Headless Fish Sent to Lubavitcher

By COLlive reporter

‘Everything goes” in the current municipal election season in Israel. Even a dead fish.

Chaim Steiner, the Lubavitcher who serves as Deputy Mayor of the Southern Israeli city of Kiryat Malachi, has filed a police complaint for what he perceived as a possible threat to his life.

Steiner’s wife was in the backyard of their home in the Nachlas Har Chabad neighborhood when she discovered a dead fish with its head cut off.

“I don’t know who would want to conspire against me or threaten me,” he said, while people close to him noted that he has yet to endorse a mayoral candidate.

“We are not afraid,” added Steiner, who represents the local Chabad community in the city council and heads the Maaminim party. “No one can threaten us. We will continue on with the unity we have created until we reach our goals successfully.”

He remained adamant not to make an endorsement without instructions of Rabbi Yitzchok Yehuda Yaroslavsky and the neighborhood leadership.

An infamous incident involving a dead fish was when Rahm Emanuel, Mayor of Chicago and former White House Chief of Staff, sent a 2 1/2 foot decomposing fish in the mail to a pollster who was late delivering work.