Suspect Nissim Aharon Poses As Rabbi To Rape Women: Israeli Police

A former Israeli security official, Nissim Aharon, stands accused by police of posing as a rabbi in order to sexually assault and defraud women, Haaretz reports.

Police believe that over the course of 15 years, Nissim Aharon would call women in distress and encourage them to seek help by speaking to a well-known rabbi he said he knew in Jerusalem. Aharon would then allegedly call the women a few days later from a different phone number pretending to be the rabbi. According to police, he would invite the women to meet with him, promising that by returning to religious observance and studying with him their personal problems would be solved. It was during these meetings that police suspect Aharon, posing as a "holy man" would sexually assault his victims.

With Aharon's name and game revealed, police hope that many more women will now come forward to tell their own story of being tricked and assaulted, according to Haaretz.

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Comments

[Samlas]

Who knows about authenticity these days. Its really scary you cannot trust religious leaders anymore. Did you hear about the New Jersey Rabbis that were arrested because they were involved in money laundering and selling human Kidneys??? So whether they are real Rabbis or Fake ones it doesn't matter, just don't trust them.

[LMPE]

The idea is that he believes that it's OK for a religious figure to commit rape. See why theocracies are dangerous?

[JavaSavant]

Wow. I've seen people not bother to read an article before posting, but not bothering to read the headline is a first.

This wasn't a Rabbi. This is someone who POSED as a Rabbi.

[lokipuck]

True, but the problem with your comments is that this guy was not actually a rabbi!

[NoFooling]

Women and children have been assaulted and raped by clergy throughout history, whether Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, Baptist, and who knows about Hindu & Muslim clerics.

It's a problem that's entirely due to the political structure of the churches not rigorously vetting and qualifying and tracking the performance of the men whom they place in positions that inherently afford great emotional power over the population that the churches themselves have indoctrinated to trust their (male) leaders disproportionately.

[duxguts]

You mean that religions should vet and track the performance of people they send out to spread fairy tales.

[LiberalLee]

Oh dull. Another 'holy man' using a postion of authority to gain, and then abuse someone's trust.
Yawn, yawn. It goes on all over the world and always has and always will.
Organized religion sux, no matter how you serve it up, and what flavor you prefer.

[admarx]

Is the headline too long to read? Wow...

[george389]

how can you possibly blame this on organized religion?