Rabbi Avraham Idan, the Rosh Yeshivah of the Ateret Halevi Yeshiva in Jerusalem, was violently arrested after he happened to pass by the area where the clashes were taking place near Rechov Chana last week.
In shocking interviews he held with Israeli media channels on Sunday, he described the violence and humiliation he endured at the hands of the police despite the fact that he was not involved in the protests.
“I was driving on Chana–Eli HaKohen Street on the way to buy supplies for my son’s bris,” he said. “There was garbage there, overturned trash bins, and chaos. The police were throwing one stun grenade after another. No one understood what was going on. One officer told me to drive, and another told me to stop.”
He said that that incident began when police officers demanded that he exit his vehicle while he was waiting in the traffic jam. “I intended to open the window, but suddenly I saw a police officer in front of me with a Taser aimed at me.” As he hesitated, the police officers smashed his window, forcibly pulled him from his car, and beat him in front of his son.
“They kicked me in the ribs, the stomach, and the head. They cuffed me and put me into the police vehicle,” he said. “I shouted at them, ‘I’m not resisting. I understand that I’m under arrest; don’t hit me,’ but they simply rained blows on me.”
“Even when I was in the police vehicle, while it was driving, they continued to beat me and curse me. The officer sitting next to me says, ‘You’re worse than the Nukhbas, worse than the terrorists in Gaza. I told him, ‘I’m not an extremist; I have a bachelor’s degree; I did national service.’ And he answers me, “Shut up, dog, you’re all the same.”
Upon arriving at the station, the harsh treatment continued. “There was an Arab sitting next to me. I asked for a cup of water, but they refused to give one to me. The Arab asked for a cup of water, and they gave him one immediately. There was a yeshiva bochur next to me who asked to go to the bathroom, and they told him: ‘You Chareidim need to be killed, one by one.’ I heard a policewoman there say, ‘The Chareidim need to be burned; they’re destroying the country.'”
He said he was interrogated for long hours while injured, without medical treatment and without water, and was released after it became clear that there was no real suspicion against him. “For nothing. Really for nothing. No one apologized; no one said it was a mistake. The investigator told me explicitly: this is no longer because of you. It’s become something personal for the police.”
After his release, Rabbi Idan sought medical treatment for broken ribs and severe pain.
It should be noted that his son’s bris is scheduled to take place on Monday, but he is still under house arrest despite the fact that there is no evidence against him for the police’s claim that he tried to run over police officers.
Rabbi Idan’s sister said in an interview with Kol Chai, “His child is now terrified; he’s suffering from anxiety, sitting at home.”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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Yet idolaters get upset when people label the Zionists as Nazis.
Maybe they should feature this in their next “Aliyah Now” ad.
As the Chofetz Chaim said in Yiddish “I am sure that they are from the seed of Amaleik”.
I hate to say this but the Chareidi extremist in Eretz Yisroel have made headlines over and over again fighting against the very soldiers that are working day and night to keep Am Yisroel safe.
Sadly, this is the most misguided generation of Frum Yidden who attack the very people that give their lives to keep us safe Al Pi Derech Hateva.
There is something very wrong with the Hashkafa being taught in certain circles.
Sadly, this results in a normal Frum Yid, doing his Hishtadlus yet gets singled out and arrested for the crimes of others who dress like him.
A very sad reality. Time to effectuate change by teaching Hakoras Hatov and basic Derech Eretz in those very Yeshivos.
Enough with the extremism. It’s Heipech Hatorah.
“Even when I was in the police vehicle, while it was driving, they continued to beat me and curse me. The officer sitting next to me says, ‘You’re worse than the Nukhbas, worse than the terrorists in Gaza. I told him, ‘I’m not an extremist; I have a bachelor’s degree; I did national service.’ And he answers me, “Shut up, dog, you’re all the same.”
So this Jew “served his country”, the “Jewish” “State”, in their “National Service”, did absolutely nothing wrong, and the Zionist Nazis that needlessly brutalized him still called him a “dog”, specifically discriminated against the Jew and gave water to an Arab but not him, called the Jew worse than the elite terrorists that invaded their country and murdered their citizens, and on and on.
If this had happened in any other country, the Zionists would be protesting to the leader of that country about mistreatment of Jews. Yet this is perfectly normal for the Zionist paradise.
“There was a yeshiva bochur next to me who asked to go to the bathroom, and they told him: ‘You Chareidim need to be killed, one by one.’ I heard a policewoman there say, ‘The Chareidim need to be burned; they’re destroying the country.’””
Note the Nazi Zionists’ absolute and unapologetic “racism” (Jews actually come from many races, but this means any Jew who remains an original Jew as opposed to the new Zionist “Hebrew” replacement for Jew…)
This marks an incredibly new low in the country; I submit all attributable to the A.G. and the Xsupreme court’s attitude. This is not what Jews do unto anybody. Where is the ICC? I submit that Trump bring it with Netanyahu.
