Shlomo Helbrans, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Ledaer of the sect "Lev tahor" (Pure hear)
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Place of Birth: Jerusalem, Israel
About Shlomo Helbrans
- Shlomo Erez Helbrans (Hebrew: ???? ???????; November 5, 1962 – July 7, 2017) was an Israeli Haredi anti-Zionist religious leader.
- He was the founder and Rebbe of the Lev Tahor Jewish sect. Originally having established his community in Israel, which he claimed to have modeled after the Satmar Hasidic movement, Helbrans moved his non-Zionist community to the United States, where he was convicted in 1994 for kidnapping, for which he served two years in prison.
- During this time he was accused by a few former community members of child abuse, serving medicine and psychological pills, and using various punishments on his followers.
- He was deported back to Israel, but in 2001 he fled to Canada, where he reestablished his community in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec, applying for and attaining refugee status for himself two years later.
- In November 2013, amid clashes with the education authorities, most members of the group left for Ontario, again claiming religious persecution.
- On July 7, 2017, Helbrans drowned while performing a ritual immersion in a river in Mexico at the age of 54.
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