IFP Coverage- According to a report covered by IRNA, Shmuel Eliyahu, the municipal chief rabbi of Safed, says it is permissible to break the Sabbath in order to stop, and even shoot, Arab arsonists. Another spiritual leader also suggested that the wildfires raging in Israel are divine punishment for the delay in legalizing outposts in the West Bank....

A senior Israeli rabbi says Tel Aviv should execute Palestinians instead of arresting them and leave no one alive in order to establish safety in the occupied Palestinian territories, Palestinian media report. Israeli army has to stop arresting Palestinians, ShmuelEliyahusaid in a message posted on his Facebook page on Tuesday, adding, but, it must ...