The Reform Movement condemned the words of the rabbi of Safed, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, who was interviewed this morning on Channel 2 in the affair of the arrested youth in the murder of an Arab woman near Rehovot as a result of stone throwing.
Gilad Kariv, the director general of the movement, said, "Rabbi Eliyahu should have been dismissed from his public office a decade ago, because he was a racist, and because of the serial violation of all the rules required of a public office holder. Instead, he enjoys de facto immunity from Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, who refuses to take disciplinary action against him.
It is shameful for the State of Israel that a man like Rabbi Eliyahu serves as a city rabbi and as a member of the Chief Rabbinate Council, and this is a disgrace to the justice system. Which gives its embarrassing silence a backwind to a person like him. "