A number of arrests were made in a yeshiva in Israel, suspects believed to be involved in a drug ring operating from within the yeshiva R”L. Those involved were selling ecstasy in the Bnei Brak area yeshiva.

According to police, some of the main suspects learned in recent years in a well-known Bnei Brak yeshiva, and often used the yeshiva and dorm to host their business.

“We saw people who obviously did not belong here going in and out with black bags. We realized it was something illegal. There were rumors of hard drugs but even with that, the arrests have the community shocked” a talmid of the yeshiva told Kikar Shabbos. It is added some rabbonim had suspicions but were unable to anything as the matter involved older bochrim who they could not oust from the yeshiva.

Attorney Roi Atias, who is representing one of the suspects, tells the media the entire incident has been blown out of proportion as some are referring to it as a drug cartel operating in a yeshiva. He insists two avreichim who returned from Germany were not even aware of what they were carrying in the sealed packages of cigarettes they were carrying.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)