“I feel nothing. There are no sexual feelings anymore. For 20 years already.…Sex? No, no, no. I had surgery on my prostate. All lust is gone. I never touched those women."
Above: Rabbi Eliezer Berland in handcuffs in Zimbabwe
Rabbi Eliezer Berland: I Couldn’t Have Sexually Assaulted Those Women And The Girl – I Have No Sex Drive!
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Breslov hasidic leader Rabbi Eliezer Berland told a Dutch newspaper this week that he has no sex drive and therefore could not be guilty of sexually assaulting several female followers, including at least one minor, in Israel several years ago.
The 77-year-old head of Breslov’s Shuvu Banim sect fled Israel more than two years ago and bounced from country to country to country since. After bouncing around Europe and North America, Berland was expelled from Morocco, arrested and deported from Zimbabwe and narrowly escaped arrest – twice – in South Africa before being arrested in Amsterdam just before Rosh Hashana. He is currently fighting extradition to Israel.
“I feel nothing. There are no sexual feelings anymore. For 20 years already.…Sex? No, no, no. I had surgery on my prostate. All lust is gone. I never touched those women,” Berland claimed.
Berland’s Dutch lawyer, Louis de Leon, claimed Berland is too ill with cardiac problems to stand trial or be extradited to Israel.
A court in Haarlem, the Netherlands is reopening Berland’s extradition case today.
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