B’KLYN MAN IN ARIEL ‘SLAY PLOT’

Now they have taken it to a whole new level… Murder… LOL

An ultra-Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn has been busted in Israel on suspicion of plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

Officials said yesterday that Shneor Zalman Hatzkolevitch would be the first Jew tossed out of Israel for security reasons.

Israeli police have been flooded with reports of threats by nationalists against Sharon because of his decision to have Israel withdraw from the Gaza Strip.

Hatzkolevitch shares an apartment in Crown Heights with several brothers.

One of them, Shmuel, insisted his brother doesn’t care about politics.

“He doesn’t even talk about Sharon. He never even held a gun,” he said.

Another brother, Shmya, said, “They [Israeli intelligence] looked at him as suspicious because he speaks Arabic and he goes in and out [of Israel].”

Hatzkolevitch was described by his brothers as an adventurer who made frequent trips to the Middle East to visit gravesites of Jewish “saints.”

The brothers said Hatzkolevitch usually dons traditional Arab garb and carries a Koran as a safety precaution when he travels to potentially dangerous Arab countries.

“He wasn’t going to kill Sharon, not at all,” Shmya said.

A third brother, who declined to give his name, said that when Israeli interrogators questioned his brother about why he was wearing Arab garb, he replied, “What do you expect me to wear, a New York Yankees cap in downtown Baghdad?”