A court on Monday refused to grant a police request, to distance Peleg Yerushalmi talmidim from the city after being arrested on Sunday during a Peleg protest in the capital.
The protest was a response to the arrest and subsequent incarceration of Peleg talmid Yehuda Tumback, who was arrested at Ben-Gurion Airport last week as he was trying to head to Europe, to visit Kivrei Tzaddikim. It was established that he is wanted by the IDF for failing to report to a draft center. He was handed over to military police and jailed as a result.
The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Monday afternoon rejected a request from a police representative to issue an order to bar one of the protesters from Jerusalem for 180 days and to prohibit another proteser from participating in another protest of the Peleg for 180 days for taking part in the illegal protest.
The second suspect is a Jerusalem resident, so police only requested distancing one of them from the capital for 180 days. It was explained that for the second suspect, it was not the first time he was arrested.
Defense attorney Roi Politi pointed out that due to the fact it is so easy to repeat the crime of ‘illegal gathering’, and the fine line between this and one’s right to protest. He feels the court does not always have to rule to impose the maximum restrictions, calling on the court to impose minimum restrictions.
After hearing from both sides, Judge Oren Silverman accepted the police request in part, but decided not to distance either from the capital as police hoped for. Judge Silverman explained he feels such a move is “extreme” considering the minor offense.
Peleg officials add that one bochur taken into custody is wanted by military police too, but for whatever reason, police decided to release him and not turn him over to military police, as has been the case in the past.
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The Israeli police really are our enemy. They are such thugs. You walk around Israel and see the Israeli police and can know what it was like to deal with Cossacks. These are the most heartless, religion hating people. Never make aliyah and subject yourself to the environment over here. It is so hostile to religious people. You think, oh they are Jews these police. I really wonder if all of them are, certainly not the chiefs. Born Jewish or not, they have become something else.
ARMY – by force. 1 month & they’ll have all this nonsense worked out of them.
It is the Israeli judiciary who are the real enemy here. Shame that Judge Silverman wasn’t delayed for hours one day by these Peleg thugs. If he had been he might not have considered this such a minor offense. All the Peleg criminals arrested should know that they will be banned from all Peleg protests anywhere in Israel for 180 days if arrested and brought before the Courts. It will actually be a favor to them, giving them the menuchas hanefesh needed to sit quietly and learn, without the need to think they need to be out in the streets stealing other people’s time. There is a democratic right to protest but Israel is not a democratic state and even in democratic states, criminals have their rights quashed.
JNN10: Most of us wish the security forces would be MORE “heartless” and finally come down hard and squash the Peleg hoodlums, and the roshei yeshivos who direct their illegal activity. Its likely that some combination of physical force and lengthy jail sentences will be need to deter this type of almost non-stop disruption of peoples’ lives. Its a long-standing understanding that those who engage in civil disobedience should be prepared to bear the consequences. Well as this article points out, so far there have been few consequences. Its time to break some eggs.
Gadolhadorah, if only you had this much hatred for the REAL enemies of Hashem as you do for a bunch of bochurim that are just blocking the road. They aren’t physically or spiritually hurting anyone.
I don’t see the same sort of hatred directed at the Peleg-niks as the Ethiopian protestors or the 2011 protests, even though they blocked the road just like Peleg did, and in some cases causing even more disruption than them. I’m not with Peleg, but I know a double standard against charedim when I see one.
It is generally understood that the Ethiopian community suffers discrimination which is maybe why the majority of the population were more tolerant of their protests. It is understood that the peleg hooligans are protesting about the State’s refusal to allow a section of the population to shirk their legal responsibilities. If the peleg youth do not like it in Israel, let them move elsewhere. In most European countries and in the USA there is no conscription. Those are democratic societies where the peleg youth will be able to sit and learn undisturbed by the “zionist Cossacks”, and we will be able to carry on our normal lives without being disturbed and embarrassed by their un-Torahdik conduct. The State of Israel, which is currently the government of Eretz Yisroel, just isn’t for everyone.