JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Yaakov Litzman has cut a deal with Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit, becoming the second Charedi MK to do so in the past few weeks, after a deal was reached with Shas MK Aryeh Deri who resigned his Knesset seat as part of a plea bargain.
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Litzman, the former minister and UTJ leader, will plead guilty to breach of public confidence in the Malka Leifer matter, along with a token 3,000 shekel fine and a conditional prison sentence, but other more severe charges, including obstruction of justice, will be dropped. He will not be charged in the “Hama’adaniyah” episode.
In addition, Litzman will resign from the Knesset without being accused of moral turpitude
Mr. Litzman was suspected of using his influence as health minister to protect private individuals at the expense of public safety. He was health minister from 2015-17 and from 2019-20.
He allegedly stalled the extradition to Australia of accused pedophile Malka Leifer. He is suspected of pressuring a top psychiatric official to falsely declare Leifer mentally unfit to stand trial. She was deported last January and faces 74 separate charges of child sexual abuse.
In response to the news, the Magen organization issued a statement:
“To our regret, today marks the close of a difficult period that caused a great deal of distress to the victims of Malka Leifer. We identify with the anger of the heroic victims at this plea bargain, and even though according to Israel law they are not considered party to this case, there was room to have listened to their opinions. We hope that this admission will put an end to these serious actions, and that next time around, politicians will realize that they are not above the law.”
Mandelblit is set to retire at the end of this month, and has been working finalizing on multiple plea bargain deals with high-level politicians before the end of his service.
If the accusations against him are true and he was informed about what was going on, then he should be punished much more severely!
Why on earth was is so important to invest time and recourses to prevent a dangerous predator from facing deserved justice!!! why is is SOOO important to have predator’s roaming around freely wrecking havoc on our own children???
If you recall the Vishnitzer Rebbe met with Netanyahu in what was called an historic visit, the ONLY time he personally met with an Israeli prime minister, and wat was reason for the visit?? to beg Netanyahu to intervene in the Malka Lifer case and prevent her extradition to Australia (!!!!)
Our self appointed leaders are a bunch of idiots.
Instead of reforming Kashrus and Giur, we should focus on reforming Charedi MK.
It’s a good thing we have Charedim in the Knesset to show the Chilonim how much better Bnei Torah behave.
Is every Charedi politician a Crook??
He is the same guy that particapated in the expulsion of gush katif!!litzman ran away so there won’t be enough votes against,all for a few dollars for the yeshiva.
Wonderful. When is the chesed appeal
Orthodox Jews who stand by or even defend abusers have no standing to complain about alleged moral failings of anyone else.
As Michael Kay would say, “looking up see ya!”
He was wronged, The “top Psychiatric official” is the bad guy here. No psychiatrist worth his license should be capable of changing their report. I cant believe no one sees this.
I don’t believe any Jew should be given over to a non jewish country. They did it to mayer Lanskey. They did it to William Nakash who killed an Arab in France. They did it to a JDL fellow who killed a Nazi in America who murdered twenty thousand Jews. The Israeli government is most corrupt. They could of just kept this Leifer woman in an Israeli jail. They hate religious Jews. There are girls being raped every day in the army by their generals. Every girl in the army is entitled to three abortions free. Satmar rebbe Rav Yoilish was so right. The Zionist are the enemies of Torah. I wonder what the rebbe would say today to the gay parades in Jerusalem. Israel today is worse than sodom.
This was done with the approval of a few admorim and askanim.
Litzman is a smart honest man.