Shas MK Yaakov Margi on Wednesday visited the home of yeshiva bochur Yair Saadeh in Be’er Sheva, after he was brutally pulled from his sickbed by military police and thrown into prison while suffering from a high fever.
The father, Moshe Saadeh, a disabled IDF veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and treats post-traumatic soldiers at Beit HaLochem in Be’er Sheva, expressed his great pain over the outrageous conduct of the military police.
Saadeh said that his son called him from his yeshiva, saying he was sick, so he went to pick him up and brought him home. “He got into bed, and I also went to sleep. Suddenly, close to midnight, there was knocking on the door. My daughters looked through the peephole, but the officers blocked it. My wife asked who it was, and they answered, ‘Police.’ Frightened, she opened the door, and dozens of military police officers entered—by my estimate, about 30 officers.”
He added that he woke up in a panic, which was very triggering for him because of his post-trauma. He added that an officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel who took part in the arrest behaved rudely and brutally toward his son and the other members of his family.
He said in a broken voice, “I am very hurt by this—shattered. How can it be that this is how a Ben Torah is treated in the State of Israel?”
“To bring dozens of military police officers? For what? He is simply a yeshiva bochur. I am an IDF-disabled veteran—we aren’t people who fight or protest, but this was extremely jarring for me. That’s how they treat someone who’s sick? They saw he was sick with a fever—so why did they treat him like that?”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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I heard many years ago from a real
חשובע
person, that one of the ways that a person gets punished for his Aveiros, Hashem takes away his
שכל
and this can explain why the officers are arresting a Yeshiva Bachur in such a cruel way.
The army, they simply lost their mind.
treated as 3rd class citizens; 1. chareidy 2. Ben Torah 3. Sefardy – you want to call it “the only democracy in the middle east”…
These evil heretics have nothing better to do at midnight than to send 30!! of their storm-troopers to take away one of their citizens, sick in bed, whose father even served in their shmad army. At least 25 of those could have gone to sleep and served in their army the next day instead, if they were really short on soldiers. Such cruel evil.
The answer to the father’s question is obvious. The wicked Zionists have always acted horrifically towards the Sefardic Jews, treating those Jews as inferior/subhuman. As well, those wicked Zionists want all Jews to convert from Judaism to Zionism/nationalism, which is the express purpose of their shmad army. Yes, the wicked Zionists view a Ben-Torah as what he in fact is: a living repudiation of their idolatrous life-blood of Zionism-as-replacement-for-Judaism.
I bet that’s how Palestine would treat its citizens
“ben torah”? is that a new kind of jew? one that has the same entitlements as arab israelis?
shloime:
No, it’s actually the original type of Jew, the pre-Zionist traditional and genuine Jew, as in Yaakov ish tam yosheiv ohalim, as opposed to the Zionist New-Hebrew Nietzchian Esav-wannabe warrior replacement for Jew.