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Ashkelon, Israel - Orthodox Protest Across Israel Against Autopsy of Murdered Rebbetzin
Last updated on: 07-03-08 - 12:16 PM
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Police force at crime scene
Rabbi Samin, head of the Yemenite congregation in Ashkelon, found his wife tied and beaten on the floor of their home.
The court received the State Prosecutor’s Office demand to carry out an autopsy, which was followed by the family’s objection and a petition to the High Court of Justice filed by ZAKA members and a political official.
An Orthodox crowd protested the request for the autopsy and blocked Bar Ilan Street in Jerusalem using trash cans, and also hurled stones at a police car driving on Shivtei Yisrael Street in town.
In a hearing held at the Magistrate’s Court in Ashkelon, Rabbi Samin asked to make do with an external examination of the body and release it for burial. According to him, his wife did not die of the flu or any internal disease. However, the Southern District prosecutor, attorney Yiska Leibovitz demanded the body undergo a postmortem.
Judge Dina Cohen decided to wait until the opinion of Prof. Yehuda Hiss, after the report was received, the judge determined that there was room to conduct an autopsy on the body.
In response, ZAKA’s pro bono attorney Dror Schussheim petitioned The High Court to overrule the verdict. Meanwhile, political officials, including Shas Chairman Eli Yishai, are working on the case. Yishai approached Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter and Police Commissioner Dudi Cohen as well as other sources.
Samin’s family members were upset at the judge’s ruling and the prosecutor’s insistence. “The funeral date has been postponed three times already,” Samin’s son-in-law Tal-Or Atari said. “Rabbi Samin is caving under the pressure of the events and has had to be treated.
“As an Orthodox family, we firmly object to any postmortem and abashment of the deceased’s honor. The Halacha strictly forbids us from doing so, and the family feels like Rebbetzin Samin is being murdered twice,” said Atari.
“All of the findings indicate (death by) strangulation. The prosecution wishes to operate on the body only to rule out any other death causes, should they catch the murderers. This is not a good enough reason to disrespect the dead,” Samin’s son-in-law concluded.
U/D: 12:04pm
Reports that ZAKA and Police came to an agreement that the body will be transferred to Jerusalem Hadasah Hospital and only undergo an M.R.I. screening.
In Bnei Brak, police have arrested six Orthodox men for “smashing windshields and throwing rocks” during the demonstration.
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The High Court of Justice has instructed a Jerusalem hospital to release the body of Ziona Samin, the wife of a prominent rabbi, so it can be buried. In this ruling, the judges rejected a demand by the State Prosecutor’s Office that the body undergo an autopsy, after the MRI revealed that she had been strangled.
07-03-2008 - 11:08 AM
07-03-2008 - 11:22 AM
even a virtual autopsy can't pinpoint cause of death in cases of strangualtion .
being this involves a crime here in USA we would also have a hard time fighting an autopsy even though here in usa we b"h have a govt that
is simpathetic to religious objections and one can as well go before a judge to stop it in most cases
07-03-2008 - 11:35 AM
"being this involves a crime here in USA"
It doesn't.
It took place in Ashkelon.
07-03-2008 - 12:48 PM
07-03-2008 - 1:56 PM
I feel for the family, such a tragedy and now to suffer so much more pain. Unthinkable!!!
Now how many are in favor of accepting hundreds of thousands of goyim from all over the world and kashering them with quick conversions????
07-03-2008 - 3:02 PM
07-03-2008 - 3:47 PM
07-03-2008 - 4:12 PM
This is long established procedure accepted in Israel and most Western countries - Why has this suddenly raised a riot?
07-03-2008 - 5:05 PM
07-03-2008 - 5:09 PM
Maybe you can tell me which blogs, other then of reform jews?
Every 'goy' knows that there are much less crimes by jews(of course there is some, but percetige wise its much lower),the statistics are very clear.
But for some reason the reform jew see's only the bad in yhe jews (thats a reform jew - a self hateing jew)
07-03-2008 - 5:18 PM
On a technaical note, I believe lack of oxygen (strangulation) does something to the eyes and that's what they check for first for some type of cyonosis in the eyes. But it doesn't make a difference. If a person was found with a knife throught the heart they would still look for an excuse to do an autopsy, to make sure he wasn't strangled BEFORE the guy plunged as knife into his heart.
"Fed up Reform Jew Says:
Why oh why do you assume the murderer was a gentile? Jews commit crimes too. Read any blog (other than one written by a religious Jew afraid to paint his own people in a bad light) and it will be quickly evident that we're no better than the "goyim." "
Yes I agree. Fed up reform Jews are no better than goyim. And which blogs are you referring to? Der Shturm? The White Aryan Resistence? The Ku Klux Klan?
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