In Memory of Yochanan Spielberg, 9 September 2025, 16 Elul 5785.
Blood Libel - Israeli Knesset.
On July 27, 2025, there was a hearing in the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) concerning alleged ritual sexual abuse.
The testimonies given are almost exactly the same as those related more than 10 years ago.
See:
JN-999.
Jerusalem News.
2 July 2012, 12 Tammuz 5712
https://www.britam.org/JN3/JN999.html#j3
Yochanan Spielberg Murdered in Nachlaot. Bible Codes Expert Killed and Besmirched.
Extracts:
# The Police claim they invested more time and energy in examining the case than they ever have before in similar instances.
In the end they found three men whose activity is subject to further investigation and possibly nine cases of transgression. [All the suspects were released shortly after their arrest!]. I say possibly since it is also now being said that there may not ever have been anything at all! Certain social workers and parents may have somehow unconsciously guided the children into giving false testimony. No medical confirmation was ever received, to our knowledge, as far as has been published.
Anyone in Nachlaot who lived alone became suspect. Some felt obliged to leave the neighborhood.
Yochanan may have been a victim of false accusation. #
# We feel that,
Yochanan Spielberg
has also been falsely accused and brutally murdered.
# Normally we would not write about it but nobody else is doing so.
Also he did have some connection to us even though it was not a strong one.
He also made a contribution with his Codes Program to Torah Study and research. #
Following the above article, a friend of Yochanan, Menachem, asked the Conspiracy Researcher Barry Chamish, to research the matter.
Chamish put out a posting concerning it.
More than that we do not know and Chamish has passed away.
Other articles at the time (before and after) spoke of the allegations by the 2 or 3 female parents concerned. The Police emphasized they had intensively investigated the matter and had found nothing.
Sexual Abuse does take place.
It should perhaps be dealt with much more zealously than it is.
In Western Countries only about one in four (or even one in ten) crimes of rape are actually reported.
On the other hand more than 20% of the complaints are mistaken or false. This means that MOST complaints are justified but many are not.
There are millions of Religious Jews today and 100s of thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews many of whom are rabbis and full-time scholars.
A relatively few of them have committed sexual crimes that have received great media coverage. People are interested. The alleged crimes in most (but not all) cases took place.
Relatively speaking in light of the World -Wide libertarian New Age atmosphere the Ultra-Orthodox cases are quite few in number.
Among some segments of the Jewish and non-Jewish Secular communities what should be consider homosexual assault and general physical molesting is disregarded and even encouraged. If a religious Jew however is involved than that is different, and so (perhaps) it should be.
At all events,
Why do we think that the present ruckus is suspicious?
One of the Knesset personalties involved at present is closely associated with the Reform Movement who in some cases would be only too glad to spread calumnies against the Hareidim..
The reports are almost identical in formulation to those in the case of Spielberg and may be by the same people.
Anti-Semites throughout the Ages have made false reports against the Jews throughout the Ages. The reports were often similar to those now being circulated.
The reports are anti-intuitive. Some Jews may have misdirected lusts but they are nearly always physical ones. They do not make ceremonies of them.
Other groups with money, respectability, and influence have agendas to besmirch Religious Jews in this way.
For instance:
QAnon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon
# QAnon is described as antisemitic or rooted in antisemitic tropes, due to its fixation on Jewish financier George Soros and conspiracy theories about the Rothschild family, a frequent target of antisemites. #
# QAnon's conspiracy theories have also been relayed by Russian and Chinese state-backed media, social media troll accounts,and the far-right Falun Gong associated Epoch Media Group. #
In other words the anti-Conspiracy people may themselves consciously or not be stooges of a Conspiracy!
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Sources:
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Survivors Testify to Knesset About Childhood Sexual Abuse Network in Israeli Religious Ceremonies
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-04/ty-article/.premium/survivors-testify-to-knesset-about-childhood-sexual-abuse-network-in-religious-ceremonies/00000197-3bca-da41-a9f7-3fceaa010000
The women described years of abuse, including rape and torture, masked as spiritual rituals, as well as systemic silencing and neglect from authorities. As the Knesset members listened to the survivors' testimony, a number appeared visibly shaken
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Survivors testify: MKs participated in sadistic sexual 'rituals' involving minors
�Doctors, educators, police officers, and past and present members of the Knesset were involved in these abuses,� survivor says.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-856407
Several women on Tuesday testified in the Knesset about sexual abuse they suffered as minors as part of religious ritual ceremonies.
The testimonies came during a joint meeting of the Knesset�s Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality, chaired by MK Pnina Tameno-Shete (National Unity), and the Special Committee on Young Israelis, chaired by MK Naama Lazimi (The Democrats).
The joint meeting was organized in the wake of an investigative report published on April 2 by Israel Hayom journalist Noam Barkan.
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Horrifying testimonies seek to lift shroud of silence around ritual sex abuse claims
https://www.timesofisrael.com/horrifying-testimonies-seek-to-lift-shroud-of-silence-around-ritual-sex-abuse-claims/
daily-edition-2025-08-25
Survivors tell Knesset lawmakers of organized assaults on children by those claiming mantle of religion, alleging longstanding phenomenon made worse by official indifference
By Ariela Karmel
The July 27 hearing included testimony from alleged victims, now adults, regarding abuse they had experienced as children, primarily in the ultra-Orthodox and national-religious communities in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Haifa, Safed and elsewhere.
Accusers recounted tales of gruesome sexual abuse they experienced as children, usually by groups of people, involving ritualistic, religious rhetoric and iconography. The abuse took place in schools, synagogues, private homes, warehouses, cemeteries and forests, they alleged.
Several women alleged that religious and community leaders had participated in the abuse. One woman named Yael Ariel testified that she had heard accounts from several women alleging that �doctors, educators, police officers, and both former and current Knesset members� took part.
Others who recounted their experiences requested anonymity to speak openly about the ghastly tortures they underwent.
�I was around 15, tied to a torture bed in basements in the Tel Aviv area,� said one women, recalling an incident in which her abusers � including family members � slaughtered a snake, mixed its blood with hers and drank it, while raping her and calling her a �holy vessel.�
�They tied me up in every possible way, using whips and electric shocks, raping me,� said another survivor, who testified that she was 5 years old when she began suffering �unbearable abuse,� including by religious leaders and educators who told her that she was �defective� and needed to be �fixed.�
Another accuser said that her father and others abused and trafficked her as a child in �sadistic networks involving rituals,� allegedly including well-known figures, including politicians.
Several victims noted that many of the incidents were filmed on cameras or phones.
�It�s hard to explain what happens there,� she said. �There are children, cameras, blood, and death.�
Little understood by cops
A focus of the two hearings, and an earlier meeting in June on the same subject, was the alleged failure to protect children. Accusers charged that authorities, including educators, social workers, and police, were alerted to crimes being committed but took no action.
Prosecutors are accused of having dismissed cases as not worth their time, and, in some instances, community leaders themselves are alleged to have taken part in the abuse.
�The police received material about this a year ago, and said they would investigate, but they didn�t,� said Orit Sulitzeanu, the executive director of the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel, who has been working with victims of organized ritual sexual abuse for over a year to bring their claims to light.