Military Police arrested a Chareidi “draft dodger” early Monday morning at his home in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem, the first proactive arrest of a ben yeshivah since the start of Operation Roaring Lion.
Following his arrest, he was transferred to military prison, where he is expected to appear before a judge.
The arrest followed the High Court ruling on Sunday, in which the judges demanded that the state sanction Bnei Torah and their families.
In the ruling, Deputy Supreme Court President Justice Noam Sohlberg also slammed the police for halting enforcement actions against draft evaders: “A complete avoidance by the police of exercising its authority, effectively leaving that authority unused, cannot be justified by claims of prioritization, and budgetary constraints or lack of resources are not an excuse,” he wrote.
HaGaon HaRav Dov Landau spoke following the court’s decision, saying: “Bnei yeshivos will not go to the army under any circumstances, neither by coercion nor willingly, whether there is a law or not.”
The Rosh Yeshiva added: “The judicial authorities continue in their wrongdoing; ultimately, the wicked will be held accountable. We will not relate to their decrees—we will ignore them, and they and their decrees will dissipate.”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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Mathematically if all the Torah Jews in Israel would vote, and all the Torah jews of the world come to Israel and vote, they would be hands down the largest and ruling party. Hence in this day and age no matter what the original founders of the state had in mind it is the Torah Jews in Israel who refuse to vote and the Torah Jews of the world who refuse to move to Israel and vote who are solely responsible for the continued secular rule in the state of Israel. In this day and age all the complaints of the anti state of Israel Torah Jews are 100% self inflicted.
Sohlberg ימח שמו וזכרונו
An army with atheistic leftist leaders allowing girls,trans and gays is not a place for a Jew to be.
The religious Israeli society has to wake up from their comfortable alternate reality and must stop being arrogant and self entitled.
We spend all day learning Gemara and sharpen our analytical skills. Yet we are stupid as door nails become we only think about is our own selfishness needs. Look at the Frum magazines and its advertisements. Overpriced indulgence, gluttony of spending on Taiva.
Sinas Chinam of undermining other Jews in business and being “Shul Jews” must end.
Only a tragedy can bring Jews care for one another?
Use your brains to change the system in the government.
It seems very obvious that vast majority of Jews don’t want Mashiach because they are like the Eriv Rav too comfortable.
The jackbooted Zionist Storm Troopers will NEVER defeat the Torah community.
It’s amazing you have some people that read something like this and rejoice I’m so embarrassed that some of these people are in my nation
Duvidf- mathematically you’re right but the Supreme Court still wins no matter how much of a religious majority wins the election, The Gatekeepers control everything. The proof is the current government, mostly righties and religious friendly yet completely powerless
ujm, calling Jews Nazis earns you a permanent place in gehinnom.
Flatbush yid, your place is in Iran before you go to gehinnom.
rebEmes, as a rejoicer, I wish you a lichtege gehinnom
Dr yidd
So you think perverts should be in an army with yeshiva boys.