"Rabbi" Nissim "the Sorcerer" and the Magic Plate of Yeruḥam: A Political-Folkloristic Rashomon

The article examines the narratives surrounding a magic plate that was found in the new cemetery of Yeruḥam, a small town in the northern Negev. I trace the rashomon surrounding the plate and its context in the web of Yeruḥam's rumors and political activity. My main aim is to bring out the complexity of such a "sorcery event," the roles of rumor, inference, speculation, rivalries, and enmities in the various constructions of what took place, and above all, the role of narrative in stabilizing and legitimizing the different points of view.