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Case of Rabbi /Rosh Yeshiva Ze'ev Kopolevitch back to table Rabbi faces indictment for sexually abusing students
by Tamar Hausman

(03/08/2000)
Jerusalem police yesterday recommended that Rabbi Ze'ev Sultanovich, a lecturer at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva who allegedly sexually abused a number of students between 1994 and 1996, be indicted.
Former yeshiva head indicted on sex charges JERUSALEM (JPS) -- Rabbi Ze'ev Kopolevitch, the former head of Jerusalem's Netiv Meir Yeshiva, was indicted on Thursday of last week on charges of forcing 19 of his pupils, many of them under 16, to engage in homosexual relations with him.
In all of the cases, Kopolevitch, 51, was accused of conducting "indecent acts without the consent of the student. The accused exploited the relationship of dependency inherent in the teacher-student relationship to put pressure on the student."

Yeshiva teacher accused of molesting students
(01/12/2000)
JERUSALEM (January 12) - Police three weeks ago launched an investigation into alleged sexual abuse by a teacher at Jerusalem's Mercaz Harav yeshiva 14 years ago.
Officials at the yeshiva, however, said the man under investigation never taught there, but was a student about 20 years ago and that he still comes there on occasion to pray.

Kopolevitch gets 3 1/2 years
by Tamar Hausman

(11/19/1999)
The Jerusalem District Court yesterday sentenced Rabbi Ze'ev Kopolevitch to three-and-a-half years in prison for sexually assaulting several students during his time as principal of Yeshivat Netiv Meir in Jerusalem.
Kopolevitch was convicted of violating a dozen students - nine under the age of 14 - between 1991 and 1997.

The unraveling kippa
by Naomi Ragen

(05/07/1999)
This week I read about the indictment of Rabbi Zeev Kopolevitch, once head of the most prestigious yeshiva high school in Israel, Netiv Meir. In 23 pages, over nineteen former students describe a series of shocking sexual abuses at the hands of Kopolevitch. But most shocking of all, was the fact that the most respected Rabbis of the National Religious Party, leader of B'nai Akiva yeshiva movement and Knesset member Rabbi Druckman, and former chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Avraham Shapira, had both allegedly been informed about the abuse and had chosen to do nothing, thus allowing it to continue.
May I Have a Word, Mr. Rubinstein?
by Naomi Ragen

(11/04/1999)

I am having difficulty understanding something about the Ministry you head, Mr. Rubinstein, and would really appreciate your help. It seems that in the last few weeks in at least two instances your Ministry seems to be working overtime to get sex offenders, pedophiles and rapists, as well as those who harbor and protect them, special light treatment under the law because they all happen to be rabbis.
First, there is the disgraceful case of the former headmaster Kopolevitch of Netiv Meir yeshiva high school who lived in a pedophile's heaven for the last fifteen years, abusing dozens, even hundreds of boys under his tutelage, boys whose complaints were apparently ignored by the Bnai Akiva yeshiva network's most respected spiritual leaders, Rabbi Druckman and Rabbi Shapira.

Ex-yeshiva head indicted for forcing pupils to have sex
by Dan Izenberg

(04/23/1999)
Rabbi Ze'ev Kopolevitch yesterday pleaded not guilty in the Jerusalem District Court to charges of having forced 19 students, many of them minors, to engage in homosexual relations with him.
Judges Ya'acov Zemach, Miriam Naor and Moussia Arad read out the indictment during yesterday's session, the first in the trial of the 51-year-old former head of Yeshivat Netiv Meir.




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