A talmid of the Maorot HaTorah yeshiva in Kiryat Yearim and his brother, a graduate of the yeshiva, were arrested overnight Tuesday at their home in Tel Aviv by military police officers for “draft dodging.”
The arrest took place as part of a night raid on dozens of homes of bnei yeshivos in mainly secular cities. However, apart from the two bochurim, the attempts to locate the others were unsuccessful. The IDF claimed that the operation did not specifically target bnei yeshivos but was directed at deserters from all sectors.
The arrest of the bochurim took place while their parents were on vacation, unaware of what was happening at their home and the arrest of their sons. The yeshiva administration was also not updated on the arrest.
Many hours after their arrest, the bochurim were permitted to make a phone call. They called the yeshiva staff, who responded quickly and transferred the case to Adv. Menachem Stauber, who will represent them.
The older brother was previously arrested on Purim and sentenced to 14 days in military prison.
Overnight Monday, in the first action of its kind, military police attempted to arrest a newly married avreich in Haifa for draft-dodging.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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Baruch Hashem! now the burden will begin to be slowly be lifted off of Hiloni and Dati Leumi soldiers and reservists.
What is meant by “a graduate of the Yeshiva” – is he now in Yeshiva or not? If not, he doesn’t even have a pseudo-reason to not to serve.
an Israeli Yid
Time to shut down the Zionist Entity’s streets especially their business districts and in Tel Aviv. Time to flood the zone with tens of thousands of Chareidim clogging every street, preventing all vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
Let’s see the jackbooted Zionists on horsebacks try to incarcerate tens of thousands of people on misdemeanor civil disobedience charges. They’ll have to free Hamas terrorists from their lockups to free space for the terrible anti-Zionist Yidden.
If their Torah didn’t protect them from the Military Police, why do they think it can protect others from Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran?