After the terrible incident at the airport in Rabat Ammon, during which they cut the tefillin strips of Rabbi Moshe Haliva from Dubai, Israel will seek clarification from Jordan regarding the shocking incident. In an interview, the rabbi recounts the shocking moment “the security inspectors cut the leather strips of the tefillin in front of my eyes” | watch
After the security inspection people in Jordan cut off the tefillin strips of a rabbi from Dubai. Israel will seek clarification from Jordan about the incident that happened at the airport in Rabat Ammon. The Jordanians cut the strips of skin in the tefillin of Rabbi Moshe Haliva, rabbi of the ‘Or David’ congregation in Dubai, as reported by Roy Kays in ‘Khan Haudas’.
Rabbi Haliva said in an interview: “After they asked me to show how to place tefillin, the security inspectors cut the leather strips of the tefillin in front of my eyes.” As I recall, the anti-Semitic security personnel at the international airport in Amman, the capital of Jordan, cut off the tefillin strips worn by Rabbi Moshe Haliva, rabbi of the Sephardic community in Dubai. The rabbi was on a connecting flight from Israel to Abu Dhabi, via Amman.
When he landed yesterday (Tuesday) at the Jordanian airport, the Jordanians confiscated the tefillin, during the security checks and after about an hour and a half of arguments, and despite the rabbi’s pleas that it was a holy object, they cut the tefillin strips in front of his eyes and returned the houses to him.
“I felt uncomfortable, I cried. I begged, I explained to them that it was a sacred thing,” Rabbi Eichner told Eichner, adding, “They told me that if it was in a suitcase that went into the belly of the plane, it would be fine, but I’m not allowed to take it in my hand bag on the plane because it’s like a shame and that Dangerous. One of them gestured with his hand that I might strangle someone.”
The rabbi said: “I said that I fly all over the world. There are thousands of Jews who fly around the world and have never used a holy thing to strangle someone. I explained to them that it costs a lot of money and it is a holy thing. I said that I would return to Tel Aviv with the tefillin,” but nothing helped.