The Jerusalem District Attorney's Office, with the approval of the Attorney General and the State Prosecutor's Office, informed Bentzi Gopstein, head of the Lehava anti-assimilation organization, today that he will be tried on criminal charges, subject to a hearing on suspicion of incitement to violence, incitement to racism and incitement to terrorism.
Gopstein is suspected making statements to the media that amounted to calls for acts of violence on a number of occasions between 2012 and 2017. In addition, Gopstein allegedly incited racism, as well as support and sympathy for the terrorist acts perpetrated by Baruch Goldstein, who was killed after killing 29 Arabs at the Me'arat Hamachpela Cave of the Patriarchs in Hevron on Purim in 1994.