# Israeli rabbi says politicians cooperating with Arab parties can be killed

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/israeli-rabbi-says-politicians-cooperating-with-arab-parties-can-be-killed/
- Published: 2026-11-13T13:34:42+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-13T14:39:47+00:00
- Original publisher: Middle East Eye (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-rabbi-rules-kill-politicians-cooperating-arab-parties
- Topics: Middle East, World

## Key points

- Rabbi Axelrod invoked a doctrine permitting lethal force.
- He applied it to Jewish leaders backing Arab-supported governments.
- The doctrine was cited by Rabin’s assassin in 1995.

## Summary

Rabbi Gedalya Axelrod, a former head of the Haifa Rabbinical Court, has issued a handwritten ruling saying Jewish party leaders who support a government backed by Arab parties could be treated under a religious doctrine that permits lethal force. His statement frames political cooperation as a threat to Jewish people and matters because it invokes a doctrine previously used to justify the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

The doctrine, din rodef, or “law of the pursuer”, applies to someone considered a threat to another person’s life and allows them to be stopped by any means necessary. Axelrod said collaboration with Arab parties posed a “terrible danger” to Jewish people in Israel and around the world. The article does not detail any response from the politicians or parties targeted by the ruling.

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