The chief rabbi of the Israeli town of Safed was listed in moderate to serious condition after an apparently deliberate hit-and-run attack. Safed police detained a city resident, Meir Baranes, for allegedly trying to run over Rabbi Levy Bistrizky, a leading figure in the Lubavitch movement.
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