On Sunday 24 Adar-II, Beersheva District Court Judge Yisrael Pablo Axelrod rejected the petition filed by Honenu Attorney Sima Kochav on behalf of administrative detainee Meir Ettinger and ruled that he will not be permitted to participate in his son’s brit milah, which is expected to take place the following day. The Prison Service suggested that the bris be held at the prison. Moriya Ettinger, the wife of administrative detainee Meir Ettinger, stated that the family refuses to hold the bris milah at the prison, which the court conditions on the presence of only 15 people who will undergo meticulous searches by the Prison Service before entering the prison.
Other members of Ettinger’s family stated that they will refuse to hold the bris milah in prison in a manner in which not all of Ettinger’s siblings and close relatives will be able to participate in the event, and whoever will able to participate will be forced to undergo humiliating searches.
“This is not our private matter, but rather the struggle for Jewish identity, for the differentiation between friend and foe, and between Israel and the nations. With G-d’s help, the bris milah will take place at its time, with Meir. I call on everyone to support our struggle,” said Moriya Ettinger. Ettinger also wrote a letter to the Chief Rabbis of Israel, Rabbi David Lau and Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef’ requesting their assistance in obtaining furlough for her husband to participate in their son’s bris milah.
Supreme Court Justice Mani Mazuz scheduled a deliberation for 9:00 A.M. today, Monday 25 Adar-II at the Supreme Court Building for the urgent appeal filed by Honenu Attorney Adi Kedar on the matter of Meir Ettinger’s participation in his son’s bris milah. A panel of three judges will rule on the appeal.
Friends of the family were shocked that Justice Mazuz scheduled the deliberation for Monday, the day of the bris and not Sunday when it was requested.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Simply disgusting. Mr. Pablo (Jewish?) has such a deep hatred of all things “rightist” or Jewish that he needs to continue Israel’s unnecessary and unethical incarceration and torture of Mr. Ettinger, who has done no wrong.