Yitzhak Shapira

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Yitzhak Shapira (Hebrew יצחק שפירא, English transcription Yitzhak Shapira, . Born 1966 ) is an Israeli rabbi who has published several books, the nation's attracted attention in Israel.

Life and work

Schapira lives in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Yitzhar in the and is Chairman of the Dorshei there - Yihudcha Yeshiva, a religious school. In 2006, he protested that his colleague Yossi Peli was arrested and questioned on suspicion of incitement after he had entered in an article for all Palestinian males who were older than 13 years, either to expel or kill.

Akiva Eldar, Haaretz columnist, claimed in 2009 that this yeshiva receive significant financial support from the Israeli government. Intellectually, he has been influenced by the Rabbis Abraham Isaac Kook and Yitzchak Ginsburgh.

In 2008, he signed a manifesto, which had the support of two Israelis to content that had beaten two Arab youths on Holocaust Remembrance Day. In January 2010, Shapira was arrested because he was suspected of having set fire to a Palestinian mosque in the village of Yusuf in December 2009.

In 2009 he published the book with Joseph Elitzur wrote the Torah of the King, in which he wrote that it was allowed Jews, non-Jews (including children) to kill when threatened Israel. This will depend, among other things given if one should assume that a child will grow up as an enemy of the Jewish people. The killing is still allows to put enemy heads of governments, or if these " are in the way".

The book was published by the Yeshiva HaRaayon Hayehudi in Jerusalem, an institution which has close Rabbi Meir Kahane's late ideas. The book contains a recommendation from Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg. Ofer Pines, in the Knesset, filed a complaint with the Attorney General against Schapira due to the publication of the book. The process was set in 2012 by the prosecution because there was not sufficient evidence that it had been published with the intent to incite to racism.

In October 2010, he held Israeli soldiers to abuse Palestinians as human shields, as it would in his opinion, violate the true Jewish values ​​, when a soldier risking his life to protect enemy soldiers or civilians.

Works

  • Yitzhak Shapira, Josef Elitzur: The Torah of the King, 2009

Footnotes

  • Rabbi (Israel )
  • Israeli
  • Born in 1966
  • Man
Transcription (linguistics) Jewish Telegraphic Agency Maariv (newspaper)
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