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Sexual offenses, escape from the land, and Hasidic violence: The scandals of Rabbi Berland - Walla! news

2020-02-09T18:25:12.140Z


The latest case involving suspected criminal offenses, fraudulent receipt and tax offenses is not the first entanglement of the leader of the "return boys" community and the hard core of his followers - who were themselves involved ...


Sexual offenses, escape from the land, and Hasidic violence: The scandals of Rabbi Berland

The latest case involving suspected criminal offenses, fraudulent receipt and tax offenses is not the first entanglement of the Shubu boys community leader and the hard core of his followers - who themselves were involved in a series of violent incidents, arrests and dangerous chases on the country's roads. All the affairs of Berland

Sexual offenses, escape from the land, and Hasidic violence: The scandals of Rabbi Berland

Photo: Extreme Haredi protests

The arrest of Rabbi Eliezer Berland, leader of the Braslav Hasidim Hasu community in Jerusalem, along with six other members of the community, including his wife, on suspicion of criminal mischief, receiving fraud and tax offenses - was unexpected and did not surprise his followers. "We knew an investigation was underway," they said this morning. "We have sent messages to the police if the rabbi needs to be investigated, which will fit in neatly with us. Meanwhile, the police chiefs have chosen to conduct a grandiose production in the eyes of the media.

Recently, about 200 testimonies from terminally ill patients and their families have come to the police complaining that Berland, through his associates and associates, made them false promises to be cured, recommended that they stop chemotherapy, gave them candy instead of a drug, in exchange for large sums of money he called "redemption" soul".

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This is not the first embarrassment of Berland and his community. In November 2016, Berland was convicted of sex offenses in the wives of his community and in the context of a plea deal, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison, with only one year in prison, and was released following his health condition. Berland was arrested after he was extradited to Israel, after fleeing the country following his investigation and moving to many countries in the world, including the Netherlands, Switzerland, South Africa, USA, etc. Rabbi Berland's name made headlines during his escape around the world: from Zimbabwe he was expelled, from Holland he fled and in other countries He spent short periods of fear of being caught, and after three years he was arrested in South Africa and then extradited to Israel.

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Since his release from prison, Berland and his men have tried to gain legitimacy within the ultra-Orthodox public. In the local elections held in November 2018, his associates secured their support for Mayor Moshe Leon, and in the Knesset elections promised their support for Torah Judaism. As part of this, they met with Berland, ultra-Orthodox politicians, including Health Minister Jacob Litzman and Deputy Minister Meir Perush. The two were heavily criticized for these visits.

Violent confrontations and dangerous chases

Berland has held prayers and held mass lessons with his followers and many attend private events such as alliances and canopies across the country. His followers flocked to him everywhere but along the way they encountered a group of opponents who chased their spiritual leader, held protests and exerted pressure on mayors and public figures to cancel his classes across the country, and often the parties were dragged into violent clashes between them.

Not the first scandal. Money found in raid tonight (Photo: Israel Police spokeswoman)

Six suspects from the "Return Boys" community were arrested on suspicion of felony, fraudulent receipt and tax offenses. February 9, 2020 (Photo: Israel Police spokeswoman, Israel Police spokeswoman)

Berland's attempt to return to the ultra-Orthodox mainstream has largely failed. In recent years, Berland's followers have been involved in quite a few incidents that have come to the top of the agenda, including violent and difficult confrontations with Arabs on the way back from the Western Wall on Simchat Torah holiday, dangerous chases on Israeli roads, and arrests and civil lawsuits in the courts. Some parishioners have left her since the affair, but Berland still has a hard core of followers who believe it is "big in Israel."

In 2010, the "Return Boys" community was at the center of another storm after Berland blamed his son and grandson, Nahman and Nathan, for "imprisoning" him for more than a decade, and did not allow his followers access to him, through many security guards who allegedly used him Hard. Berland, assisted by two of his associates, fled to a city in the north of the country and stayed there for a long time until the winds calmed down.

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