Energy Minister Dr. Yuval Steinitz (Likud) attacked the leftist demonstrators who disturbed Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit last night in a Petah Tikva synagogue during his recitation of the mourner’s prayer for his mother, who passed away two weeks ago.
"The right to demonstrate and freedom to express one’s opinion is not the right to terrorize public figures and public servants in their homes, their families, or in the synagogues where they pray," Steinitz said.
"What we saw last night is not an expression of the right to express opinions, it is literally terrorism, the use of personal pressure against a person, his community and his family," he said. “These things must be prevented.”
"Demonstrations are not a tool to disrupt the life of a public figure and his family, they are not a tool to persecute a person, the attorney general, a police officer, a minister, a mayor or anyone else," Steinitz added.
"Anyone who harms the ability of the Attorney General to say Kaddish in his synagogue, in his community - this should be a criminal offense," Steinitz stressed. “Demonstrations - yes. Violence - and this is a type of violence - no.”
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