The two Chareidi brothers arrested by the military police this week were sentenced by the military court on Wednesday for failing to report for army service.
The bochur who learns at the Maorot HaTorah yeshivah was sentenced to 17 days of detention, and his brother, a graduate of the yeshivah, was sentenced to 13 days of detention.
It is likely that protests will take place against the prison sentences by various factions within the Chareidi sector.
The Agudat Bnei HaYeshivos, which is handling the case, stated, “The Rabbanim of the Agudat Bnei HaYeshivot visited the residences of the Sephardi Gedolei HaTorah today and were advised that the Chareidi public will no longer remain silent in the face of the army’s attempts to target yeshiva students in peripheral cities and that they will soon announce an escalation of the public struggle.”
Maorot HaTorah is a Chareidi yeshivah intended for bochurim who are ba’alei teshuvah or stem from a less religious background who are interested in becoming more yeshivish. Some Rabbanim are complaining that the army is davka targeting weaker bochurim. A Rav in Maorot HaTorah told Kikar H’Shabbat, “We all knew that the army would not start arresting standard bochurim from Jerusalem, Modiin Illit, Bnei Brak, or Beit Shemesh who are from mainstream families and learn in regular yeshivos.”
However, the Rav warned that Chareidi leaders must fight for these bochurim. “This is the litmus test for what will happen to us later. Now they are normalizing arrests of non-mainstream bochurim, and when the army sees that it is getting away with it quietly, it will certainly increase its efforts, and then we will see a huge wave of arrests in in the Chareidi cities.”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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Time to take down the streets. Block every intersection in the business districts and in Tel Aviv. Crash the stock exchange. Interrupt all business in the State. Keep it to for weeks or months. Tens and tens of thousands of Yidden hogging all vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
i have yet to hear a valid argument why they are exempt. its mafia style blackmail. everyone who is a citizen must serve. these exemptions are not good for the country.
Protests expected…Time to take down the streets…blah, blah, blah
But not one word about Torah and Tefilah to counteract this.
Enough said.
Get in the streets it is time for war no one is exempt from this holy war
Bring a friend! ha’acheichem yeitzu limilchama ve’atem teishvu poh?
laptop:
They are exempt because it is abominable to forcibly convert Jews to another religion (in this case, Zionism), in the Zionist army.
That’s in addition to the deal that the Zionists made (and have now broken) with Agudah when the wicked Zionists declared “independence” that Torah learners will remain exempt from army service.
ujm, block the streets so that ambulances are delayed and people DIE; makes as much sense as draft evasion.
They want Chareidim in the army but dont draft Arabs,yet will allow Arabs on Supreme Court but Chareidim are not allowed on Supreme Court. They also don’t allow religious soldiers to advance to generals and that’s even misnachlim. When the army will have generals who are Chareidim and no women will be drafted and all Jewish soldiers will be required six months of learning in yeshivas then we can talk. Why isn’t every soldier who is Jewish request to wear tzitzos and daven three times a day. When the army will be like In ancient Israel then will talk.
laptop: time for you to leave the laptop and return to the yeshiva. The entire country is a Mafia country, based on who-you-know-protektzia. There are ways and means for someone to avoid army service or combat positions – and citizens across the spectrum use them. Go around the streets and you will find many many citizens that do not and have not served. (Parenthetically: 2 million Arabs within the ‘Green Line’ are citizens and do not serve and no one says anything. Good enough to be our judges, doctors, etc. etc. so don’t give me ‘security risk’ cr*p). This is a kulterkampf fuelled by the left that has given a hitch to those duped by the corrupt media and Deep State that is very very real here. It’s Beis Sheini all over again. Mashiach be’ito, not achishena – hopefully very soon. Daven. be good to each other.
So one of them is a graduate of the yeshiva, that is not in the yeshiva? And the other one chilling at home while parents are vacationing and unaware that the kid is not shteiging. Now that police blew their cover, parents are going to take away his car keys and passport.
@laptop: you DO NOT need to hear any argument; THIS IS WHAT THE GEDOLIM AND HUNDREDS OF ROSHEI YESHIVA PAST & PRESENT RULED – THERE IS NOTHING TO ARGUE ABOUT!
Yeshiva World editors, who insist on remaining anonymous, sickly allow amey haaretz to comment on these articles! You hand a mic to mockers and let them spit bile while bochurim sit in prison for learning Torah.
You keep the comments open so the warriors on wifi can cry “fairness”, while the true milchama is waged in the walls of the beis medrash.
You will be judged by Hashem. These articles aren’t journalism; they’re chum bait for morally bankrupt, the ones who cheer when a Jew in tzitzis is shackled for daring to choose Torah. WHY DO YOU ALLOW COMMENTATORS TO MOCK GEDOLIM, WHO INSIST NOT TO DRAFT!?
Whose side are you on in the battle for our nation’s soul? The pig-eaters who call for handcuffs on our lomdei Torah?
For shame! You’re not protecting Israel, or free speech, you’re gutting its soul, by allowing one arrogant commt at a time.