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Haredi cult rabbi remanded over cold case murders and kidnapping

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Published: 5 November 2021

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Suspect said to confess to unsolved 1986 murder after meeting Hasidic cult Rabbi Eliezer Berland

Suspect said to confess to unsolved 1986 murder after meeting Hasidic cult rabbi (Times of Israel)
Member of Eliezer Berland’s Shuvu Bonim sect reportedly told police that he and others took 17-year-old Nissim Shitrit to a forest near Jerusalem and beat him to death

Berland remanded over Hasidic cult cold case murders: ‘He implicated himself’ (Times of Israel)
Convicted sex offender and fraudster briefly collapses in court; detention extended for 9 days for questioning over cold case murder of man, suspected murder of missing teen

Photo: Rabbi Eliezer Berland arrives for a court hearing in Jerusalem, November 2 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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