UTJ chairman Yitzchak Goldknopf condemned the relentless persecution of Lomdei Torah following the arrests of three yeshiva bochurim overnight Tuesday, the third consecutive night that Bnei Torah were arrested in a blatant violation of their religious rights.
“The painful arrests of bnei yeshivos last night by the military and civilian police is a dangerous, aggressive, and carefully planned escalation in the relentless persecution being waged against Lomdei Torah,” Goldknopf stated.
“These scenes of ambushes and hunting down fine bochurim solely because they are bnei yeshivos sadly remind us of very dark, difficult, and painful periods in the long history of the Jewish people in exile.”
“Davka during such a sensitive, tense, and bloody security period, when Am Yisrael needs more Torah zechuyos and achdus, one would expect the police, who are entrusted with law and public order, to act with supreme responsibility, maturity, and discretion, and to completely avoid such populist measures,” Goldknopf added.
“I call from here, in the clearest possible way, on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to personally and immediately intervene in this serious incident, and without delay, order an end to these improper arrests and ambushes against Torah scholars.”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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7 Responses
What exactly is the “religious right” being violated that exempts someone from the Israeli army?
Does he really expect Bibi to intervene? The only reason what might cause him to do it is in order to gain the Chareidi vote, but he realizes that he has lost that already.
And what is the prime minister supposed to do when it didn’t come from him? There is a corrupt court system of overlords and their Chief Nazi attorney general pulling all the strings. This duck can’t stop it
As the Chofetz Chaim predicted over a century ago, as stated by his prime student Rav Elchonon HY”D, galus under the (zera amaleik who are) yevsektzia is the worst galus.
After you bring Bibi down, you ask him for help. Why doesn’t Rabbi Goldknopf run for prime minister?
exaggerated rhetoric this blatant enforcement of the law against draft evaders
DrAnti-Torah; they are NOT “draft evaders” – THEY ARE LOYALISTS TO TORAH, JUDAISM AND THEIR RABBAIM! YOU are the Torah evader!