RIA Novosti
Moscow – Russian and Israeli police plan to offer self-defense training courses to Russian rabbis after one was attacked late last month in Dagestan, a spokesman for the Russian Jewish Congress said Tuesday.
The idea endorsed by Israeli Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich, who pitched it to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, during a recent meeting in Moscow, the spokesman told RIA Novosti.
“Instructors … will teach [the rabbis] how to protect community buildings and how to act in case of an attack or other emergencies,” the spokesman said.
The courses will being in Moscow at an unspecified later date, the spokesman said. Prospective students will include rabbis, as well as youth group members, school and kindergarten teachers and regular members of Jewish communities nationwide.
The program follows an attack on a rabbi in the Dagestani city of Derbent in late July, the spokesman said. The victim was hospitalized in serious condition but survived the attack, which Russian police blamed on the local Islamic insurgency.
Russia, whose total population stood at 141 million in 2010, had about 156,000 people who identified themselves as Jews for that year’s nationwide census.
Israel has its own martial art, Krav Maga, initially developed in the 1930s by Jews who had to defend themselves against street attacks by fascists. The martial art is currently used by the Israeli army and security services.
It remained immediately unclear whether courses for Russian rabbis would teach Krav Maga or some other self-defense system.
And this should be the norm for all Jews, specially in CH.
Self defence from the bullet shot in the back? Are you kidding me?
has a lot of love and kindness on his face
may Hashem bentch him with many brochos
The same safety courses was giving to Rabbis from trouble places last year in Holy Land.
BS”D #3 I think you are the one who can’t think We are talking about the most dangerous city in Russia where he lives
nothing new under the sun…
Do you think things through? Every Rabbi has police protection. The police department doesn’t have time for that.
yes because self derfence will really help you if you get shot.
BS”D Good idea if it will stop a bullet.
How about if the police give the Rabbis and their families 24 hours protection