The sons of the Emanuel parents imprisoned in Massiyahu Prison in Ramle are going to Bnei Brak today, Sunday, scheduled to arrive at Maran Rosh Yeshiva, HaGaon HaRav Aaron Leib Shteinman for a bracha. They are expected to be at Maran’s home at 6:00pm.

Reports indicate Rav Shteinman is also planning to visit Massiyahu, but his arrival will be delayed as a result of his desire to give the children a bracha.

The girls of the same families are not in school, but receiving a break from the pressures of the affair in Moshav Komimiyut in the south, where they are in a camp-type program.

In the meantime, back at the solidarity tent outside Massiyahu Prison, preparations are underway as City Hall is being most supportive, beyond the expectations of anyone involved. Large speakers are being set up to accommodate chareidi entertainers, and the city is also providing garbage cans, sanitation service, lighting at night and electricity.

The MKs of Yahadut HaTorah praise the city for its support as they are trying to maintain a round-the-clock presence during the two week prison term.

In the meantime, Chinuch Atzmai suffered another blow on Sunday, and the court rejected a petition to wave the staggering NIS 5,000 daily fine. Adding to the court’s insult, Chinuch Atzmai was also ordered to pay an additional NIS 5,000 to cover the legal fees of the petition.

The secular media continues to feed off of the affair, questioning the loyalty of chareidi MKs, deputy ministers and ministers, and the chareidi population at large, for its blasphemous adjectives regarding the nation’s highest court of law.

(In a somewhat related matter, no mention is made regarding the blasphemous comments released during the past weeks by Gabi Gazit and Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, in their tasteless references to the chareidi community at large).

The court on Sunday also called on Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein, to urgently probe article 255 of the penal law to see if the Emanuel parents violated the law pertaining to contempt of court.

The court is referring to the 22 mothers who are aware of the court’s ruling and the two-week prison term, yet they continue to ignore the court, referring to Thursday when they returned home instead of turning themselves over to authorities by 5:00pm as the court instructed. Earlier in the day, the court signaled it would announce its decision regarding the mother’s prison term on Tuesday.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)