Hardline Israeli rabbi ruling on stolen Palestinian olives prompts uproar
- A hardline religious ruling justifying the theft of Palestinian olive harvests escalates violence and political tensions before Israeli elections.
- Prominent Israeli Rabbi Dov Lior issued a Jewish religious ruling on Friday permitting settlers to steal olives from Palestinian orchards in the occupied West Bank.
- Lior’s ruling claims that Palestinian landowners who could not access their olives during the harvest season due to Israeli restrictions have been sufficiently compensated in the years they had access to the fruit.
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- A hardline religious ruling justifying the theft of Palestinian olive harvests escalates violence and political tensions before Israeli elections.
- Prominent Israeli Rabbi Dov Lior issued a Jewish religious ruling on Friday permitting settlers to steal olives from Palestinian orchards in the occupied West Bank.
- Lior’s ruling claims that Palestinian landowners who could not access their olives during the harvest season due to Israeli restrictions have been sufficiently compensated in the years they had access to the fruit.
Sources: Al Jazeera