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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