An avreich from Peleg Yerushalmi was stopped by traffic police on Tuesday afternoon as he was driving in central Israel and was transferred to military prison.
The Va’ad for the Hatzalas Olam HaTorah stated that in the coming hours, the Va’ad’s Rabbanim will convene “to hear about the campaign expected to shake Eretz Yisrael from end to end following the throwing of Lomdei Torah into prison.”
At the same time, a Lubavitcher bochur on the way to 770 in Brooklyn was arrested at Ben Gurion Airport, along with about 25 other bnei yeshivos, most of them on the way to Uman. They were transferred to the Tel Hashomer base, where they will stand trial.
In total, over 80 bnei yeshivos are currently being held in military prison and may be forced to spend the Yamim Noraim behind bars.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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What a Jewish state. Reminds me of the third reich. The Arab Israeli enemy roams free and laughs, and the poorest people who just want to learn and had their exemptions yanked overnight are treated as terrorists. Well the state is going to pay with their own blood
Why is this a bad thing? A dose of reality: there are hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries and reservists who will not be able to spend the Yamim Noraim with their families or be in their shuls because they are defending Am Yisrael from a modern day Amalek. Baruch Hashem today there are ways to be in the army while maintaining a frum lifestyle. It is way past the time for excuses for not sharing the burden. As no one other than Moshe Rabeinu himself said: האחיכם יבואו למלחמה
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There are those who describe the situation as the arresting of bochrim for learning Torah. Of course this is nareshkeit – there are thousands and thousands of serious bochrim seriously learning Torah all over the country who are not arrested. Thousands and thousands of bochrim who learn Shach’s and Reb Chaim’s seriously, fight in tzahal for the safety of klal Yisroel, and then go back to learning Bava Metzia and Yoreh Deah seriously, and these young men are not arrested. No one is being arrested for learning Torah. That’s baba maaseh.
It’s a shame you have fellow evil Jews rejoicing over this while the state gives all Arabs a free pass and that doesn’t bother these hateful Jews at all