Attorney Yair Nehorai is legal counsel for the group Rabbis for Human Rights. Together with the Israeli Alliance headed by Shai Cohen, he has raised about 60,000 shekels ($16,000) in a crowdfunding campaign to petition the Supreme Court to stop the state from funding the Bnei David Military Preparatory Academy in the settlement of Eli in the West Bank. They still have about a month and a half left to reach their goal of 200,000 shekels ($54,000). Their plan is to appear before the Supreme Court with thousands of testimonies, video clips and documents proving that the school poses a threat to Israeli democracy and that it plans to take over the Israel Defense Forces “as a springboard to the heart of Israeli society, in a process that would lead to a religious revolution and the establishment of a Jewish theocracy in all the Land of Israel. This is their messianic vision.”
The military preparatory academy in Eli was founded in 1988 by two rabbis, Eli Sadan and Yigal Levenstein. Two years ago, Sadan was awarded the Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement by Education Minister Naftali Bennett, the chair of HaBayit HaYehudi.
