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An American rabbinical group on Monday declared that it was placing a “pulsa dinura” (“lashes of fire”) curse on Arab MK Masoud Ganaim (Ra'am-Ta'al). The group, calling itself “the Great Pulsa Dinura Committee,” said that Ganaim deserved the curse because he refused to stand when Israel's national anthem, Hatikvah, was played at a recent event, and for ripping up in the Knesset a copy of a law to regulate Bedouin settlement of the Negev. In a statement, the “Pulsa Dinura Committee” said that it had deliberated on Ganaim's actions, and had determined that it had no choice but to impose...

Yosef Dayan, who enacted a pulsa denura – Aramaic for "lashes of fire" – death curse against Yitzhak Rabin shortly before his assassination, has received a green light from kabbalistic rabbis to place the same curse on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the next few days. "This is the next step and it needs to be prepared," Dayan told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. "We need to do this since [Sharon] and the system he runs are not stopping." Dayan, who said he had met with several senior rabbis recently seeking permission to place the curse, met Tuesday with Yehoshua...