Police Question Rabbi Volpo over Alleged Bribing
A rabbi suspected of offering financial incentives to soldiers to refuse orders to evacuate West Bank outposts heads the nonprofit association behind the Gush Katif Museum in Jerusalem.
On Gush Katif Day last Wednesday, Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar toured the museum, which memorializes the Gaza settlements, evacuated in 2005. The museum is backed by the World Headquarters to Save the People and the Land of Israel (SOS-Israel), headed by Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpe.
The week before, Wolpe and right-wing activist Baruch Marzel had been questioned by police on suspicion of encouraging soldiers to refuse orders to evacuate illegal outposts by offering them money.
Although the museum’s website lists SOS-Israel and Wolpe as being among “the people behind the museum,” an SOS-Israel spokesman said on Monday that “there is no connection between the museum, the nonprofit association and the rabbi, other than in the past the rabbi initiated it.”
hero-not villian!
He should be celebrated as a hero. Turned out that he was right!
ACTIVE DUTY IDF INFANTRY
I AM AN IDF SOLDIER AND I NEED NO BRIBE TO CONVINCE ME TO EVACUATE JEWISH SETTLMENTS, I JUST NEED TO WATCH THE VIDEO’S OF THE REBBE ON THE SUBJECT OF SHLEIMUS HA’ARETZ.
Dinner Wendsday
He’s making the dinner tomorrow in the Razag. Lets show our support.
kfir
as unethical as the expulsions of settlements were it is equally unethical for him to bribe any soldier.
And yes I am a former combat soldier speaking
Milhouse
#4, What’s unethical about it? And how is giving people awards for doing the right thing considered a “bribe”?
poorly written article
rabbi volpo is very smart (wrote over 10 books) he never gave a soldier a penny for doing or not doing, he gave & gives the parents an award for giving a true jewish education to their children, evident in the behavior of their children.
they had no legal case against rabbi volpo its simple old (KGB) style of intimidation, to take him for questioning before his dinner when he is on a tight schedule, why all of a sudden now? its a few years.
dont worry no leftist will ever be bothered even for real crimes they’ve done.