Leviticus 19:16 places do not go about as a talebearer and do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbour in the same verse, and the rabbis read the juxtaposition as instruction: silence is not neutrality. The Talmud extends it to a duty to rescue in person, to hire rescuers, and to spend money on it, which is considerably stronger than most Western legal systems, and Israeli law codified it in 1998 under the verse's name. The doctrinal collision is with mesirah, the old prohibition on handing a Jew over to gentile authorities, which developed under regimes where doing so meant handing them to torture or death. In the last two decades that prohibition has been used to suppress reporting of child sexual abuse to police in some Haredi communities, and the fight over it has been conducted almost entirely in halakhic terms. Rulings from Orthodox authorities including Elyashiv and, more explicitly, from the Rabbinical Council of America and from Israeli poskim, now hold that credible suspicion of abuse must go to the authorities and that mesirah does not apply. Enforcement of that position, community by community, is uneven and is one of the sharpest internal arguments in Orthodoxy today.