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| By: Israel Insider staff |
| Published: August 23, 2007 |
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Shas Minister Izhak Cohen, chairman of the cabinet committee for burial affairs, called an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss a bill proposed by Shas Chairman Eli Yishai which calls for the outlawing of cremation, Haaretz reported.
"It will put an end to those who are implementing the final solution once again. Soon the Israeli people will be happily sprinkling the devil's ideological ashes outside the territorial waters of Israel."
Meanwhile, just yesterday a crematorium was burned down, in what police suspect was a case of arson by the Ultra-Orthodox. Jewish law prohibits the cremation of corpses.
ZAKA rescue and recovery service, who recently revealed the location of the crematorium, denied any connection to the fire. "We have been struggling with them for a long time," the organization's head, Yehuda Meshi Zahav, said. "They didn't have a license from the Health Ministry to operate, but the system did nothing despite the fact that the law permits burial only. When we discovered the site, Hibat Tzion residents told us that they had noticed a bad smell recently."
"I assume that after the release [of the photographs], there were people that couldn't ignore the desecration of the dead, and I applaud them," he continued. "We saw the desecration there. The structure is located between two chicken coops. There were sheets soaked in blood and the ashes thrown in the garbage bin. The place was destined to burn, and it was burned."
In response, Meretz Chair MK Yossi Beilin said that "Shas' leadership is pushing Israel to a dark age in which civilians won't even be able to decide what will happen to them after they die."
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