A military rabbi, along with a number of IDF soldiers and Chabad members affixed a mezuzah Monday on a wall at the entrance to one of the most sensitive areas in Yesha – the Casbah in Hebron.
Judea Brigade Rabbi Captain Eliyahu Peretz presided over the unusual ceremony, which lasted only a few minutes. Aluf Yehuda Fucks, Mahat Yehuda, has launched an IDF investigation into the matter, and the mezuzah has gone missing in any case since then.
Following the incident, Peace Now leader, Yariv Oppenheimer, issued a statement saying "the rabbi and the soldiers who participated in the illegal and political ceremony must be put on trial. The IDF has turned into the servant of the settlers...and not for the first time," the extreme leftist leader said.
According to Yossi Nachshon, the Chabad shaliach to Hebron who took part in the ceremony, during his recent visit to Hebron, Rabbi Shlomo Rizel of New York "gave an order to support the residents spiritually and raise their morale as well as cheer up the soldiers" and place a mezuzah at the entrance to the ancient city of our forefathers.
"The Palestinians never pass through this area anyway," Nachshon said. "This is a Jewish place, and we did nothing wrong. The area is strictly Jewish."
