An Israel Police representative said during a court hearing on Wednesday that Eliezer Berland, the disgraced leader of the Shuvu Banim community, was the one who gave the orders to the kidnappers and murderers in two murder cases from over 30 years ago, but was not present himself when the acts took place, Kan News reported on Wednesday.
The police said that there is evidence that there was premeditated intent to commit the murders but the prosecution must evaluate whether there is sufficient evidentiary basis to file an indictment – and that will be done next week.
A Kan report on Tuesday night said that Berland sent messages to his followers in recent days indicating he is aware he will be charged in the cases and may serve a long prison sentence.
“I understand the story is over,” Berland said in a message he sent from prison, where he is serving a five-month sentence for fraud, exploitation, attempted intimidation, tax offenses, and money laundering. “Many people testified against me and the investigators told me that there is evidence against me.”
“I hope that the truth emerges. I want my suffering in jail to end.”
It was also reported on Tuesday night that the police believe that there is little hope of finding the remains of Nissim Shitrit, z’l, but meanwhile, they are continuing the search.
Channel 13 News reported on Monday that another suspect of alleged involvement in the kidnapping and murder of Shitrit admitted to his role in the case.
Last week, one of the main suspects of Shitrit’s murder confessed his role in the case and incriminated three others, providing a detailed description of the events that day that led to Shitrit’s murder. A female suspect has also confessed to playing a role in Shitrit’s kidnapping and one suspect signed a state witness agreement.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Isn’t it about time this madman was locked away for ever? And that some cultbusters start working on his brainwashed followers?
Berland – yimach shemo vezichro. He should suffer greatly.
עבודה זרה גילוי עריות שפיכת דמים
אין שליח לדבר עבירה hence absolutely nothing can be done to Rabbi Eliezer Berland
Wasn’t there an alleged letter circulating last year, signed by alleged Rabbonim, stating that Mr. Breland was a heiligeh Yid and we must treat him with the utmost derech eretz?!
NGI: Are you assuming the reports or accusations are true?
A madman doesn’t harm/murder others. A madman harms himself! This is a self-centered, egotistical maniac.
A heiligeh Yid doesn’t behave like this vicious monster who thinks only of himself! He should rot in his own hell on this earth.
their is a proliferation of baalei tshuvah who declare themselves raabonim and lead cults they have zero mesoarh and no moreh derech
Dear fellow Yidden. I am shocked and frankly disgusted at you people. @ac23 – how dare you, I am not a bresolver but how dare you talk so terribly about another Yid. This man has learnt more Torah and done more Mitzvas then you can even imagine. Just like you wouldnt wish pain on Reb Chaim Kanievsky you have no right to even talk about gedolim like Reb Berland. You are assuming that some reports from anti-semitic media sites are true and based on that you are running around spewing loshon hora about gedolim. When you go to shmoyim and Hakodosh Boruch Hu asks you how could you say about one of the biggest avodim of Hashem that he should ‘suffer greatly’ what will you say? There is a special place in Gehenom for people like you. People who mock, terrorize, insult and curse Tzadikim. You better do some serious teshuva my friend because you will really regret what you have just done.
Clearly this is the greatest Chillul Hashem imaginable. This is the final positive proof that all of the leaders of Ukrainian Jewry were correct in banishing Breslov from their midst. Instead, we said live and let live and it’s better than nothing. It is much worse than nothing. This person was the biggest “leader” in Breslov. Look at the mess he has created.
Breslov is a cult that claims to be lead from beyond the grave. Nothing can be more antithetical to Yiddishkeit than believing in a person who is dead. Keep your children far away from this dangerous cult. It looks cute in the beginning, but it is a sewer in the end. Hashem Yirachem.