Amar refuses to answer key questions.
Israel’s chief Sephardic rabbi said today he feels “true anguish” for an ultra-Orthodox teen who was abducted and beaten after striking up a relationship with the cleric’s daughter, but pinned the blame for the growing scandal on his wayward son.
Rabbi Shlomo Amar was questioned by police today, Israel Radio said.
The rabbi’s son, Meir, 31, who abandoned his family’s strict Orthodox lifestyle years ago, is considered by police to be the prime suspect.
The rabbi did not address the key question of whether he was aware of the assault when it happened.
The 17-year-old youth has said his assailants subjected him to hours of abuse, beating him and cutting off his sidelocks, in order to force him to sever ties with the rabbi’s 18-year-old daughter, Ayala. The two teens had met through an internet chat room. Contact between unmarried men and women is frowned upon in the ultra-Orthodox world.
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