Rabbi Gedaliah Axelrod, the former head of the Rabbinical Court in Haifa, wrote in an open letter that the supporters of the government established with the help of the Joint List and the Ra'am party "expose the people of Israel to grave danger."
In the letter, he used the term "persecuting law" - a religious order concerning particularly dangerous violators, which grants the right to arrest them by any means, including taking their lives.
This term, which means "chasing law", became famous in Israeli political history after Shigal Amir, the murderer of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, claimed it as a religious justification for his crime.
In Crimes in November 1995.
The religious decree provoked a wave of criticism in Israel, which caused the Chabad-Lubavitch movement to distance itself from its statements, and former Israeli security and military officials, including two former Mossad and Shin Bet heads.
He called for the rabbi to be investigated on charges of incitement to murder.