Police on Wednesday arrested a 36-year-old man suspected of making threats on the life of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, after he allegedly asked former chief rabbi and current Shas party spiritual leader Yitzhak Yosef for halachic approval to kill her.

According to Hebrew media reports, Yosef told Religious Affairs Ministry Director-General Yehuda Avidan that a man had approached him with a request to issue a din rodef against Baharav-Miara — a religious decree applied to grave offenders giving halachic approval to stop them by any means, even if this requires killing them.

Avidan then contacted Jerusalem police regarding the matter, leading to the suspect’s arrest.

In a letter to Police Commissioner Daniel Levy cited by Hebrew media, he cautioned that Yosef’s office “warned about a threat that seems concrete and could endanger the attorney........

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