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“Leading rabbis formulate document aimed at guiding decision-makers on future prisoner swaps . A group of leading Zionist-religious rabbis have drafted a document that for the first time presents clear guidelines for prisoner swaps. The guidelines in the document include the need to take future risk into consideration. Other principles include a call to engage in more moderate efforts in cases where abductees risk themselves needlessly, and a ban on releasing live detainees in exchange for bodies. The rabbis who signed the document include Shlomo Aviner, Yaakov Ariel, Haim Druckman, and Dov Lior. The guidelines state that previous swaps completed by Israel were characterized by the "absence of clear criteria" and by a "dangerous preference for the welfare of the individual captive (or casualty) over the public's wellbeing." The document includes a total of six brief clauses and is backed up with Jewish law sources for the various rulings. The rabbis begin with an uncompromising rule of thumb: "Despite the importance of the mitzvah of prisoner redemption, any deal for the exchange of terrorist prisoners must be weighed with the public's best interest in mind, as well as its effect on national security in the short and long term"………” Ynet (Yediot Ahronot) (Israel)
So, Iran and Saudi Arabia are not the only fundamentalists states in the Middle East.
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