updated Fri. August 2, 2024
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Haaretz
June 19, 2017
Israel Channel 2 television news reported on Sunday that Israels Shin Bet security service has recently asked a number of rabbinic leaders associated with the extreme right, including Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg, head of the Od Yosef Hai Yeshiva in Yitzhar, to help battle violence by radical youths in the WestÃâà...
Mondoweiss
June 5, 2017
The Law of Return considers anyone who has a Jewish grandparent as a Jew for emigration purposes – but the rabbis do not. The numbers are ... their conversion, it promises. But the person who will decide whether you are a good enough Jew to marry in Israel will, in the end, be an ultra-Orthodox rabbi.
Aljazeera.com
December 25, 2016
Despite systematic impunity granted by Israel's military and police to Israelis who execute attacks on Palestinians and their property, Israeli human rights ... in response to actions by the Israeli government perceived to be against settler interests - were followers of Yitzhar's Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg. GinsburgÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 25, 2016
Despite systematic impunity granted by Israel's military and police to Israelis who execute attacks on Palestinians and their property, Israeli human rights ... in response to actions by the Israeli government perceived to be against settler interests - were followers of Yitzhar's Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg. GinsburgÃâà...
Haaretz
November 28, 2015
In 2003, he published a book Tzav HaShaah – Tipul Shoresh (Order of the Hour – Root Treatment) in which he wrote that Arabs have no right to live in Israel, and blamed the Israeli left for the murder of Jews. He was indicted for incitement as a result, but the charges were withdrawn as part of an agreementÃâà...
New York Times
September 4, 2015
He is a grandson of Meir Kahane, a radical American rabbi who in 1971 immigrated to Israel, established the Kach party and served as its lone Knesset ... These days, rabbis like the St. Louis-born Yitzhak Ginsburg, who heads a yeshiva in the radical settlement of Yizhar, are inculcating the next generation.
Ha'aretz
July 29, 2010
The police's Unit of International Crime Investigations on Thursday detained rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg, the president of the Od Yosef Chai yeshiva in the ... He has faced prosecution in the past for incitement to racism after having published a book insisting that there is no place for Arabs in the state of Israel.
