Tzedek-Tzedek

There were two horrific and tragic cases of child-murders this past Thursday night. 7 year old   Leon Kalantarov z"l of the town of Bnei Ayish, was found dead in the nearby apartment of Naor and Adir Sodmi, 24 year old twins, both accused in the past of pedophilia. Meantime, A 23-year-old Jerusalem resident, Nachman Anshin, has been arrested for murdering his own baby daughter, Fruma, Thursday night following an argument with his wife. It is reported that members of their community were aware that Anshin was a risk, and this was being "managed" within his own community. Today, both President Peres and Prime Minister Netanyahu have called for a more effective system for protecting Israel ’s children. Minister of Welfare, Yitzhak Herzog (who I have met with twice in the past few months) has told reporters that there are a staggering 35,000 cases of child abuse reported to the Ministry each year. In both cases, the lawyers and families of the accused are claimin...

Do you recall Yiftah Mor-Yosef, the 17 year old boy in Ramle who was shot in the crossfire between gangsters, while sitting on a park bench? Or Leorard Karp, the man murdered by a bunch of kids while relaxing with his family on the Tel Aviv beach? Or Nir Katz, from Givatayim, and Liz Trubeshi, 17, from Holon who were murdered in a gun attack on their gay counseling center in Tel Aviv? Or Beatrice and Denise Rodov, the mother and daughter found cut into pieces, limb by limb, and dumped in the Alexander River (one) and in a garbage can in Ramat Gan (the other)? Or Tzipora Nahamu the Jerusalem landlady, who was stabbed to death by her tenant? One gets the feeling that common murder of Israelis by Israelis has taken over this summer where Palestinian terrorism has left off. Bellicose statements have been made in the Press and by politicians, blaming the police, poor education, the orthodox (for the gay murder), whatever, for the pervasive feeling in Israel that it is no longe...