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Top Israeli Rabbi Calls Quake in Turkey, Syria ’Divine Justice’

Tuesday 14 February 2023
Top Israeli Rabbi Calls Quake in Turkey, Syria ’Divine Justice’

Alwaght- A senior Israeli rabbi said the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on 7 February was "divine justice".

Shmuel Eliyahu, who serves as the chief Rabbi of Safed in occupied Palestinian territories and is a member of the Chief Rabbinate Council, claimed that God was punishing countries affected by the disaster because of their alleged mistreatment of the Jewish people.

"God is judging all the nations around us who wanted to invade our land and throw us into the sea," Eliyahu wrote in an op-ed published in the Olam Katan newspaper on Friday.

Some 38,000 people were killed in Monday's devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked Turkey and Syria. According to latest statistics, 31,974 lost their lives in Turkey and more than 5,800 in Syria.  

In his column, Eliyahu claimed that Syria had "abused its Jewish residents for hundreds of years, invaded Israel three times, shot for years at the farmers who lived at the foot of the Golan Heights, abused captives and hanged [Israeli spy] Eli Cohen."

He also took aim at Lebanon, which was rocked by the quake and is facing a debilitating financial crisis, writing: "There is no doubt that the country, which was once the 'Switzerland of the Middle East' has become hell on earth, and such things do not happen by chance."

As for Turkey, which served as the epicenter of the quake, he wrote: "We don't know what the Heaven's accounts are with Turkey, which slandered us in every possible arena, but if God reveals that he is going to make judgments on our enemies, we know that everything that happens is to clean the world and make it better."

Eliyahu, who is the father of right-wing parliamentarian and Israel's minister of heritage, Amihai Ben-Eliyahu, has repeatedly courted controversy over his anti-Palestinian and Arab remarks, and has been indicted for inciting racism.

In 2008, he called on the Tel Aviv regime to carry out "state-sanctioned revenge" against Arabs in order to restore what he described as the regime's deterrence in the wake of an attack at a Jewish school in al-Quds.

And in 2019, he told teenagers suspected of murdering a Palestinian woman in the West Bank that they shouldn't fear prison as that's where the road to political power begins, prompting several rights groups to call for disciplinary action and criminal charges to be filed against him.

 

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