10 bochurim remain in custody following a Tuesday evening breach of an IDF commander’s residence by Chareidi demonstrators, after the Ashkelon Magistrate’s Court rejected efforts to secure their release on Wednesday.
The incident unfolded when activists affiliated with Peleg forcibly entered the home of Brig. Gen. Yuval Yamin, head of the IDF’s Military Police. The general’s family was inside the house at the time, though Yamin himself was absent. Police said the rioters breached the yard, caused property damage, and disrupted the neighborhood.
25 suspects were arrested on the scene. By Wednesday afternoon, most had been released, but 10 remain in detention after Judge Yaniv Ben Harush ruled that the evidence justified their continued confinement. The suspects face charges of assaulting a police officer, malicious damage to property, criminal trespass, and unlawful assembly.
In his written ruling, Judge Ben Harush drew a sharp distinction between protected protest and lawlessness. “While every person in a democratic country is granted the right to express his protest on a given issue in public dispute,” he wrote, “the respondents’ behavior exceeded the limits of legitimate protest.” He characterized the breach as “an organized initiative to reach the home of a military police officer and intimidate him,” noting that the intrusion “sowed fear and terror among his family members.”
The judge extended detention by a single day, declining the prosecution’s request for a five-day extension.
Defense attorney Menachem Stauber, representing the detainees, mounted a forceful counterargument in court. He alleged that the Ashkelon police station commander had subjected the arrested men to verbal abuse, calling them “terrorists, worse than terrorists,” and comparing them to Hamas’s Nukhba terrorist unit. Stauber argued that property damage at Yamin’s home resulted from police tactics—officers pushing demonstrators—rather than deliberate destruction by protesters.
Stauber characterized the detention order as fundamentally illegitimate. “When a remand request is born out of an atmosphere of hatred and dehumanization, it constitutes a vengeful arrest rather than a legal one,” he stated. “It is unacceptable for a police officer to pre-designate targets and exploit the nation’s most painful tragedies to justify depriving protesters of their liberty.”
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Now extend the detention much longer. These thugs are not warriors on behalf of the Torah. They are not pleading their cause. They are committing violent crimes and whitewashing them as Torah Law. Shame on them. They behave like animals. Their cause might be better served if they were not steeped in violence and behavior unbecoming of a ben Torah. The cause they purport to press might be a worthy one. But their behavior simply doesn’t represent Torah.
For accuracy, the protesters did not enter the home.
The home is surrounded by a yard, and the protesters moved from the sidewalk to the yard which was open.
As there was grass on the ground, some of the grass was flattened.
This was in response to this IDF commander’s directive, two nights previous, to his men to force a family in Gilo to open their door, in middle of the night threatening to otherwise break the door down. The men had no warrant to enter, but due to their empty threats the door was opened the police raided the property and arrested the yeshiva bochur.
Who sowed fear and terror to whom?
volf, draft dodgers should be incarcerated
What a country. They detain exactly ten bochurim, so they have a minyan.
הודו לה’ כי טוב כי לעולם חסדו
Only Leftist thugs can protest by Netanyahu’s home. Chareidim are not permitted to protest in the Zionist totalitarian State.
Stop calling Miara-dodgers draft dodgers. The government didn’t promote this. A lefty nazi did without regard for the elected officials
Joseph Goebbels,
“Chareidim are not permitted to protest”.
That’s right, those who are supposedly learning Torah should not act like “leftist thugs” but you wouldn’t understand, due to your Nazi bloodline.
> The home is surrounded by a yard, and the protesters moved from the sidewalk to the yard which was open.
I wonder what the halocha is about this? I would appreciate information what yeshivas graduated this anshei chayil and what are their rabbeim saying about it. Asking letoeles – I, and public in general, need to know where not to send banim and whom not to give banos to.
what a way to influence folks on the draft issue! invade a private residence and expect support and no arrest.or block entry to yerushalayim preventing folks from going to work,care for sick/elderly, or just get home.odd, but those blocking streets opted to skip yeshiva. bein hazmanim is over- not for them. all of this while soldiers are maimed and killed protecting the land. they ought to teach introspection in the yeshivas these hooligans are skipping
It’s funny that just after boys that are in Yeshiva learning get drawn out and arrested and then people complain why aren’t the protesters learning. Some things go over people’s head