During a virtual Zoom with Rabbi YY Jacobson, Mr. Eli Beer, the founder of United Hatzolah, shared an intriguing discussion he had with Hagaon Rav Chaim Kanievsky zt”l concerning his moral duty when it comes to administering medical care to a terrorist.
Beer made it clear that amid the ongoing conflicts, his organization has neither offered medical assistance to any terrorists nor transported them to hospitals.
He then recounted a query he presented to Rav Chaim. In a situation where a terrorist had stabbed a Jew and subsequently got shot, and the terrorist’s injuries were more severe than the Jewish victim’s, who should be treated first? Conventional emergency response principles dictate prioritizing the more severely injured person over the less injured one, but what should be done when one of the casualties is a terrorist?
“You have an obligation to approach the terrorist first, shoot him, and then attend to the Jewish victim,” said Rav Chaim. Beer quoted Rav Chaim as stating, “The terrorist is considered a rodef” [even if the terrorist is no longer capable of causing harm to anyone].
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Kindly explain this. If the terrorist is disabled and cant further attack (seriously injured), why would we not be required first to treat the jew? If the terrorist is still capable of standing then ofc kill him first. The fact that he has a din rodeph – requires to kill him first even if hes already disabled, and the jew is bleeding out?
Also, what’s the special importance and relevance of this now?
Because people are asking, if one doesn’t wear his flimsy disposable mask up to his eyebrows, is that considered a rodef?
Would love to see the reaction of Israel’s self-hating judges in the Hi Court of Injustice about this.