Is Netanyahu’s Likud Planning to Assassinate Gadi Eisenkot?!

Posted on November 13, 2026 by State of the Nation

Rabbi Gedalia Axelrod.
(photo credit: ChabadInfo via MK Michal Rozin/X)
ByASHER SMITH, YOAV ETIEL
NOVEMBER 13, 2026 02:47
Updated: NOVEMBER 13, 2026 10:20

The Chabad-Lubavitch Hassidic movement in Israel distanced itself from Rabbi Gedalia Axelrod, a former head of the Haifa Rabbinical Court, on Thursday after he issued a handwritten letter with a halachic ruling invoking a religious doctrine that permits using lethal force against Jewish party leaders who cooperate with Arab parties.

In his letter, Axelrod argued that Jewish politicians who cooperate with the Arab parties were subject to the principle of “din rodef.” The term was invoked by Yigal Amir to justify the 1995 assassination of then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. In the period before the killing, extremist rabbis had argued that Rabin’s pursuit of the Oslo Accords endangered Jewish lives.

Axelrod later told Walla that he did not regret writing the letter. “The Torah obliges me; I knew it was not easy, but if the Torah obliges, then we go, we are Jews, we make sacrifices,” he said.

The rabbi clarified that he acted on his own initiative, not on behalf of Chabad, saying, “I act on my own behalf, that’s all.”

When asked if such a ruling could cause hatred, he said: “If I see that the Torah binds me, the Torah determines.” In response to the fact that many Jews see the Torah differently, he replied: “So there are all kinds of opinions; even in the Gemara there are many disagreements. Even in everyday life there are opinions, one says this, one says that.”

Joint List leader Yousef Jabareen and faction chairman Ahmad Tibi attend a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, November 10, 2026.Joint List leader Yousef Jabareen and faction chairman Ahmad Tibi attend a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, November 10, 2026. (credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)

Axelrod’s handwritten letter asserted that collaborating with the Arab parties in Israel “poses a terrible danger to the people of Israel in the Holy Land and around the world.” Axelrod argued that such collaboration could look like inviting Arab parties to join a governing coalition or relying on their support from outside it.

In response, a group of former heads of Israel’s security services and military called on police to investigate Axelrod on suspicion of incitement to murder. In a letter to Assistant-Chief Boaz Balet, head of the police Investigations and Intelligence Division, they urged authorities to summon the rabbi for questioning, warning that Israel could otherwise “witness another political assassination.”

Axelrod does not play a role in Chabad leadership, spokesperson says

When asked whether Axelrod’s ruling represented Chabad’s position, Rabbi Shimi Segal, the movement’s spokesman in Israel, told Haaretz that its rabbinical court determined its official religious rulings exclusively.

“Rabbi Axelrod is not a member of this court and does not fill a function in the leadership of Chabad. His words and letters reflect his own personal opinion,” Segal said.

MK Ofer Cassif, the only Jewish member in Ra’am, separately called on State Prosecutor Amit Isman to open a criminal investigation into Axelrod, saying, “We are right now in a very sensitive period of leadership change following the election,” he wrote.

“It is clearly incumbent upon the law enforcement authorities to operate with particular vigilance during this period against anyone who threatens, incites or legitimizes killing elected officials for exercising the public mandate given to them.”

Yair Golan, leader of the Democrats, had expressed support for including Arab parties in a government, while Gadi Eisenkot, who was tasked with forming the next government, had said he would invite parties that met certain conditions to join his coalition.

Ra’am, led by Mansour Abbas, previously joined the 2021-2022 government of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid. Both Ra’am and the Joint List had recommended Eisenkot to form the next government.
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