Mercaz Harav yeshiva tells Olmert he's not welcome to visit

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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was told on Sunday that he is not welcome to visit the Mercaz Harav religious school in Jerusalem, where eight students were killed Thursday when a Palestinian gunman opened fire on a crowded library.

The yeshiva informed Olmert of its decision in response to the prime minister's request to visit the school in the wake of the attack.

In its message, the yeshiva said its decision was not final, but emphasized that their wish was "to save him and us the embarrassment." The Prime Minister's Office on Sunday night denied that Olmert had been told not to visit, according to Army Radio. The PMO told the radio that the yeshiva had actually contacted the prime minister to invite him.

Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi visited the yeshiva on Sunday night, where he met with the heads of institution and with the student who stopped the terrorist from continuing his fire.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/962317.html

[Tom Joad]

1. one of the most famous graduates of this school is Yigal Amir, the killer of

Rabin. So i suppose it would be wise of Olmert to stay away.

[Lithos]

2. Yigal Amir attended a different yeshiva

Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh

[subsuelo]

6. That one another narrow-minded far-right school?

[oberliner]

3. What is your source for that information?

Where did you read/hear that Yigal Amir was a graduate of Mercaz Harav?

[henank]

4. He has no source

Because it is a lie.

[ProgressiveMuslim]

5. Quite interesting how this religious school treats Israel's elected

officials.

[MaryCeleste]

7. Would you want Bush on the campus where you or your children attend?

[Violet_Crumble]

8. Surely yr not trying to argue the yeshiva is liberal and opposed to Bush? n/t

[MaryCeleste]

9. No, the Yeshiva is convservative and they consider Olmert at best too soft on terrorists

[Violet_Crumble]

10. I think conservative is an understatement...

More like whackadoodle religious fanatics. These are the folk that physically attacked Tzipi Livni when she went there...