Religious Violence

Notes

1. See Yedioth Ahronoth , March 11, 1974.

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- Amudim, The Journal of the Religious Kibbutz Movement(Elul, 5739)(1979): 417;

emphasis in the original.

See Israel Meir Kagan , Mishnah Berurah 262:9.

See Hayyim Joseph David Axulai, Sefer Avodat Hakodesh, Chapter 4, 152, p- 30b. See Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook , Lights of Repentance, Chapter 17, 3, pp. 159-60.

-“At 9:30 p.m. on 14 October(1953), soldiers from Unit 101 and an IDF para­

troop unit crossed the border and attacked the village of Kibya... Houses were blown up during the operation and dozens of people were killed or wounded. Reports on the number of slain ranged from 43 to 56 persons.... The raid was conducted after several incidents in which infiltrators from Jordan had attacked Israeli citizens, culminating in the murders in Yahud, in which Arab infiltrators threw a grenade through an open window into a house, killing a mother and her two children, aged 1 and 3.”(Documents on the Foreign Policy of Israel, Vol. 8(Jerusalem , 1995), p. 357).

- Ha'aretz, November 6, 1995. Shimon Weiser,“Purity of Arms: An Exchange of

Letters,” Niv Hamidrashiyah 11: 29-30(emphasis in the original). For example, Responsa Beer Sheva 48(sixteenth century); Moses Sofer , Responsa hatam Sofer 5,124 and 7, 35(nineteenth century). See also my article “Reshut mi‘malakhei Ha’habalah” Ha'aretz, November 14, 1995.

- This essay is based in part on the author’s book Evolving Halakhah(Vermont ,

1999).