A chassidish avreich taken into police custody during the stormy protests in solidarity with a Yeshiva Bochur locked up for not reporting to the IDF was released along with other protesters.
The chossid was arrested on Thursday after his vehicle became entangled in an Ashdod area protest. In actuality, he claims he had nothing whatsoever to do with the stormy protest. The man is a mashgiach kashrus who happened to pass through the area.
Witnesses report the man, whose daughter was engaged a night earlier, was caught in traffic and was unable to move due to the street becoming blocked from the spontaneous protest. Police targeted him and simply pulled him from the vehicle, accusing him of organizing the protest. He was promptly taken into custody. Dozens of Ashdod police volunteers, members of the chareidi community, went to the police station and announced if the man is not released, they are going to stop their volunteer activities. They told officers the man who was detained had no connection to the protest.
Despite their best efforts, the man was held in custody over Shabbos and the L’chaim for his daughter was placed on hold. On motzei Shabbos, the man was released to one-week house arrest by a court. His attorney demanded that his client should be released without conditions, explaining there was no justification for the house arrest. The court’s decision was pending at the time of this report.
The prosecution on Sunday appealed the court’s decision to release 13 other chareidim arrested on Thursday evening as well. Police say they were active participants in the protests and the prosecution feels that must remain behind bars. The hearing is set for Sunday afternoon, 9 Adar I. All of the suspects remain behind bars pending the court’s ruling on Sunday.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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11 Responses
We need achdus
500,000 shod come out to protest and turn over the court once and for all
Living in Israel is a sakona to both neshoma and guf. It’s interesting to contemplate how long that cauldron of atheism would survive if every last Torah Jew, and that excludes the dreamy, air head daati leumi crowd, were to relocate to friendlier climes.
Pray tell, why is everyone scrambling to make aliyah to a country where our own seem to hate us more than the gentiles of the host land??
Just don’t get it. Never did, never will.
40 years ago, after my bar mitzvah, I was treated to a summer in Eretz Yisroel. I felt the anti-frum sentiment back them already and I was only a kid.
Can someone please enlighten me….
Cops there dont care. Ready fire aim is their motto.
I’ll enlighten everyone. These guys arrested are rioters. Arrested for criminal behavior. Their Charediness is not reason enough to release them from prison.
I didn’t get to finish before pressing send. Unfortunately, police in Israel are known for their unjust brutality. This causes me to seriously doubt their authenticity when making statements as to a persons innocence.
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How do you “turn over the court” in EY? There are very restrictive rules about removing a judge from office but policy disagreements with the government is not a legitimate basis for such actions.
arizona: you and those who support your hashkofo are welcome to leave eretz ysroel if they wish. I prefer to stay in the land of my ancestors and of my fellow jews.
Donkey13: mmm….who do you think funded all those yeshivos these past forty years? who do you think fought the Yom Kipput War (forty years ago) to protect you and the yeshivas? and who do you think stands guard today to protect the yeshivos from terrorists?
don’t want to be in jail over shabbos do not behave like an animal.
amazing people think because one is frum they are exempt from any imprisonment in Israel and even in the USA
Donkey13:
typically, the reason is the yetzer HaRa for the Avoda Zara of Zionism.
“Religious Zionism” is, as Rav Elchonon wrote, religion with, lihavdil, Avoda Zara.
All of the above comments advocating civil disobidence and the criminal acts such as the horrific torching of the police car a few days ago should be ashamed of the chillul hashem they are advocating.
I simply don’t understand how you can equate leaving yeshiva on a temporoary basis for a year and a half to serve in the army to the ‘uprooting of judaism’ in Israel, get a grip and tone down the hysteria, compromise a bit and maybe you’ll be treated better, not everyone is out to get you.