11, 2010

50 Israeli Rabbis issue ruling forbidding renting of homes to Arabs

Rabbis signing the public letter are state employees; so far, not one of them was prosecuted or fired The Israeli media is reporting this morning that some 50 rabbis have signed a declaration calling for Jews not to let Arabs hire apartments in their communities. The Rabbis expressed support for Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu of Safed,…

By Noam Sheizaf December 6, 2010

In Safed, a town backs its racist Rabbi

“Knock on any door in this street and ask who would be willing to rent an apartment to Arabs and I’ll bet you no one will,” says an Arab student from Safed By Daniel OZ In the public park adjacent to the Zefat (Safed) Academic College, all the stone seats and wooden benches are adorned…

By +972 Magazine November 24, 2010