Top Zionist rabbi slams 'blood libel' accusing him of sex crimes

Ha'aretz
Dozens of supporters gathered Tuesday morning at the home of Rabbi Mordechai Elon, a prominent member of the religious Zionist circles now being accused of inappropriate sexual behavior.

It was a senior forum of rabbis that shook up the sector a day before by accusing Elon of the acts. One of the rabbis in the forum said it published the statement "to protect people over whom Rabbi Elon has authority."

The forum, Takana, devotes itself to preventing sexual harassment by authority figures.

.........According to the forum, following the complaints, about three years ago the rabbis demanded that Elon cease all educational activities and prohibited him from counseling privately....
The forum wrote that it had "recently become aware that the limitations have been only partially applied" and they therefore felt obliged to go public...

Elon called the matter a "terrible blood libel, a complaint without foundation," by a "person whose stability is doubtful."

Elon, 50, is the son of former Supreme Court vice-president Prof. Menachem Elon, the brother of former MK Benny Elon and of Be'er Sheva District Court Judge Joseph Elon, and once hosted a weekly television program on the Torah portion.....

National Union chairman MK Yaakov Katz called the revelation "an earthquake like the one in Haiti." Full story