An Israeli military rabbi received death threats after helping evacuate a West Bank settlement outpost.Military sources said Tuesday that two bodyguards had been assigned to Lt. Col. Yehuda Vizner, chief rabbi of the Army Central Command. The concern is that he could come under attack from right-wing extremists once Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan to “disengage” from the Palestinians by removing all settlements from the Gaza Strip and four in the West Bank gets under way. A few months ago, Vizner was roughed up by Jewish vigilantes in Jerusalem in what authorities saw as a reprisal for his participation in the removal of an illegal outpost. He has since received several anonymous death threats, sources said.
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