MKs slam Netanyahu over his son dating a non-Jewish Norwegian woman
Shas MK Ze’ev says PM failed to set example for the Jews by preventing son from dating woman; Likud MK Feiglin calls affair “unfortunate.”
ed note–at the risking of beating a dead horse, nevertheless CAN YOU JUST IMAGINE
the noise,
THE NOISE
THE NOISE
THE NOISE
if a Gentile head of state were being criticized by members of his parliament because his son were dating a Jew???????
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
failed to set an example for the Jewish people by not preventing his
son from dating a non-Jewish Norwegian woman, Shas MK Nissim Ze’ev told
The Jerusalem Post Sunday.
According to the report in the
Norwegian newspaper Dagen, when the prime minister met Norwegian Prime
Minister Erna Solberg for a diplomatic meeting in Davos last week, he
boasted of his son Yair’s relationship with Sandra Leikanger from
Grimstad, Norway.
A
source close to Netanyahu’s son confirmed that she is not Jewish. But
her older sister Ida, who moved to Israel, has converted to Judaism.
“It’s a big problem,” Ze’ev said.
“As the prime minister of Israel and the Jewish people, he must display
national responsibility via the values he presents inside his own
household. I bet it pains him. Any Jew who wants to maintain his roots
wants to see his son marry a Jewish girl. There is no shortage of
beautiful, successful girls without sowing in the fields of others.”
Ze’ev said he thought Netanyahu
understood the importance of representing the Jewish people and the
beauty of Jewish values. He praised him for walking two kilometers back
to his hotel on Friday evening in Davos so as not to violate Shabbat,
following meetings at the World Economic Forum.
There was also criticism for
Netanyahu from within his own party. “All I can say is that it is very
unfortunate,” MK Moshe Feiglin said.
World Zionist Organization vice
chairman David Breakstone, who represents the worldwide Conservative
movement, said he hopes that if the relationship becomes serious she
would want to convert to Judaism.
“The laws should change in order
to enable Leikanger to convert to Judaism as she and the Netanyahu
family would understand it,” Breakstone said. “She should not be limited
to a Judaism as understood and interpreted by a Chief Rabbinate with an
antiquated interpretation of Judaism that is out of sync with the
majority of Jews around the world.”
The anti-assimilation group
Lehava wrote on Monday, following the media reports: “Bibi’s son has
found a gentile! His father is proud of him and gives legitimacy to the
assimilation and destruction of the Jewish people.”
The prime minister’s second wife,
Fleur Cates, was also not Jewish but converted to Judaism. Netanyahu
and Cates were married between 1981-84.
Israeli media picked up the
story, curious about what security measures were put in place if in fact
Yair had traveled to Norway for a visit with his new love interest –
according to photos posted on the girlfriend’s Facebook page, the
couple’s trip there seems to be verified.
Yair, 23, made news in June when
he heckled Yesh Atid faction chairman Ofer Shelach when the MK spoke at
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where Yair is a student.
Students in the right-wing student group Lavie said Yair’s views were “just like his father’s.”
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