Creation of Israel to examine legal letter rabbis prohibiting the houses for rent Arabs (Haaretz)

Thursday, the General Prosecutor's Office said it would be in the criminal aspects of religious decision to ban the Gentiles houses for rent signed by a number of rabbis.

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein to the Conference of the Association of the bar from Monday to Eilat.

Dozens of the municipal Israel rabbis had signed the letter, which came a few months after Safed Rabbi called pressing Jews to refrain rental or sale of apartments for non-Jews.

In a formal response to a motion by Meretz MK Ilan Ghilon against the letter, an assistant prosecutor, Yehuda Weinstein said Weinstein would order the review of the criminal and disciplinary aspects apparent rabbis letter.

"Attorney General think it seems that the statements attributed to the rabbis are problematic in many aspects… and inappropriate for civil servants," said the statement.

Statement by the Office of the Attorney General was the first official response by petitions for prosecution of the signatories of the letter of the legal establishment of Israel rabbis.

Earlier Thursday, the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial decried the rabbis letter arguing that it "a severe blow to values of our lives as Jews and human beings humans in a democratic State."

"Past experiences have taught us how important and at the same time fragile, these core values are the coexistence and honour," Memorial said in response to the decision.

"We know that the Jewish people, who knew the suffering and ostracism of persecution and the experience and the revocation of fundamental rights, had expressed its position on issues like these with different voices that we have heard today with this decision.

The Rabbi of leader in the sector of non - Hasidic Orthodox Israel, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv also denounced the religious decision. "I have said for some time there the rabbis have their pens removed them," noted the Elyashiv.

"It is interesting that these same Zionist rabbis support symbolically sell their land to the Gentiles in the year shmita", he said referring to the seven year cycle when Israel agricultural fields lie fallow.

Attorney General to determine whether the statements made by the rabbis have been legal (Jerusalem Post)

 
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12/09/2010 18: 58 Prosecutor Yehuda Weinstein, Thursday, said that his Office will check if the behaviour of the rabbis employed by the State which has signed a letter against the lease for non-Jews, was "criminal".

The Weinstein comments came in a letter to Meretz MK Ilan Gilon, called the rabbis to be ousted from their positions.

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Forty-seven employees by State rabbis have signed a declaration public Tuesday, who cites the halachic against renting or selling a house or a plot of land in a non Jews in Israel position.

"In response to questions from many popular answer us hereby is forbidden by the Torah to sell a house or a field in the land of Israel a gentile" letter began to go to cite Maimonides, Aruch Shulhan and other sources. The letter noted the danger of mixed marriages, the potential damage to religious beliefs of Jewish neighbours who could be influenced by non-Jews and damage to the value of real property in the region.

The Weinstein on Declaration of the rabbis letter said "the Attorney General believes that attributed to the rabbis comments are apparently problematic in a number of ways and are emblematic of appropriate behaviour"

"Legal aspect of the incident is more complicated. The Attorney-General commissioned parties into his Office to verify the criminal and disciplinary aspects raised by statements made by the rabbis. »

Earlier Thursday, the commemoration of the Holocaust and Education Center Yad Vashem spoken out against the recent rabbinical letters leave against non-Jews live in areas of Jews in Israel.

Read a statement Thursday "Yad Vashem receives statement of the rabbis for the prohibition to sell and rent nice houses as a severe blow to the fundamental values of our lives as Jews and humans in a democratic State".

"The experience we the importance and at the same time fragile, learned the basic values of the mutual existence and respect for others is", he continued.

"We know that the Jewish people, who experienced suffering and persecution, as well as revocation of fundamental rights, and excommunication had expressed its position on these issues other tones than heard today in the Declaration."

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