by Gil Ronen
The religious Zionist leadership expressed rage Monday over what it views as the government-ordered abduction of Rav Dov Lior, Rabbi of Kiryat Arba. Police ordered Rav Lior’s car to pull over and arrested him in the morning while he was drivingon the Gush Etzion tunnel road.
He was questioned at the National Unit for Serious and International Crimes and freed in the afternoon.
Religions Minister Rav Yaakov Mergi (Shas) protested to the Minister of Public Security over the arrest of the Rabbi, who “was abducted on his way to Jerusalem like the lowest criminal.”
MK Zevulun Orlev (Jewish Home) joined the condemnation voiced by National Union MKs Yaakov Katz, Uri Ariel and Michael Ben-Ari. He hinted that Rabbi Lior was singled out for disrespectful treatment because of the tension between the government and the religious Zionist camp. Police behaved “as if they were in the Wild West,” he said, and would not have acted in the same way in arresting a rabbi from Shas or UTJ. Read the rest on: Arutz7
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