ISRAEL
Jerusalem Post
By LAHAV HARKOV
08/07/2013
Female lawmakers sympathized with Rabbi Motti Elon’s victim Wednesday, after a court ruled him guilty of indecent assault by force against a minor.
MK Aliza Lavie (Yesh Atid), one of the founders of the Committee on Sexual Harassment in the religious feminist organization Kolech, said “it is a sad day for religious Zionism, but an important one and a milestone.”
Lavie expressed support for the members of the Takana Forum against sexual abuse in the religious Zionist community and commended their dedication and trust in those who complained.
“We should remember that even though the Rabbi Elon case raised a lot of public interest, it is one out of many cases that the Takana Forum has heard since its foundation,” Lavie said. “If a few years ago the assumption in the religious world was ‘it doesn’t happen to us,’ today it is clear that sexual harassment exists in the religious community like in any other, but unlike in the past, now there is where to turn.”
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