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Jerusalem - Yad L'Achim Activist Rumored to Have Been Found Murdered

Published on:   August 16, 2009 09:40 AM
News Source:  COLlive.com
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Jerusalem - An Israeli Lubavitcher who was active in anti-missonary and intermarriage causes is rumored to have been found handcuffed and murdered.

Refael Miriashvilli, a single 25 year-old coordinator for Yad L’Achim combating anti-Jewish activity, went missing three weeks ago, leaving few traces or clues to his whereabouts.

Before leaving his parent’s home in the city of Lod, he told his sister Sarah he was taking a train to the north of Israel. “I got a new job. Tell mom I prepared her dinner,” he said.

Four years earlier, Miriashvilli was sentenced to a year in prison by a Tel Aviv court for kidnapping an Arab man who was involved with a young Jewish girl. She was pregnant at the time.

When he first disappeared, his mother Chanie Miriashvilli didn’t connect the two incidents. But hours later she filed a police report, only to be told ‘these things are common.’

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This past Friday police visited the Miriashvilli home and took DNA samples, COLlive has learned.

The reason was a rotting body found in an abandoned building near the Beit Dagon Junction.

An initial investigation revealed that the handcuffed body lay there well over a week.

Police have yet to release an official statement on whether the body found is in fact Miriashvilli.


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 Aug 16, 2009 at 08:53 AM Anonymous Says:

this is terrable

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 Aug 16, 2009 at 09:22 AM Anonymous Says:

May HaShem avenge his death, and may He comfort the deceased man's family.

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 Aug 16, 2009 at 09:07 AM Anonymous Says:

hy"d

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 Aug 16, 2009 at 09:03 AM Hopefully Says:

Hopefully it wasn't his body.

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 Aug 16, 2009 at 09:44 AM Anonymous Says:

Shliach mitzvah einoi nizoikin. Hopefully he's alive and healthy in the z'chus of the invaluable mitzvos he did for our nation.
Hashem Yaazor

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 Aug 16, 2009 at 10:48 AM Don't give up Hope Says:

Everyone, let's not give up hope. Yad L'Achim are heroes. I am going to start B'N supporting their anti-missionary efforts again. When I was a bachor I always bought their wall calender. They are tzaddikim. HKBH will bless them and all that help them. AMEN. Say tehillim....

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 Aug 16, 2009 at 10:21 AM Anonymous Says:

He is missing for a while why did Chabad not organize a massive search?

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 Aug 16, 2009 at 11:43 AM Yosef Says:

OMG!!!
How can you say such a thing? Have you not any fear of pronouncing such a curse against a meis -- regardless of what you think about his work?

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 Aug 16, 2009 at 01:00 PM chosid Says:

Reply to #12  
Yosef Says:

OMG!!!
How can you say such a thing? Have you not any fear of pronouncing such a curse against a meis -- regardless of what you think about his work?

Not to worry, Hashem's shliach doing the most precious work there is - saving neshamos - won't be affected by sheker and hevel.

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 Aug 16, 2009 at 07:41 PM yos Says:

Yad L'Achim, is in my personal opinion one of the most amazing organizations in Klal Yisroel.

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 Aug 17, 2009 at 12:00 AM A. Nuran Says:

He may be alive, which would be good. He may be dead, which would be sad.

It sounds like he got a lot of people seriously angry. If you commit violent crimes because you disapprove of whom they sleep with you stand a good chance of ending up face down in a ditch. People in the real world just don't take kindly to violent, criminal religious fanatics. It could be the family of one of his victims. It could be for any of the reasons why men kill each other - money, women, a criminal enterprise gone bad, being in the wrong place at the wrong time. At this point it's all speculation.

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 Aug 17, 2009 at 07:21 AM read! Says:

#15 you are simply misinformed. Studies have shown that virtually %100 of israeli women married to arab men in villages such as the one this women lived in, are suffering from the worst types of physical and mental abuse!

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 Aug 17, 2009 at 07:45 AM A. Nuran Says:

Even if I were misinformed, how would it signify.

Men kill each other for all sorts of reasons. If this guy was murdered - and that's just speculation at the moment - it could be for any one of them. And if it was because of his political activities, well, here's a guy who committed violent crimes against strangers for political reasons. They may have been good reasons or bad reasons, but there's no denying that's exactly what he did. If you do that sort of thing your chances of dying at the hands of other violent criminals or political opponents or the families of your victims rise sharply.

That's the way the world works. It really is that simple.

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 Aug 17, 2009 at 11:36 AM Anonymous Says:

Reply to #17  
A. Nuran Says:

Even if I were misinformed, how would it signify.

Men kill each other for all sorts of reasons. If this guy was murdered - and that's just speculation at the moment - it could be for any one of them. And if it was because of his political activities, well, here's a guy who committed violent crimes against strangers for political reasons. They may have been good reasons or bad reasons, but there's no denying that's exactly what he did. If you do that sort of thing your chances of dying at the hands of other violent criminals or political opponents or the families of your victims rise sharply.

