Rabbis Condemn Attack on Mosque, Replace Burnt Korans
A day after the torching of the Beit Fajar mosque near Bethlehem, apparently by a group of extreme settlers, a delegation of prominent settler rabbis visited the site and publicly condemned the attack.
The delegation included Rabbi Lichtenstein from Gush Etzion, Rabbi Menachem Fruman from Tekoa, Efrat’s Chief Rabbi Shlomi Rifkin and Rabbi Shlomo Brin from Yeshivat Har Etzion. They were escorted by IDF officers and jeeps,while dozens of Palestinian policemen deployed at the village and around the mosque – a day after a request to carry out the visit was denied.
Rabbi Brin stated that “Our goal is to share our horror at the attack of the mosque and to clearly state that this is not the way of the Torah or the Jewish way.”