Overview
- Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Zini filed the claim on January 5 through attorneys Yehiel Weinrot, Tal Shachaf, and Yehuda Schwartz, seeking NIS 500,000 in damages.
- The lawsuit centers on a September 4, 2025 front-page Haaretz supplement by Hilo Glazer that, according to the filing, linked Zini to an essay in Baruch HaGever said to praise the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre and to assert that “Do not kill” does not apply when a Jew kills a non-Jew.
- Zini denies any connection to the book or the statements, saying he is not listed among its authors and that basic fact-checking would have disproven the claims.
- The filing says the allegations were repeated in a September 22 article by Doron Koren, an editorial titled “Zini’s Test,” and a piece by Yossi Klein, which amplified the disputed claims.
- The complaint frames the coverage as a coordinated effort to damage the Zini family and to undercut David Zini’s appointment as head of the Shin Bet, and notes that no response from Haaretz is reported as the case begins.