A yeshivah bochur was arrested overnight Monday in a planned police ambush on Highway 383.
The bochur, Meri Sabag, a talmid of the Darchei Ish Yeshivah, was on his way back to the yeshiva at 2 a.m. after visiting his parents to help them when the car he was in was stopped at a surprise checkpoint between Beit Shemesh and Moshav Tirosh.
The police officer entered his details into the system, and after he was identified as a “draft evader,” called the military police. The officers then used deceptive tactics in order to deter Sabag from calling the protest hotline, telling him that the military police did not plan on arresting him but would only issue an official summons to the draft office.
Within fifteen minutes, an unmarked car arrived, three plainclothes officers jumped out along with a soldier, who handcuffed Sabag, put him in their car, and sped away from the scene.
He was taken to the Yoav military detention camp.
Sources from his yeshiva issued an urgent call to bochurim and avreichim: “Don’t be naive. The system operates in all types of ways.”
In the wake of the arrest, Peleg Yerushalmi warned of protests in the coming days.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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10 Responses
Again a Sfardi Bochur…, have they not learned, it’s not going to help them in any way?!
Arresting a draft-evader is not an ambush; it is the law
One does not need to side with peleg and their ilk to recognize that there is a form of malice happening here, ambushing, tricking a bochur. Conversely, one needn’t be an avid Zionist or supporter of drafting bochurim to see that Peleg represents a severe departure from the derech of Torah. I am embarrassed by them. The Chilul Hashem they cause is unforgiveable. And I want police to deal with them in a serious (not abusive) manner. If they wish to chant and gather, that is their right. AT the moment they become a public menace, blocking traffic, committing acts of violence, they have disgraced the Torah. I do not advocate torture, but some jail time would be desirable. The Israeli government needs to resolve the draft issue. They also need to create appropriate deterrents to the sort of violence these goons commit.
Dr.yidd celebrates the end of Torah study and calls for defiance of our great gedolim. May his name be erased for eternity and all those who follow such a wicked disgusting person
Why are the Israeli Military authorities so quick to release these draft dodgers? Let them protest outside an Army jail, round up a few hundred of the protesters and keeping them in jail without any privileges, like special Kosher food, the Rabbanut food is all Kosher, for a few months on a rotating basis would make their friends think twice before simply refusing to register.
It’s time to shut down the Zionist Entity.
ujm
The shame is all yours. what happened to chaverim kol yisroel?
Street demonstrators belong in yeshiva- not on the streets( no matter how you feel about army service) let the parents demonstrate
Joseph Goebbels,
Which gadol are you quoting in your “shut down” post, your fake posek “Harav Yitzchok Ehrentreu”?
Your close relative was in the SS so you’re not even Jewish!
Wow and we wonder why the Redemption hasn’t come? Because many Jews are worse than our enemies
rebEmes, it may surprise you but many of my chiddushai Torah have been published and gedolai olam have called me to discuss complex halakhic topics where I have acknowledged expertise. Those who curse me will enjoy a long and painful stay in gehinnom. But at least you will be with your friends.