[Avodah] "I have an opportunity to kill the terrorist..."

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

Anyone want to try this one, with meqoros?

RSE raises two issues: killing a neutralized terrorist, and (I guess)
dina demalkhusa on the topic.

Chag Kasher veSameaich (belashon "lo zu af zu"),
-micha


The Jewish Press
Tzfat Chief Rabbi Was Asked in Real Time whether to Kill
Ramming Terrorist
By David Israel -- 11 Nisan 5777 -- April 7, 2017
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/tzfat-chief-rabbi-was-asked-in-real-time-whether-to-kill-ramming-terrorist/2017/04/07/

Chief Rabbi of Tzfat Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, who is not known for
particularly leftwing sympathies (he encourages his flock to refuse Arab
renters, for instance), on Thursday night told a class he was teaching
that one of his students had phoned him from the scene of the ramming
attack that killed an IDF soldier. The student posed a halachic inquiry:

"He told me, I see my buddy here lying down dead," Rabbi Eliyahu recalled,
adding that his student had asked, "I have an opportunity to kill the
terrorist - should I kill him or not?" Advertisement

Around 10 AM, Thursday, an Arab terrorist rammed his vehicle into two
IDF soldiers waiting at a hitchhiking post on Rt. 60, outside Ofra in
Judea and Samaria. Sgt. Elhai Teharlev HY"D, 20, was killed, and the
other soldier was injured. The terrorist was arrested by security forces.

Rabbi Eliyahu said that his response was that "this terrorist deserves
to die. However, unfortunately, the laws in this country are not well
constructed, and so there is no legal way to do to him what needs to
be done."

"I told him that had he been able to do it while the attack was on it
would have been possible, but we were after the event, unfortunately."
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