A chief rabbi cited a passage in the Talmud to justify killing children if they are certain to grow up to be enemies.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
One unrated source (Israel Palestine News, 2024) reports that the chief rabbi of the Sephardic community reportedly cited a Talmudic text justifying killing an enemy when one can see from a child's perspective that he or she will grow up to be an enemy, in connection with a 1983 killing.
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… most militant, and they've been an embarrassment for Israel, except for now, because now these parties that are allied with Netanyahu, they're all settler parties. That is the most obnoxious, but when they killed kids, nothing was ever done about it, because the chief rabbi, I don't remember if it was the Eschonazi or the Sephardic one, said, Look, the Talmud says that we all know these kids are going to grow up to be enemies, and they even cited a passage saying you can kill kids if you're certain that that's the case, and that became mainstream for a while. I can't believe people are talking about the Talmud who never heard about it before, uh, because of that, of that thing. It's really hard. …
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Supports. Israel Palestine News reports that the chief rabbi of the Sephardic community reportedly cited a Talmudic text justifying killing an enemy when one can see from a child's perspective that he or she will grow up to be an enemy, in a 1983 case.[1]
Supports. A Scribd document quotes a settler rabbi permitting killing of children 'if it is clear they will grow up to harm us,' though it names Shapira rather than a chief rabbi and is unrated.[2]
Context. The 'reportedly' framing and the single unrated, advocacy-leaning source limit how firmly the citation can be established; no authoritative outlet has examined this specific attribution.[1]
Sources
2 sources: 2 not rated
- 1The Religious Extremism That Motivates Israeli Settler Expansion in the West Bank | Israel Palestine Newsisraelpalestinenews.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 203)_Disputed Talmud (30pp) | PDF | Gentile | Chabad - Scribdscribd.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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