Rabbi Elyakim Levanon, one of the top settlement rabbis, has urged his followers and others not to travel to Nablus after a young ultra-Orthodox Jew and father of four was killed when he and his colleagues tried to run a Palestinian checkpoint after visiting the alleged burial place of Joseph.
Ben-Yosef Livnat, a nephew of the Likud Minister Limor Livnat, was killed after he and his group failed to liaise their visit with the Israeli Army and the PA. He and his colleagues were in three cars when they tried to run the checkpoint. According to an Israeli Army report, the Palestinian police officers fired warning shots into the air before opening fire at the speeding vehicles.
This is a tragedy born of the fact that some people think it is beneath them to stop at checkpoints and Rabbi Levanon is correct to warn others of travelling to the West Bank city. It is most unfortunate that people's minds have been poisoned into thinking they are invincible and that the law doesn't apply to them.