"A cut of meat is kosher. A piece of fish, savory foods, and all kinds of dang things are kosher, but a probation report is not kosher.

Full Quote- A cut of meat is kosher. A piece of fish, savory foods, and all kinds of dang things are kosher, but a probation report is not kosher. A probation report is merely a probation report.

another one from Haaretz

Kosher inspector jailed for 6 months for importing non-kosher meat
By Itim

The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on Sunday sentenced for six months in jail a kosher inspector convicted of assisting meat importers to smuggle and import non-kosher meat into Israel.

At the time of committing the offense Aharon Rabinowitz, 56, was a slaughterhouse inspector for the Chief Rabbinate and was in charge over the inspection of imported kosher meat. The court convicted him of stealing kosher certificates from the rabbinate and selling them to meat importers, thus allowing them to bring into Israel non-kosher meat and selling it as kosher meat.

The court ruled that in 1996 Rabinowitz allowed the importation of the uncertified meat as kosher and as having been slaughtered by butchers certified by the Chief Rabbinate in Israel. But the meat was actually imported without the required supervision, with fake and stolen certificates used by importers to bring into Israel large quantities of meat.

The charge sheet stated that only two stolen certificates were seized in the investigation, which Rabinowitz sold for $10,000 to a meat importer. The prosecution could not establish how Rabinowitz used other stolen certificates.

Judge Eilata Ziskind ruled "the severity of the offenses extends beyond the financial issue when the Chief Rabbinate is the body responsible in Israel for the issuance of kosher certificates and when the majority of the public relies on these certificates."

"The defendant, as a Chief Rabinnate employee and a rabbi, who was expected to be most attentive to these sensitive issues, betrayed the principles and essence of his position and committed the severe offenses of which he was convicted," the judge said.

Despite the fact Rabinowitz committed the offenses ten years ago and was fired from his job without compensation, the court insisted that "committing fraud, breach of trust and stealing documents for money, require in the name of the public's interests a deterring punitive measure - a jail sentence - which is the appropriate punishment for the severe offenses, due to the harsh blow to the public."

Judge Ziskind sentenced Rabinowitz to six months in prison, to be converted to public service and imposed a NIS 30,000 fine.

He got off too easy. ONLY 6 months. Guess his real judgement will come from the judge of Judges who wasn't appointed

J.

Quote from City Hall (1996)



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