British Rabbi ‘beats up’ photojournalist
Jul 30, 2008
By Adam Mullett

KEEPING THE PEACE: Head of Israel Geophysics Ariehas Kleinas (above), who is in Lithuania to make sure that the excavations are going well, has had to deal with increasing tensions between visiting religous leaders and local media.
VILNIUS - The row over the plans to build luxury apartments at the Jewish Snipiskes cemetery got physical this week as police investigate allegations that a rabbi assaulted a news photographer at the site on July 24.
The rabbi reportedly knocked the photographer down, damaging his camera, after the photographer crossed a “stop line” at the edge of a dig at the Jewish cemetery in Snipiskes. An apartment building is thought to cover part of the burial grounds. Developers plan to build more ...
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