The assailants reportedly said that they knew they were attacking the chief rabbi.
By World Israel News staff
Argentina’s Chief Rabbi Gabriel Davidovich was assaulted in his home in the capital of Buenos Aires in the early hours of Monday morning and has been hospitalized with serious injuries, according to the AMIA Jewish community center.
AMIA issued a statement on Monday saying that Davidovich was “beaten and savagely attacked.” Unknown individuals broke into his home at 2 A.M., entering through the roof, and said to him that they knew he was the AMIA rabbi, according to media reports. Davidovich was reported to have suffered nine fractured ribs and a punctured lung and remains hospitalized.
He has served as Argentina’s chief rabbi since 2013.
AMIA described the attack as “alarming” and called on the authorities to quickly investigate the attack on Davidovich and his wife.
According to the media reports, Davidovich’s wife was tied up by the attackers, who then took money and belongings from the home before fleeing.
Police were investigating the crime as a robbery, said the La Nacion daily.
Argentina is home to some 200,000 Jews, most of them in Buenos Aires.
Top Israeli officials reacted to the attack. “We must not allow anti-Semitism to raise its head. I strongly condemn recent anti-Semitic incidents and call on the international community to act against it,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Today the leaders of the world in Europe, in South America, [and] all over are failing in their responsibility to learn the lessons of the past,” said Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett. “But unlike the past, today we have Israel, and every Jew around the world must know they have a home here; we are waiting,” he added.
Chairman of the Jewish Agency Isaac Herzog condemned the attack and said that “we must fight to the end the human garbage who’s source and motives are the hatred of Jew.” He vowed that the Jewish Agency would help lead the fight against global anti-Semitism.
据报道，袭击者说他们知道他们正在攻击首席拉比。
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据AMIA犹太社区中心称，阿根廷酋长拉比尔·达维多维奇于周一凌晨在布宜诺斯艾利斯首都的家中遭到殴打，并因严重受伤住院。
AMIA周一发表声明说，Davidovich遭到“殴打和野蛮袭击。”据媒体报道，不明身份者于凌晨2点闯入他家，从屋顶进入，并告诉他，他们知道他是AMIA拉比。据报道，Davidovich患有9例肋骨骨折和肺部穿刺，仍然住院治疗。
自2013年以来，他一直担任阿根廷首席拉比。
AMIA称袭击事件“令人担忧”，并呼吁当局迅速调查对Davidovich及其妻子的袭击事件。
据媒体报道，达维多维奇的妻子被袭击者绑起来，后者在逃离之前从家里拿走了钱和财物。
La Nacion日报称，警方正在调查该罪行是一起抢劫案。
阿根廷拥有约20万犹太人，其中大多数人在布宜诺斯艾利斯。
以色列高级官员对袭击作出了反应。 “我们绝不能让反犹太主义抬起头来。我强烈谴责最近发生的反犹太主义事件，并呼吁国际社会采取行动，“总理本雅明内塔尼亚胡说。
“今天，欧洲，南美洲，以及全世界的领导人都没有尽力承担过去的教训，”散居事务部长Naftali Bennett说。 “但不像过去，今天我们有以色列，世界上每个犹太人都必须知道他们在这里有一个家;我们在等，“他补充说。
犹太机构主席艾萨克·赫尔佐格谴责这次袭击，并说“我们必须最终战斗人类垃圾的来源和动机是对犹太人的仇恨。”他发誓说犹太人机构将帮助领导反对全球反犹太主义的斗争。