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he Gil Kopatch Affair isn't Mr. Kopatch's bolder remarks
were replayed on radio during
over.
Last Friday, Yated the week. Mr. Kopatch, referring
Ne'eman ("Sturdy Pillar"), to a Torah passage in which
a weekly religious newspaper, Noah was naked at a celebra-
published a column that tion, deduced that Noah actual-
ridiculed Yitzhak Rabin as a ly "liked to dance with his
drunk and a murderer. "Who- boolbool [slang for penis] hang-
ing out."
ever is angered by this
Israeli
In response, the reli-
should know that he does comedian Gil
gious Shas party threat-
not have sole rights to Mr.
Kopatch
Rabin's legacy. As long as appears on ened to bring down the
Israel
government coalition un-
Gil Kopatch and others of
his ilk continue to dissem- Television less Mr. Kopatch's spot was
inate interpretations of Channel 1. taken off the show `Wrap-
ping Up the Week with
what they maliciously call
the 'legacy of the Torah,' with- Yair Lapid," which is broadcast
out regard for our sensitivities, on state-run Israel Television.
we will disseminate interpreta- Haredi politicians called Mr.
tions of Rabin's legacy without Kopatch a "wicked clown," and
regard for their sensitivities," accused him of "defiling the
Torah" and insulting the entire
the columnist wrote.
Knesset Member Moshe religious public.
The Knesset Education Corn-
Gafni of the religious Degel Ha-
torah party, which publishes mittee even called a session on
Yated Ne'eman, said that unless the matter.
Mr. Kopatch, 27, wearing his
Mr. Kopatch ceased and desist-
ed, such articles would be 'just trademark army surplus cap
the beginning" of a counterrat- and coat (but not his Mr. Magoo
tack against "all that is holy to glasses, which he puts on to read
from the Torah on TV) appeared
the secularists."
So who is Gil Kopatch and before the committee and de-
why is he the center of Israel's clared: "I am a Jew, a believing
newest struggle between secu- Jew. It is precisely out of love for
the Torah that I try to reach out
lar and religious Jews?
The comedian's wrangle with my hand and heal the terrible
the haredi, or Orthodox estab- rift between the religious and
lishment (meaning those whose secular."
Mr. Kopatch, who says he
men characteristically wear
black kippot and white shirts studies Torah, attends syna-
with black suits) was the most gogue weekly and keeps kosher,
talked-about story. in Israel last insisted that he was merely com-
menting on the text "in the lan-
week.
It began when Mr. Kopatch, guage of my audience," and that
who delivers an irreverent, all Jews, secular and religious,
slangy, occasionally off-color had the right to try to under-
commentary on the weekly stand it for themselves.
He bantered with the hare
Torah portion for a popular Fri-
day night TV variety show, was im on the committee, especially
his chief nemesis, Shas Knesset
found out by the haredim.
As a rule the haredim don't Member Shlomo Benizri. Mr.
watch television, and certainly Benizri laughed along wit