Ahlul Bayt News Agency, Yossi (Yosef) Elitzur, a resident of the hardline Yitzhar settlement in the north of the occupied West Bank, was arrested on Thursday for incitement to racism and violence, AFP reported.
But a court in Rishon LeZion, near Tel Aviv, ordered that the rabbi be released the same day, saying police had failed to call him in first for questioning.
The King's Torah, a controversial book Elitzur co-authored with another rabbi, says Jews are allowed to kill "those who, by speech, weaken our sovereignty," adding that it is permissible "to kill the righteous among nations even if they are not responsible for the threatening situation."
The book further allows the killing of the infants and children of Israel's enemies since "it is clear that they will grow to harm us."
"Where the influence of goys (non-Jews) constitutes a threat for the life of Israel it is permissible to kill them," it further reads.
Published in November 2009, the book has drawn strong criticism from numerous rabbis who say it contradicts the teachings of Judaism.
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