Military police officers raided the homes of two Sephardi bnei yeshivos in central Israel early Thursday morning in an attempt to arrest them for “draft dodging.”
Peleg Yerushalmi’s “black alert” warning system brought dozens of protesters to both scenes, successfully thwarting the arrests, as the police wanted to avoid violent confrontations.
The first attempted arrest was at the home of a bochur in Herzliya, and the second was at a home in Ramat Hasharon.
In Herzliya, bochurim entered the family home after the police left the scene and danced in celebration.
On Wednesday, another ben yeshivah, Yitzchak Revivo, a talmud of the Rabbeinu Chaim Ozer Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, was arrested at his home in Ramat Gan.
After a hearing at the military court, Revivo was sentenced to 17 days behind bars at Prison 10.
The Sephardi community is furious that almost every ben yeshivah arrested by military police is Sephardi. The Noar K’Halacha organization is taking legal action against what they claim is military enforcement targeting only members of the Sephardi community.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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Why is ‘draft dodging’ in quotation marks? They are indeed draft dodging. I thought YWN reports news objectively. Am I wrong?
Refuah shleima to the “person” that wrote the first comment
@sifter,
Although one might argue that according to recent laws passed by the current government, any Yeshiva Bachur who does not report to service is a draft dodger, being that the status quo for decades and decades (practically since the foundation of the state of Israel) was for this group to be exempt, it’s ENTIRELY fair to put the term draft dodging in quotations.
@sifter:
Yes, you are wrong that they are draft-dodging, for many reasons.
For one, the evil Zionists made a deal with Agudah – back when the Zionists were about to create their “State” – that learning boys would not be drafted in their “State”-to-be in exchange for Agudah not protesting to the UN against the Zionist Big Lie that they and their State represented all Jews.
In addition, the evil Zionists also shmad Jews in their army, meaning they redefine (i.e., brainwash) their inductees that Judaism is really Zionism, which no army in the world would dare to do. That alone means that they have zero right to draft the non-Zionist religious Jews into their army.