[Biggins]

Residents of Tel Aviv’s quiet Hatikva neighbourhood were shocked yesterday to discover a self-styled Jewish sage living in their midst with a harem of 30 women kept as “slaves” in squalid apartments.
Goel Ratzon, 60, is accused of fathering 37 children since 1993 with his “wives” and daughters. Mr Ratzon, who was dubbed by the local media as “Israel’s Josef Fritzl”, is under arrest on suspicion of incest and sexual abuse.
“The evidence shows the suspect controlled his women with a firm hand, including their possessions and their money,” police said. Mr Ratzon even wrote a list of commandments to ensure that the women were kept in “conditions similar to slavery”, police said.
In addition to turning over all their wages, the women were forbidden from making telephone calls or talking to men other than Mr Ratzon. If they broke the rules they would pay a fine or receive physical punishment.

Ratzon's rules
1 No women shall marry nor shall any woman attack another, either verbally or physically.
Fine: 2,000 shekels (£330) into the family kitty
2 No woman shall question another about her whereabouts.
Fine: 100 shekels
3 No conversation is permitted in rooms other than the living room. It is forbidden to talk nonsense.
Fine: 200 shekels
4 No woman shall sit idle when there are dishes to be washed, cleaning to be done, children to look after etc.
Fine: 2,000 shekels
5 Any two women caught fighting will be punished equally.
Fine: 2,000 shekels
6 It is absolutely forbidden to question Ratzon on his whereabouts or intention.
Fine: 400 shekels
7 It is permissible to ask to accompany him; but refusal is to be accepted without appeal.
Fine: 300 shekels
8 No woman shall interrupt Ratzon or intervene in matters not concerning her.
Fine: 500 shekels
9 All orders are to be obeyed immediately.
Fine: 300 shekels
10 No woman shall work while a man of over 12 years of age is in the house.
Fine 3,000 shekels

Full story here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...ffset=0&page=1

[Hard Larry]

Jaysus, they'll crucify him.

[Keano A Legend]

Originally Posted by Hard Larry

Jaysus, they'll crucify him.

Yes, Jesus was indeed crucified.

[AckwelFoley]

Sign me up

I'll join his cult.

My fee, a mere 10% of his bitches

[Coriolanus]

Wages for doing what exactly? I mean, were some of them working outside the home (presumably only when the sprogs were 12+)

Very odd altogether.

[R0ot]

It is forbidden to talk nonsense.

Woah woah woah, he's on to something here this should be a world wide rule.

It really is a Fritzl Friday today!

[Biggins]

Originally Posted by Nevore

Wages for doing what exactly? I mean, were some of them working outside the home (presumably only when the sprogs were 12+)

Very odd altogether.

“The women made a living by cleaning homes, but they were not permitted to work for men.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...ffset=0&page=1

[minidazzler]

I'm just saying, if one man can keep 30 women in line like that, fair dues to him!!!

[Coriolanus]

Originally Posted by Biggins

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...ffset=0&page=1

Poor women.
I know people will say "sure they should have just ran to the cops while out working" but it's really not as simple as that, esp if there were kids involved. God knows what kind of brain washing and psychological abuse he was putting them under to keep them coming back.

[bonerm]

Whoever broke this story is clearly an anti-semite!

[Princess Consuela Bananahammock]

3 No conversation is permitted in rooms other than the living room. It is forbidden to talk nonsense.
Fine: 200 shekels

Good luck enforcing that one!