During a follow-up meeting with Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara regarding enforcement of Chareidi conscription, Military Advocate General Itai Ofir presented steps to tighten enforcement.
At the conclusion of the discussion, Baharav-Miara issued an order instructing all state entities to immediately increase criminal and civil-economic enforcement measures against bnei yeshivos.
At the meeting—in a dramatic shift of policy—the police agreed for the first time to assist the military police in carrying out proactive arrests of bnei yeshivos in areas surrounding Chareidi cities and neighborhoods, subject to prior coordination between the IDF and the police.
For now, however, the police still refuse to assist with arrests in Chareidi cities and neighborhoods, saying that such operations require additional manpower that is not currently available.
Until recently, the police maintained they could not provide backup to military police in arresting bnei yeshivos due to manpower shortages. In a previous hearing, the Attorney General rebuked the police, stating that manpower shortages do not justify failing to implement the Supreme Court ruling mandating increased enforcement measures against bnei yeshivos.
It is still unclear which neighborhoods will be classified as “peripheral areas.”
The police’s decision is a dramatic development that increases the likelihood of more violent clashes between Chareidim and police.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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Basically the AG and BAGATZ are running the country and Bibi and the Likud are a bunch of pathetic clowns.
People keep voting for the same politicians expecting different results. I believe Einstein had a name for that…
One should ask why the Hiloni rulers of Israel (they control almost everything other than the Kenesset, suggest Israel is really not a democracy in spite of its claims to be one) are trying so hard to make Neturei Karta into a major player, and do they realize that if they win, Hareidim would be able ally with the Muslim countries to replace the hiloni zionist oligarchy with a government that would be tolerable to hareidim, and intolerable to all secular Israelis (e.g. laws against LGBTQ, laws against abortion, no pork, etc.).
It’s ok. The more the government attacks the young Chareidim the more the Chareidim will see the true colors of these pork eating Zionist. Why do you think it’s gotten to the point where some Chareidim took up spying for Iran and others in israel. They feel this government hates religious Jews. If you don’t go to the army which is a secular indoctrination center then you can’t legally work. Your stuck.