ARIEL, West Bank (RNS) After their teenage son was nearly killed last
year by a bomb disguised as a holiday gift basket, few people were as
eager for Ya’acov Teitel to see justice as Leah and David Ortiz.
Teitel, an Orthodox Jewish loner who confessed to placing the
package in the family’s stairwell said he targeted the Ortiz family
because they are Messianic Jews—Jews who believe in Jesus as the
Messiah.
“We want justice, not revenge,” said Leah Ortiz, who has lived in
this religiously mixed city of 30,000 since the late 1980s. “This
happened because Teitel had hate in his heart. He needs to be in
prison.”