Israeli rabbi says politicians cooperating with Arab parties can be killed

Israeli rabbi says politicians cooperating with Arab parties can be killed A prominent rabbi in Israel has invoked a Jewish religious doctrine permitting the use of lethal force against politicians who cooperate with Arab parties, Haaretz reported. Rabbi Gedalya Axelrod, a former head of the Haifa Rabbinical Court, said in a handwritten ruling that Jewish party leaders who support a government formed with the backing of Arab parties are subject to din rodef, or the “law of the pursuer”. Axelrod wrote that collabora