- Q. See question above: The figures above include the bodies of 57 who were recovered after dying in captivity or during rescue attempts.
Is it correct to exchange the hardened convicted terrorists and murderers, likely to continue with their crimes just for the bodies of the kedoshim murdered?
A. Although in the above question the exchange was the correct thing to do, since real lives were being saved.
On this case, when only retrieving the bodies of the already sacrificed Kedoshim is involved, Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that reintroducing hardened, often more radicalized terrorists back into this already volatile and dangerous region, the worry that every released terrorist is a future bomb and a real true menace for the living overcomes and they should not be exchanged and released.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a
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