The chairman of Degel HaTorah, MK Moshe Gafni, visited the bnei yeshivos imprisoned in the military jail in Kfar Yona, offering them words of chizzuk.
Gafni is the first Chareidi MK to visit the prison.
Among those he met was Ariel Shamai, a student at Ateret Shlomo Yeshiva, whose arrest sparked demonstrations and protests across the country and became the “red line” that led to the initiative for the “Million Man Rally” planned for Thursday.
After leaving the prison, Gafni said, “It is a terrible disgrace for the State of Israel that someone who learns Torah is arrested and thrown into jail. This is an intolerable and unacceptable reality, and we will do everything possible to get them out of here and return them to their yeshivos so they can continue learning Torah.”
Gafni has worked over the past week to secure the release of imprisoned bnei yeshivos.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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this reminds me of stories from the time of the tsar in Russia and the cantonists where they stole Jewish boys from cheder. How can any frum Yid support such a medina?
“Woe is to the people for the embarrassment of the torah”
we should be proud to be moser nefesh for the Torah and tell our einklech I did not join the IDF and learnt the Torah