A Chareidi avreich from Ashkeon was arrested for draft-dodging early Tuesday afternoon at Ben-Gurion Airport, where he was on his way abroad with his family.
The 22-year-old avreich, who got married three months ago, was later transferred to the military police.
As is known, bnei yeshivos have been instructed not to try to leave the county before clarifying their legal status with the Va’ad Hayeshivos. According to reports, the avreich’s family said that he tried to clarify his status before his flight with the Va’ad Hayeshivos but did not receive an answer. The Va’ad Hayeshivos, on the other hand, claims that the avreich was told that his status was still being clarified, and he chose to fly on his own accord.
The avreich’s family turned to the Am Kadosh organization, affiliated with Peleg Yerushalmi, which is providing him with legal assistance.
Following the arrest, the heads of the Badatz Eidah HaChareidit and Gaavad HaRav Tzvi Friedman, the leader of one of the Peleg Yerushalimi sects, instructed avreichim to carry out a protest in the Lod area.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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Shut down the airport for a day and they will think twice before arresting another Ben Torah…
1) how much years he spent in learning that he could not understand “your status is being clarified”
2) how much halocho did he learn that he is not committed to follow instructions of the Vaad
3) Hope he was on the way to a mitzvah – teaching Torah, visiting Uman, or at least mesameach his new wife, to ensure protection from Heaven.
Are tefilos also expected to take place later today or only protests?
The status of Torah is ones profession means one is always learning. Can anyone imagine Shimon Bar Yochai taking a vacation abroad and being bitul Torah. Once one has left the yeshiva and stopped learning there is no heter to not enlist in the army. One who is not learning cannot say his learning protects Israel.
Maybe they stopped his leaving the country because l’shittosso he’s a soldier for Klal Yisroel through the Torah learning he does in EY?
So, just like any other soldier would not be permitted to leave his unit nor EY, so too this avreich should not be permitted to leave his unit (his yeshiva) nor EY?
The type of response most likely to get results is for the Hareidim to negotiate with moderate Arabs (e.g. the Jordanians, perhaps the Israeli Arabs, etc.), and to offer support for a large Islamic state replacing Medinat Yisrael, with full autonomy (i.e. return to the Ottoman’s Dhimmi, with more non-political rights for Jews) for the Hareidim community. This was what was negotiated at the end of World War I, and was sabotaged by the British for fear that the Arab state, with a substantial Jewish minority, would be a threat to the British Empire.
Arrest & deport.
Law & order.
@smerel – why would there be tefilos? It’s a time for direct action! We all know that tefilos and learning only work against Arab and Iranian attackers, right? It’s a mefurash Chazal in… in… umm…
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