A rabbi of a West Bank settlement has written to "the new Hasomeans" in a bid to tackle the rise in extremism.
In the wake of the rash of "price tag" attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinian mosques, cars and property, Efrat’s Rabbi Shlomo Riskin called on Jews in the West Bank to cease their behaviour before it was too late.
Rabbi Riskin wrote in a piece in Ha’aretz that the price tag rioters saw themselves "as similar to the ancient heroes of Judea, who fought against the Greek-Syrian rabble that desecrated the Temple".
But he said that those who considered themselves to be "the Maccabees who do not bow their heads before the Hellenising priestly establishment,” were making “a fundamental mistake".