Kiryat Motzkin Chief Rabbi HaRav Dovid Druckman Shlita has filed a complaint with police against the city’s mayor, Chaim Tzuri. The mayor reciprocated, filing a police complaint against the rav. According to the mayor, “It all began when I sat in his seat by mistake during an event he did not even attend”.

The rav’s complaint alleges the mayor was guilty of trespassing and intentionally damaging personal property. The rav explains the mayor intentionally caused damage to the entrance of the parking area of the women’s mikve on Grushkowitz Street. The rav explains he cannot tolerate the situation any longer, compelled to turn to police. He explains the locks were cut and the gate of the parking area was torn out of its place.

Tzuri told police that the story begins with the removal of a sign on the mikve by the chief rabbi. “The rabbi receives a salary for nothing. The city doesn’t interest him. He does not attend a single municipal event. He boycotts the Memorial Day event and he locked the mikve parking lot after deciding unilaterally to do so” the mayor explains.

Tzuri told Ladaat that a number of weeks ago, he unintentionally sat in the rav’s seat at the Memorial Day event and since then, the rav has it out for him. “Rabbi Druckman did not even attend the ceremony but his is angry anyway. This is a rav” asked the mayor.

Tzuri told Ladaat that he cannot understand why Rabbi Druckman did not call to work it out or express his anger instead of taking bizarre unilateral actions against him. The mayor adds that the mikve complex is the property of the city and it is the rabbi, not City Hall, that has trespassed.

A number of weeks ago the rav received a letter from the city’s main engineer, Roni Tubi, instructing him to contact the Israel Electric Company to have the electric meter of the Chabad Shul placed under the shul’s name as the city will no longer pay the shul’s electric bill [as it does for the other shuls] and if he does not act the electricity in the shul will simply be cut off.

In his response to the rabbi wrote “The mayor needs a cold glass of water to calm down, quickly…” The rav indicated the city does not pay the shul’s electric bill, hence the letter shows the wicked intentions of the city as well as its ignorance. Actually, the rav accuses the city of stealing electricity from the shul. Rabbi Druckman explains the city hooked up an electric line for a nearby public restroom to the shul’s meter.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)