JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Journalist and former Knesset member Miki Rosenthal made a shocking statement Sunday night on the program “War Zone” on Channel 13, targeting a nonprofit organization that distributes free tefillin to children:
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“I would strangle him with tefillin,” Rosenthal said in response to a commercial by the “Chiyucho Shel Yeled” (“A Child’s Smile”) organization. He repeated the comment twice more—while using hand gestures to demonstrate the act of strangulation.
The commercial in question promoted the organization’s initiative to provide free tefillin to children, some of whom are from bereaved families. Host Baruch Kara, who presented the advertisement, expressed reservations about the script but emphasized that the organization is doing a good deed.
Following Rosenthal’s statement, immediate objections were raised by other panelists. Journalist Uri Misgav said: “Why add such nonsense to this?” and Baruch Kara himself said: “You went too far. That’s a disgusting, stupid, and ugly comment.”
However, instead of apologizing, Rosenthal continued making shocking remarks. In a post on his X (formerly Twitter) account, he attacked Chabad Hasidim and referred to the Lubavitcher Rebbe as a “false messiah.” According to him,
“The Rebbe’s foolish followers promote his candidacy as a false messiah and defile the land by plastering his pictures everywhere.”
He further wrote:
“Along the way, they’ve become a missionary movement that targets minors. From the moment tefillin are used to commit an offense, they lose their status as sacred Jewish ritual items.”
The subject of placing Tefillin has recently gained significant publicity after secular boys in a school in the Sharon region placed a tefillin stand in their school and the principal confiscated the Tefillin. The boys complained that there is no rule preventing placing Tefillin in school.
This week, Education Minister Yoav Kish issued a directive stating that every student in Israel can place Tefillin in school and should not be prevented or disturbed from doing so whenever he wishes.
It’s always the leftists who are the most tolerant, eh?
Rashah
The reason for such an extreme reaction comes from a deep place where his Neshama cries for connection to HaShem and Tefilin and he tries to fight it extra hard.
We are a Jewish state. Until we are proud of that and embrace our Judaism, we can’t expect outsiders to respect it. I’m proud of those other panelists for standing up for other Jews and those “non-religious” boys for setting up that teffilin stand.
Forget religion for a second. Those boys are missing something that their parents and their school and the secular government are not providing. A sense of purpose, a sense of belonging, a sense of being part of something bigger.
These leftists provide not alternatives. They want us to be like everyone else, live like everyone else. Why do we need a state if we are just like everyone else. We have no right to a state without our connection to our past.
What comes out of a horse’s ass has more relevance than what comes out of this moron Rosenthal’s mouth.
He got a good zionist education but i bet he respects islam
An expression of intent to kill should be taken more seriously if the person expressing it specifies a method. It means it’s not just a casual expression of anger, it’s actual premeditation. Maybe they don’t intend to act on it, but the desire is still sincere.
There was always eirev rav reshaim amongst us like this one since Yetzias Mitzrayim. Overall we’re mostly awsome!
His political history shows he long ago latched onto a lost cause. The zionist project is concluded, the Labor party and associated hangers-on have shrunk down to irrelevance. The frustration with his own faction’s total failure is quite apparent in that outburst. It’s easy to blame others rather than look in the mirror.
Hopefully he’ll choke to death on his next ham sandwich.
As a son of Holocaust survivors and fought on various fronts for Jewish causes and isreal
I would personally choke the lady breath from enemies from within as rosenenthal Yehmach shmo may he be erased from this world
nasty leftist liberal.
I can totally relate and share similar sentiment. Nevertheless we should all calm down.