Israel Closes Down Settler Yeshiva Due To Violent Attacks Against Palestinans, Israel Security Forces

Israel's Education Ministry decided Tuesday to follow the recommendations of the Israel's secrect service the Shin Bet and close down the yeshiva in the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, following its students' involvement in violent acts against Palestinians and Israeli security forces.

Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, right, Rabbi Yosef Elitzur, center, and Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburg, left, roshei yeshiva in Yitzhar

Israel closes down Yitzhar yeshiva due to violent acts against Palestinians
Education Ministry follows Shin Bet recommendation to close down West Bank yeshiva after its students engage in violent acts against Palestinians, Israeli security forces.
By Chaim Levinson • Ha’aretz   

Israel's Education Ministry decided Tuesday to follow the recommendations of the Shin Bet and close down the Dorshei Yehudcha yeshiva in the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, following its students' involvement in violent acts against Palestinians and Israeli security forces.

Shimshon Shoshani, the former director-general of the Education Ministry, decided last week before leaving his post to close down the yeshiva indefinitely.

Dorshei Yehudcha yeshiva high school is part of the institutions of Od Hai Yosef [sic – should be Od Yosef Hai], headed by Rabbi Yitzhak Ginzburg. Two heads of the yeshiva, Rabbis Yosef Elitzur and Yitzhak Shapira wrote the controversial book "The King's Torah" which justifies the killing of non-Jews.

Last month, Haaretz revealed that the Shin Bet recommended that the Education Ministry close down the yeshiva since "it had collected extensive information on yeshiva students which are involved in illegal and violent activities against Palestinians and the security forces." It was also known that the yeshiva rabbis and its heads were aware of some of the activities taking place and allowed the students to participate.

Ynet's report:

Government shuts down Yitzhar yeshiva
Students' involvement in violent activity against Palestinians, security forces leads Education Ministry to close Dorshei Yehudcha Yeshiva high school, withhold funds from Od Yosef Chai yeshiva
Yair Altman • Ynet

The Education Ministry has decided to close down the Dorshei Yehudcha Yeshiva high school and withhold funds from the Od Yosef Chai yeshiva over the involvement of their students in violent activity against Palestinians and security forces. The two yeshivas are based in Yitzhar and headed by Rabbi Yitzchak Ginzburg.

Students of the establishments were arrested in connection to "price tag" attacks over the past few years. Two students, including one teenager, were arrested last August. November 2010 saw two students aged 18 and 21 caught in possession of a knife and a mask. In January 2010, Od Yosef Chai yeshiva head Rabbi Yizthak Shapira was arrested together with some of his students on suspicion of involvement in the Yasouf mosque arson.

Education Ministry Director-General Dr. Shimshon Shoshani harshly criticized the establishments in a letter to their legal advisor, Attorney Itzhak Bam. "The students are involved in many violent acts against Palestinian residents and security forces, including during yeshiva study hours. Prominent rabbis in the yeshiva support and/or are involved in this violent activity and go as far as to incite the students to this sort of activity."

Dr. Shoshani received information on the students' involvement from the defense establishment. In his letter, he said the Education Ministry will not provide the Od Yosef Chai yeshiva with funds which were withheld in recent months. "Under these extreme circumstances which indicate extensive involvement by students and rabbis in violent acts, it's clear a warning would not have changed things."

Knesset Member Michael Ben-Ari (National Union) said that the shut down of the yeshiva constitutes "capitulation to leftist terror." He added it will lead to desperation.

Shomron Regional Council head Gershon Mesika said: "This is an unprecedented step only Soviet Russia would have considered. It is unthinkable that Israeli state officials close down an official institution based on secret materials. Islamic movements' religious institutions which advocate terror or universities where the existence of Israel is being disputed were never shut down."

Members of the yeshiva itself pointed a finger at Education Minister Sa'ar. "The Education Ministry serves as the Shin Bet's rubber stamp," Attorney Bam said. "The Shin Bet failed to find the real 'price tag' perpetrators and therefore imposes collective punishment on an entire yeshiva without allowing it to face its charges."

Ginsburg and Shapira are Chabad followers.

Comments

[The Real Joe]

Welcome back USSR just its moved a bit south to the Modern state of Israel

[OMG]

Hava nagila, hava nagila Hava nagila venis'mecha, Hava neranena, hava neranena
Hava neranena venis'mecha

[seymour]

Posted by: The Real Joe | November 01, 2011 at 05:17 PM

did they close any yeshiva or a a yeshiva that promotes and does terrorist acts

[Shlomo]

Jewish supremacists in action...
Gilad Atzmon is a genius. He described this exact type of extremist and that there is nothing to be done to change them
Perfect justification for Gilad'd book

[Friar Yid]

First reaction: Thank God, and it's about time.

Second reaction: It feels like there should be better ways to deal with these guys than shutting down their school.

Third reaction: I wonder if closing the yeshiva will really stop the craziness coming out of there. If the students still live in the area, are committed to violence and supremacy, and continue to have contact with extremist teachers and beliefs, does it really matter if the yeshiva is open or closed? Also, I wonder if this act will lead to its own "price tag" response.

I'm not sure whether I'm more irritated with the wackos or the government, but this whole business leaves me rather sad.

[Jeff]

Shmarya, is that the Yitxchak Ginsburg who wrote What You Need to Know About Kabbalah? Isn't he a Chabad rabbi? I believe he used to live in Kfar Chabad.

[Litvish]

Well, when are these same police going to stop the brazen Sikarikim terror in Meah Shearim?

When will they make it safe for secular Israelis to live as they wish, safe from the theocratic hatred of the frumiks and their mullahs?

Soon these numbskulls will legally take over Israel as they fuck their way into power.

Then, imbeciles, who will fight for you, feed you, pay for your services?

Not us.

Hopefully, the Arabs will slaughter you all like the sheep that you are.

Then we shall return home to an Israel that, finally, will be 100% free of religion, Islamic, Christian or Frumism.

I look forward to a totally secular Israel where there is absolutely no room or use for superstition.

[Robert Wisler]

Litvish,
Your paradise is Pakistan. Your sham religion is the same filth as taught in the Madrassas. Why don't you do us a favor and go there where you can satisfy your blood lusts?

[Adam Neira]

I trust Shin Bet knows what it is doing.

[adam zur]

in answer to jeff the answer is yes.
he used to be more on the side of breslov (about twenty years back). But at some point he switched camps

[ultra haredi lite]

Don't close it, just put a fence around it with a one way door.

[Jeff]

in answer to jeff the answer is yes.
he used to be more on the side of breslov (about twenty years back). But at some point he switched camps

I was skimming through his book in the library just the other day. He made a derogatory remark about Eastern religions. He's skeptical of the claim sometimes made by the frum that the "gifts" Abraham gave to his sons (those other than Isaac) consisted of the esoteric knowledge forming the basis of those religions, but went on to say that even if they were, those traditions have become tainted with impurities. Typical Haredi triumphalism and condescension.

Yeah, he seems like a piece of work.

[seymour]

Posted by: Jeff | November 02, 2011 at 07:17 AM

and the haredi religion is pure, untouched by time I guess

[Jeff]

and the haredi religion is pure, untouched by time I guess

Apparently.

[Yosef ben Matitya]

barukh hashem, the government finally got it's senses and closed the shameful 'madrassa'. hopefully, it's 'rabbis' will eventually find themselves locked!

[flat earth]

These have to be the creepiest looking dudes ever.

[Adam Neira]

To Flat Earth,

Don't judge a book by its cover. Who knows how handsome Moses was.

[Another Halocene Human]

Is it some sort of offense against g** to comb your beard? Or just against good taste?