In the third arrest of a Ben Torah this week, a 20-year-old yeshiva bochur, a talmid of a Chabad yeshiva, was arrested late Monday night by the Rosh HaAyin police and handed over to the military police.
The bochur, Ariel Koren, spent the night behind bars and is expected to be brought before a military judge on Tuesday, who will determine the continuation of his proceedings.
It should be noted that the recent arrests were carried out by Israel Police officers, despite statements by Police Chief Danny Levy last week that the police would not take part in the arrests of Chareidi “draft dodgers” or their transfer to military police.
The arrest comes a day after the Chareidi sector was shocked by the incident in which a newlywed avreich was prevented from laying tefillin while in the custody of military police.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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Worser then at the goyim.I every country where they are Jewish soldiers
there is respect and done everything to make them confortable.
B ut in the so called Jewish state its unfortunately worse and worser.No respect no din and dajan.They should be ashamed.All the self hating Jews should be punisehd.
Was the Lubavitcher Rebbe against ANY Yeshiva Bachur serving in the army???
I doubt it. Of course I could be wrong and am not privy to all of his Sichos. However, in general, he wasn’t exactly on the same page as most other Gedolim when it came to what constitutes Bittul Torah.
Eretz yishmael is a real disgrace
There is a way to fight the draft.
We they don’t draft Arabs. You say they don’t trust them. But then why do they allow Arabs to work in hospitals and restaurants and pharmacies. If yeshiva boys held up signs they will spy for Iran if drafted they wont be drafted.
rebEmes, if you want to see a disgrace to humanity look in the mirror. Eretz Yisroel is a gift from HaShem.
Mr. Kinsler,
It’s pathetic that you comment with unfounded assumptions with exaggerated tone about what the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s position would or wouldn’t be with regard to Yeshiva Bachurim and the army, while admitting that you are not privy to know.
Kinsler- he was absolutely for the status quo that got canceled by the court system and the corrupt Attorney General. None of this was an issue until they decided to cause Civil War and torpedo netanyahu’s government. And he’d be against this atrocity
Kinsler:
Was the Lubavitcher Rebbe against ANY Yeshiva Bachur serving in the army???
Yes, he was. He regarded service in the army as a mitzvah, but not only did he insist that Talmud Torah overrides that mitzvah, but he held that a person whose place is in the yeshiva and abandons it to join the army is like a Levi who was assigned to stand at the gates and decides that he would rather join the musicians, or vice versa, which the gemara says is chayav missa.
He stated repeatedly, including directly to IDF soldiers, that the country’s protection comes NOT from the soldiers but from the Bnei Torah. The soldiers’ role is merely to act as Hashem’s tools to implement that protection that is brought about through the Bnei Torah’s learning.
On the other hand, he told the soldiers, they should not feel bad about this, because they also have an advantage over the Bnei Torah, in that they have the mitzvah of literal mesirus nefesh, and the Bnei Torah do not, so they should feel proud of that.
That was the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s attitude to military service.