That's the way the world works. It really is that simple.

You are accusing someone of saving lives, and women from extreem abuse, as possibly doing it for "Plitical reasons". Do you really mean what you wrote???

That is extreemely offensive!

The man saved women from abuse and rape, and you passively suggest that he may have been done it as a "political activist" and for "political reasons" ????

Even the so called "kidnapping" was to save a women from exteem abuse! can you equate that to a "Criminal".

If you were able to stop a women from being beaten, by beating the offender, would you say, "I need to wait for the Police"

In the cases that Yad L'achim deals eith, the politiciesed police can't get involved!!!
So the women remains helpless!

Yad L'achim help the mmost needy!

To simply clasify that as "a guy who commited violent crimes against strangers" is like saying the same on the heroic "Partizans" who did much more than "kidnaping" to the NAZIS to save thousands of Jews and Gentiles from suffering and death.

BTW fighting intermariage is also not for political reasons. but that's irrelavent, as in these cases it's about the abuse! Yad "l'achim only uses force when a women's life and health is at risk!

Yad L'achim's work is well known to many. May G-D Bless them!

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 Aug 17, 2009 at 12:32 PM Anonymous Says:

Reply to #10  
Anonymous Says:

He is missing for a while why did Chabad not organize a massive search?

Chabad Did and continues to!

So fast single out and question CHABAD!

May Chabad keep up it's great work there, and everywhere! and may he be found alive and well!

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 Aug 17, 2009 at 12:43 PM malach Says:

Today's news reports that the body discovered was him. Dayan ha emet. However, if the articles are correct, then the police should have let him leave the country as he was clearly in jeopardy. One of the pillars of Arab culture is personal revenge.

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 Aug 17, 2009 at 01:35 PM anonymous Says:

this is so sad! yad laachim members/volunteers are truly amazing that they risk their lives to save jewihs woman from the arabs...knowing full and well that they are putting their lives in jeopardy. may hashem avenge his blood!

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 Aug 17, 2009 at 02:14 PM fact! Says:

He did not work for Yad L'Achim. FACT

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 Aug 17, 2009 at 06:37 PM Anonymous Says:

Reply to #18  
Anonymous Says:

You are accusing someone of saving lives, and women from extreem abuse, as possibly doing it for "Plitical reasons". Do you really mean what you wrote???

That is extreemely offensive!

The man saved women from abuse and rape, and you passively suggest that he may have been done it as a "political activist" and for "political reasons" ????

Even the so called "kidnapping" was to save a women from exteem abuse! can you equate that to a "Criminal".

If you were able to stop a women from being beaten, by beating the offender, would you say, "I need to wait for the Police"

In the cases that Yad L'achim deals eith, the politiciesed police can't get involved!!!
So the women remains helpless!

Yad L'achim help the mmost needy!

To simply clasify that as "a guy who commited violent crimes against strangers" is like saying the same on the heroic "Partizans" who did much more than "kidnaping" to the NAZIS to save thousands of Jews and Gentiles from suffering and death.

BTW fighting intermariage is also not for political reasons. but that's irrelavent, as in these cases it's about the abuse! Yad "l'achim only uses force when a women's life and health is at risk!

Yad L'achim's work is well known to many. May G-D Bless them!

would you want an arab extremist coming into your home and kidnapping your husband because they feel that thyey are following thier god and koran? kiddnapping in against torah and civil law PERIOD!

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 Aug 18, 2009 at 07:27 AM Anonymous Says:

Reply to #23  
Anonymous Says:

would you want an arab extremist coming into your home and kidnapping your husband because they feel that thyey are following thier god and koran? kiddnapping in against torah and civil law PERIOD!

You are seemingly confused:

The issue is about saving women from extreme abuse!
Yad L'achim don't use force unless the woman's health and life is at risk!

So to answer your question, YES!!! if someone's health and life is in real danger, or is stuck in a house against her will, and feels that she can't leave herself without risking her life. Then YES, anyone, (regardless of ethnicity - Arab/Jew) should do whatever they can - even if it means to use FORCE against the sick predator - to rescue the helpless women!!!
Wouldn't you agree???

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 Aug 18, 2009 at 07:44 AM Anonymous Says:

Are you really comparing a heroic life saver and rescuer, to a kidnapper???
I don't understand your thinking!!
You are SO wrong about saying that what Yad L'achim does (in targeting the predator who holds a women captive) is equal to Kidnapping.
That is the kind of redaric you can expect from a "court" with a special agenda.
But WE should not be repeating such nonsense!!!!! Should we?

Just think about a women in YOUR life who you are close to, (mother, sister, wife, daughter etc.) would you still be saying what you did???

Out of curiosity, PLEASE tell me why you took the angel you did:
Was it a Mistake? --- or do we need to question who you really are?!!!



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