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  • Haredim: Police 'humiliated' Valis

    04/13/2006 12:16:57 AM PDT · by CAWats · 10 replies · 489+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | Apr. 12, 2006 | BY MATTHEW WAGNER, JUDY SIEGEL AND ETGAR LEFKOVITZ
    Some hundred haredim were demonstrating outside the Jerusalem police headquarters on Passover eve against the arrest of Yisrael Asher Valis, who was accused of beating his three-month-old son to death. According to the demonstrators, Valis is innocent and has been "humiliated" by the police and the press. The death of the baby on Monday led a leading haredi rabbi to accuse the police and the justice authorities of concocting a Pessah eve blood libel. Rabbi Yitzhak Weiss, halachic authority and spiritual leader for Jerusalem's virulently anti-Zionist Eda Haredit community, said the indictment of the yeshiva student was "identical to the...