Sex Scandal Leads To Star Israeli Rabbi's Fall
The conviction of Rabbi Motti Elon for sex offenses has generated a profound crisis of confidence from which the nationalist-religious community will find it hard to recover.
![An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man stands near a display of pictures of Rabbis and religious leaders for sale outside a shop in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man stands near a display of pictures of Rabbis and religious leaders for sale outside a shop in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood June 4, 2013. Often living in de-facto ghettos of their own making, the majority of Haredi men are allowed to shun the army and dedicate their life to religious study, living off donations, state benefits and the often meagre wages of wives. In a country where most 18-year-old Jewish men and women are conscripted such treatment is causing growing res](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2013/08/RTX10DE2.jpg/RTX10DE2.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=pJqv_RKu)
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