Is it true that the Israeli rabbin court made a decision on the “mortal danger” of vaccines from coronavirus?

On the Internet, screenshots of documents in Hebrew are distributed - users claim that this is the official decision of the religious court on the dangers of vaccination. We checked whether this is really so.

Screenshots, which appeared in early September on several sites and in different social networks, in most cases are accompanied by a signature that the picture presents the “decision of the main court of the Israeli rabbits”. The verdict is allegedly based on “a thorough verification of facts, many evidence that definitely prove the mortal danger of vaccination” and “applies to the territory of the Israel state”. Participants in the religious court, according to Internet users, decided that it is necessary to prohibit pressure on those who do not want to vaccinate, as well as the vaccination of children and adolescents. Screenshots are quite actively distributed in "VKontakte", Livejournal, Facebook, "Yandex.Zen", Cont.ws and on other platforms. September 7, 2021 about this "court decision" told On the air on YouTube, actress Maria Shukshina is one of the most media representatives of Russian anti -Vaxes, who has repeatedly Caught on the distribution of fakes about coronavirus. At the time of writing this material, the video on the Shukshina channel watched almost 300,000 times.

In Israel, in addition to secular judiciary, the rabbinsky courts also work. They Take out Decisions on family disputes and religious issues. In a number of other cases, the verdict of the Rabbinsky Court is considered an equivalent decision of the secular judge. In addition to 12 regional rabbinsky courts, there is a Supreme Rabbi court, headed by one of the two main rabbis of Israel. On the official one site Institutions we were not able to find verdicts whose screenshots are distributed on the Internet. Moreover, decisions on issues related to healthcare are not included in the sphere of responsibility of this judicial authority.

Israel is quite fast became One of the leaders in the level of vaccination of the population. Although now this indicator Remains At a fairly high level, the authorities were faced with the same problem as in many other countries - with opponents of vaccinations and skeptics. At the same time, how Show Sociological surveys, especially a low desire to vaccinate, expressed Israeli Arabs, emigrants from the countries of the former USSR and representatives of ultra -ore Jews. Although some rabbis Publishing Photos from hospitals where vaccination is carried out, and call on to get used to the coronavirus, many of their colleagues adhered to or continue to adhere to the opposite position.

The screenshots of documents that attach to allegedly news about the decision of the court are combined into one picture - using the search by the photo, it can only be found on the Russian -speaking Internet. The image quality is quite low, so we could not distinguish at least something in the screenshot in the lower right corner. At the same time, two other “court decisions” were adopted by various initiative groups at different times.

The largest screenshots (left) began to replicate recently - at the end of August in Hebrew And in early September in Russian. It was his text who read on his round table Shukshin. Although the document was signed by four rabbis, he has nothing to do with the Supreme Rabbinsky court (and, therefore, legal force). The screenshot states that after discussing with experts (their names are not named), the signatures came to the conclusion about the potential danger of vaccination from coronavirus - in particular, the text is given, in particular, a popular Treatment On the effect of vaccine on fertility. Based on the presence of side effects from vaccines, the signatures conclude that, according to Jewish law, it is necessary to refuse vaccination (and coercion of vaccination), especially when it comes to children. Zvi Grinhouise, Janun Malahi, Ovadya Bin Hagar Yakov Yoseph and Moshe Mordechai Karp, put their signatures under the statement.

Note that the title of this document coincides with the name of the online conference, which Spent At the end of July 2021, the organization “informed choice” (the video on its website appeared later, August 12). We cannot reliably argue about the relationship between the document and this discussion - judging by the video, the signatures of the rabbi document did not take part in it. Nevertheless, if they were based on this discussion, then the selection of its participants unequivocally reports on the “independence” of experts on whose evidence a statement that has spread on the Internet was built. Among the speakers was, for example, one of the former Pfizer leaders, and now "Hero of Anti -Vaxes" Mike Yadon, American cardiologist Peter McCulo (in the spring of 2021 declaredthat people under the age of 50 have no risk of health in case of illness) and the New York doctor Vladimir (Zev) Zelenko-he Offered To treat coronavirus with a mixture of anti-malarial drugs and unreasonably argued that the American authorities approved this method (subsequently the investigation began against it because of this).

The second picture (left above) began place On social networks at the end of 2020. The document entitled “Warning and a strict ban on receiving a vaccine from coronavirus” and is really signed by several rabbis: David Michael Shmidel, Zvi Arya Zarger and Harom Khaimom Rabinovich. In January 2021, even about this statement They told In some Israeli media, while saying that Rabinovich later said that the signed document was published "without his knowledge and his displeasure." In this text, as in the above, the popular fakes about vaccines are reflected - not only about the risk of infertility, but also about their capabilities Change DNA. Moreover, the authors claim the existence of several (and at the same time not called directly) drugs for Covid-19, the use of which “blocks the medical establishment” is also quite popular among antivax Treatment, largely associated with the above Zelenko.

Thus, the screenshots replicated on the Russian -speaking Internet are in no way connected with the Supreme Rabbi Court of Israel. We were able to trace the history of two of three distributed documents - they are both really signed by rabbis, but they do not have legal force and contain calls, and not links to official decisions. These calls are nevertheless based on already repeatedly refuted false allegations of coronavirus and vaccination. Moreover, since the end of 2020, a number of rabbis are publicly Supported vaccination, and at the end of August 2021 one of the most authoritative rabbis of Israel declaredthat the teachers who have not been vaccinated should not teach in local religious schools. As notes The Times of Israel, this position is even more radical than that of the secular authorities regarding teachers in ordinary schools (the latter can be provided, instead of a vaccination certificate, for example, a negative PCR test).

We thank our reader Mikhail Yucis for help in preparing the publication.

Photo on the cover: Yaacov Cohen / Flash90

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