Some Jews became worse than the Nazis. May we be saved from their evilness soon and may the Jews that stick up for them go down along with them
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/the-fourth-reich-of-israel/
More than the umos haolam hate Jews the am haaratzim (frei people) hate the frum
Innocent bystander, I agree.
But who’s fault is it?
I am just as frum as the rest of you…. If you get the entire frum and non frum world to believe that the Israelis fry are wrong here,,, this doesn’t change the fact of who is and has incited this violence… It’s clearly the so called frum and frum yeshivah boys. You can choose no block me or not post my comment. But God knows the truth. And so do you…. No matter how you twist this …..
Remind me again why we should abandon our rav and kehilla in chutz learetz where we are encouraged to learn Torah and be mikayim mitzvos, and make “Aliyah” to a godless secular erev rav country that hates us like poison and wants to see us dead?!
Although there is no excuse for such behavior, perhaps a little cheshbon hanfesh is in order. Perhaps give them some reasons to like chareidim.
I look – and am – quite Chareidy. I have personally been accosted violently by a police officer for having the temerity to walk on Shabbos – with my family – peacefully, on the way to my sister’s house, in the general vicinity of a Hafganah. I smiled and nodded and wished “Shabbat Shalom” to everyone I passed, and when I did so toward this police officer, he ran at me with his baton raised. The look on the his face when he ran at me was positively gleeful. He raised his baton with a vicious expression and only stopped, laughing, when I panicked and ran away with my baby in her stroller.
We need to daven and work for שלום. When there is screaming, fighting, etc., when people clash with police, authorities, a dangerous situation can result ח”ו. De-escalation is a path to seek. גדול השלום.
ה’ ישמרנו, ה’ עוז לעמו יתן, ה’ יברך את עמו בשלום
I hate to be the one to break the extent of the tragedy: IT’S US.
Read the emotions between the lines on all sorts of topics and you will know that we changed. Anybody who thinks their opinions are the same as five or ten years ago is not being honest with themselves. Our outlook is generally in the same spot as before. But oh how the last several years in Israel has remade our dialogue!
Any way you look at it, we are all too tense about what is going on in Eretz Yisrael. Just breath deeply and when we exhale use our breath to thank Hashem for the large matters as well as the small ones.
Beis dovid how do bnei yeshiva go about exactly fighting against the idf soldiers where does this take place is it in Gaza Uganda please let us know do you have any aerial footage
Who feels the hashmonaim of yesteryear would of joined today’s idf? Or would be generals in today’s idf with scalped heads and a tattoo or two? Who thinks so? loads of yidden who live in Israel and abroad. Timeyim beyad tahorim the tahorim means the idf zeidim beyad oskei toratecha means the idf. they are not the zeidim they are the oskei toratecha and that’s how we end up with the hashmonaim brigade
You can’t make it up. The first people the hashmonaim would have wiped out would have been the idf. With one hand behind their back.
RebEmes, HaKatan, As you continue to disgrace the kedoshim by calling Jews Nazis, your chelek in Gehinnom grows.
I think those officer’s behavior is absolutely reprehensible. But it’s important to understand where they are coming from before they judge them. They probably have seen their fellow soldiers crushed under the weight of constant fighting against our genocidal enemy, and see the Charedim fight tooth and nail to sit out the fight. They are angry and in pain. That’s very understandable. What’s not acceptable is how they were unable to control their anger and pain, and what actions it caused them. It’s not acceptable that their pain causes them to hate other Jews. But it’s important not to let this snowball out of control… they don’t hate frum people, they don’t despise Charedim (in theory), they are not Nazis. They are angered, pained, and yes, even hate their brothers who refuse to come to their aid and help shoulder the burden against our enemy who wants to destroy us all.
If and I say, IF this story is true, where are the gedolim of E”Y to call for a massive protest? Is there not a concept of Kovod Hatorah? Sitting in a beis Medrash is not in all cases the proper response. Where is the rally of ALL Beni Torah?
So here is a Rav of a yeshiva, who does national service, and is beaten cause he wears a black kippah? What would make this even more staggering is that he was wearing a kippah seruga.
The hatred that is being spewed by the chilonim (and by some on the dati side) is appalling. I’m not saying the chareidim are innocent, but this level of thuggery against your own people is a new low.
DrYidd is right that one shouldn’t equate the current government with nazis, but what other western democracy would do such a thing? Not even londonistan or France would the local authorities take a Jew out of his car and beat him.
@simcha613-hit the nail on the head. If the chilonim would only understand the power of limud Hatorah, and that am Yisroel’s strength is through that limud Hatorah and mitzvos. But unfortunately, they don’t.
DrYidd [sic],
Since you pander & absolve nearly every other kind of serious sinning situation,who else besides them inherits Gehinom in your catalog?