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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 12:57 15/10/2007 Police want charges against attorney who slapped MK over Nazi slur By Jonathan Lis and Yair Ettinger, Haaretz Correspondents and Haaretz Service Police investigations and intelligence chief Yohanan Danino on Monday recommended Attorney Amnon de Hartog stand trial for slapping MK Yaakov Cohen (United Torah Judaism) in the Knesset in July. De Hartog, who headed the Justice Ministry's department of support of funding, took a leave of absence after he was censured and barred permanently from the Knesset following the incident. The incident occurred in the hallway after a Knesset Education Committee session, when Cohen told De Hartog he was "more evil and terrible than the Nazis" for opposing budgets for ultra-Orthodox schools. Advertisement "The Germans killed the body, you are killing the soul," Cohen said to him. Hartog was released subject to strict conditions after being questioned by police over the incident, and Cohen was examined by a neurologist. In an interview with Channel 1 television, Hartog apologized to Cohen and said his harsh response was prompted by the fact his parents were Holocaust refugees. He also cited what he called an "incitement campaign" against him. Both Shas and UTJ condemned Hartog for his actions. In addition, studies were suspended at the schools of the Gur Hasidic sect, which Cohen represents; students chanted Psalms to "avert the decrees" against Hasidism. Hartog's removal from the Knesset benefited United Torah Judaism, who had long tagged him an enemy to the ultra-Orthodox movement. "Hartog attempted to expel the Haredim from Israeli society as if we were Darfur refugees, to keep us from receiving the bare minimum. The slap demonstrates the hate he has accumulated, merely because we tell him to his face what we think about his tricky tactics," MK Avraham Ravitz (UTJ) said. "The master doesn't like it when the Jewboy tells him to his face what he thinks about him." Bookmark to del.icio.us Part of Jerusalem? PM Olmert questions whether Arab neighborhoods should be defined as part of the capital. Who is a Jew? Israel's draft constitution states that 'every Jew is entitled to immigrate to Israel.'   1.   Faith in the Israel Police restored 13:13  |  Charles Star 15/10/07   2.   MK COHEN SHOULD BE TRIED, BUT THIS 13:25  |  Robert 15/10/07   3.   ISRAELI DIVIDE IS WORRYING... 14:34  |  JEW 15/10/07   4.   Enormous provocation by ultra-orthodox 14:49  |  Esther 15/10/07   5.   Cohen Loses His Israeli Citizenship 15:16  |  True Moral 15/10/07   6.   Amnon de Hartogh provoked 15:20  |  Peter 15/10/07   7.   selling the "soul" 15:21  |  M 15/10/07   8.   Good one 16:08  |  Danite 15/10/07   9.   How dare he raise a hand against a Rabbi 16:32  |  Meir Weinstein 15/10/07   10.   Raising a hand against a Rabbi 16:54  |  Gary 15/10/07   11.   Reply to # 9 Lessons still to be learnt 17:30  |  SJ 15/10/07   12.   THE RABIS KNOW WHAT NAZIS ARE 18:03  |  BEN ADAM 15/10/07   13.   slapped 19:01  |  colin 15/10/07   14.   And three years for a cup of coffee 19:25  |  Ilan 15/10/07   15.   # 9 to meir weinstein in toronto 03:52  |  eric 16/10/07   16.   # 1 he who HAS no respect; deserves it even less 03:55  |  eric 16/10/07

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