Debby Koren wrote for Israeli newspaper the Jerusalem Post on Sunday: “As I read with dismay about the violence in the city of Acre, it occurred to me that it would have been valuable for the country’s rabbinic leaders and halachic authorities to offer the halachic perspective (rather than a political or nationalist perspective) on what supposedly triggered the outbreak of violence: a gentile driving on Yom Kippur in an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood. Such a perspective would help the public, including our Knesset members, understand that the public condemnation by Arab leaders of the driver was an unnecessary demand, because the assumption that it is a provocation for a gentile to drive on Yom Kippur is not consistent with Jewish law.” (more…)