The family of Avraham Ben Dayan, the newlywed avreich who was arrested on Motzei Shabbos, told Kikar H’Shabbat that he was not permitted to lay tefillin on Sunday morning.
In a conversation with family members shortly before Shekiah, Ben Dayan said he requested several times to lay tefillin, but his requests were denied by those in charge at the facility. Family members expressed profound shock that in the State of Israel, a religious person is denied the ability to perform the most basic mitzvah and voiced serious concern about kashrus conditions and maintaining his religious lifestyle during detention.
Ben Dayan was detained near Ofakim after the car he was traveling in was stopped for inspection by a police officer. While the initial reason for stopping the vehicle was that one passenger was not wearing a seatbelt, the check revealed that Ben Dayan was wanted by military police for draft evasion, and he was transferred to custody.
With the help of Attorney Shlomo Haddad, family members describe an exhausting odyssey trying to locate Avraham’s whereabouts. They said they were first told he would be released from the Ofakim police station, but it turned out that he had been transferred to military police. From there the search continued between the Beit Hadassah base and Prison 10 in Netanya, with contradictory information provided at each stop about his exact location.
Attorney Haddad contacted the prison officer demanding explanations for the fog surrounding his client’s location and was told that instructions had been received from high-ranking officials not to disclose his precise whereabouts. As of now, the family has still not managed to deliver a basic care package to Ben Dayan, on the grounds that he has not yet had a military hearing—a process that was supposed to take place on Sunday morning.
Finally, on Sunday evening, at 7:41 p.m., the avreich was brought to trial and sentenced to 10 days in military prison.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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9 Responses
This is typical behavior by the Zionist Gestapo. They learned well from their German predecessors.
I wonder which Arab terrorist gets prevented from praying in Israeli prison
Do not we do not allow any individual claiming to be Jewish to call anyone in the Israeli law enforcement whether or not his mother is Jewish to be called a Nazi it is an issur of the greatest severity and many drs and yidds snd other enlightened Jews will sentence you to Gehennom for eternity
Arabs have more rights than religious Jews in Israel. I think every religious yeshiva boy in Israel should come to New York or New Jersey and learn here. Not only do we have big yeshivas here and no one will arrest you for evading a draft but our luxury is the top of the line. Our groceries are incredibly large. I was in one grocery in Lakewood it was tremendous. Luxury stores everywhere and all kosher. Kosher restaurants galore unlike Israel where you can hardly find a kosher restaurant in many areas.
this behaviour by the regime reinforces the need to refuse serving in the israeli army!
You would think that in a country with so many frum people, some would join the military establishment to help ensure basic rights for frum yidden are respected. Why all the moaning from the side lines? You got to be in the game to play.
Follow the law and you don’t have problems in prison. Note he wasn’t in yeshiva when arrested. He doesn’t learn he just doesn’t work and refuses to serve in the military.
Had he followed the law and served he would have had no religious issues.
Joseph Goebbels,
You should be arrested and deported to Germany as a Nazi anti-Semite, just like your close relative was. You’re not even Jewish!
FactsMatter- there were laws also in Sodom and Nazi Germany- “just following the law”