Rabbi's case: The indictment against Rabbi Bakshi Doron is not canceled

Jerusalem District Court rejected this weekend (Thursday) the request of the former Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rishon LeZion Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi - Doron to dismiss the indictment against him for abuse of process.

Indictment against Rabbi Bakshi Doron late last year for involvement in the Rabbis case, during which he issued false certificates of ordained for more than 1,000 soldiers and police. According to the indictment, using false titles were obtained fraudulently from the state systematically million salary supplement to military and police which do not have paid basis.

The lawyers of Rabbi Bakshi Doron, Yaakov Weinroth and Yaron Kostelitz raised a number of arguments for the protection of justice. One was that the state made improper testimony at the trial of Rabbi Yitzchak Ohana, who was director of certification exams and the Chief Rabbinate. Rabbi Bakshi Doron was summoned as a witness in a lawsuit after he was questioned under caution but not prosecuted and he believed then that the case against him was closed. But during his testimony it was first confirmed that Rabbi Ohana instructed to recognize several dozen documents, but said he did not know the extent of the phenomenon.

Following this evidence the case against Rabbi Bakshi - Doron reopened, and he was summoned for further questioning under caution, and his words were used in court. Attorney's Weinroth and Kostelitz claimed during testimony that because the rabbi was not given right not to incriminate himself, the use made of the words is wrong and therefore there are no grounds for prosecution.

Judge Zvi Segal used this argument and responded by saying that there was indeed defective conduct of the prosecution in the trial of Rabbi Ohana, when Rabbi Bakshi - Doron was not put on the right to avoid self-incrimination. However, he states, it was not a malicious act, because of the great change in his version in court surprised the lawsuit and she could not have foreseen that he would incriminate himself in his testimony.

Segal also states that the primary use of the testimony of the police by Rabbi Bakshi - Doron was using indirect and direct use. He was not confronted with the evidence, but was asked to give his version of both the face and words in light of previous investigations words in court. Only further investigation relates the Rabbi was directly asked about Rabbi Ohana's trial testimony.

Judge Segal emphasized that at this stage he does not refer to the admissibility of evidence, which he would later discuss. "We must not forget that the acts attributed to the accused are part differentials serious level, where the alleged fortune these and other factors in rabbinic authorities in the relevant countries by providing false credentials to obtain wage benefits sail. Should also remember that, because against many mixed cases, most positions of junior defendant in this case, including low-level officials in the rabbinate and other factors, charges were filed and branching branches. Some were even convicted, sentenced and they began their sentence."

He said, "In these circumstances, considerations of justice, fairness and equality deny the main cancellation of the indictment in this case, since paraphrase the famous Talmudic expression that may not flame these luminaries will not fall, but the mossy wall – will upload fire and "burn."

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