Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇲🇽In December, prominent children’s author and rabbi Chaim Walder killed himself after the Haaretz newspaper published a story accusing him of sexually assaulting nearly two dozen people, including children — allegations he had denied.
Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, founder of the Zaka emergency response organization and winner of the Israel Prize — the country’s highest public honor — had sexually assaulted boys, girls and women. Meshi-Zahav, who denounced the claims as “lies”, also tried to hang himself in April before new allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced...
“Today we receive about 500 calls a month,” said Paris — evidence the #MeToo movement was impacting Israel’s religious communities.
