12/ But perhaps we are mistaken and the honorable Rabínical Judge Zarbiv will explain how he secured those mortgages, once he is done "flattening Gaza”.

11/ How does one get a mortgage for an illegal house? That question should be directed to Mizrahi Tefahot Bank. Since they are unlikely to respond, we will say this: it is reasonable to assume that a fake document was produced to falsely indicate the house has a legal status. >>.

10/ Over the years, Zarbiv and his wife received several mortgages from Mizrahi Tefahot Bank, using as collateral the very house that was built outside the settlement's jurisdiction, without permits and under a longstanding demolition order. >>.

9/ The house is located on the northwestern edge of the settlement of Beit El, in an area where most homes were built against the law on privately owned Palestinian lands, lands that settlers, with the help of the state, looted from its rightful owners. >>.

8/ It now turns out that Avraham Zarbiv, the highly motivated D-9 operater, lives in a house that was built illegally and has had a demolition order pending against it since 2000. >>.

7/ and making statements that suggest involvement in actions that could allegedly be considered war crimes. None of this, of course, is considered "controversial" in today's Israel. >>.

6/ But Zarbiv is not one to shy away from the spotlight. He appears frequently in interviews and videos, dressed in uniform, demolishing buildings, roaming through the rubble, spouting nationalist and racist rhetoric >>.

5/ Like any other judge, he is prohibited from speaking publicly about controversial matters, meaning political matters (as stipulated in article 18 of the "Rules of Ethics for Rabbinical Judges"). >>. Here's the "Rules of Ethics for Rabbinical Judges" doc.

4/ In normal times (in as much as that term applies to where we live) Zarbiv serves as a rabbinical judge on the Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court. >>.

3/ Zarbiv has become a media personality, thanks to his expertise in one very specific field: demolishing buildings and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. >>.

2/ A resident of the isolated and violent settlement of Beit El, where many homes were built even in violation of the Israeli military law which applies in the West Bank >>.

1/ Avraham Zarbiv is the kind of public figure whose very fame reflects something profound about the miserable state of the society he comes from. >>.

Avraham Zarbiv, famed for demolishing homes in Gaza, lives in an illegal house in Beit El with a 25-year-old demolition order. In 2025 Israel, destroying Gaza earns prestige, and you can even get a mortgage on an illegal house in the West Bank, as long as you’re Jewish. Thread.

14/ instead of investigating him, removing him from office, and putting him on trial for the serious crimes he proudly brags about committing on Facebook. Here's a link to his post

13/ This is how the cycle of violence perpetuates itself - each act feeding the next - while we all remain trapped in a spiraling escalation. And trapped we are, because we allow people like Ozel Vatik to run local councils in a region governed by an apartheid regime >>.

12/ The outpost is named after Gideon Perry, a settler from the settlement of Kdumim who was killed about a year ago by a Palestinian while working in a nearby industrial zone. >>.

11/ The outpost itself was built on top of a hill surrounded by olive trees that had stood there for decades, even centuries, long before Mr. Vatik was born. >>

10/ In order to reach this enclave, which is cut off from the rest of the settlement, settlers broke out a road over a kilometer long through the villagers' olive groves, which the villagers have been barred from accessing for decades due to settler violence. >>.

9/ Although the land was never officially allocated to the settlement of Kdumim, that has not stopped its settlers from moving in and taking control. What else is new? >>.

8/ The outpost sits near an area that was declared as "state land" in 1986, based on the claim that it was either uncultivated or not cultivated enough. >>.