Following the publication of a State Comptroller’s report revealing that thousands of terrorists and unlawful combatants were released due to prison overcrowding, MK Meir Porush has sharply criticized the government’s priorities, calling the situation “a moral bankruptcy.”

In a letter sent to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yisroel Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, and Justice Minister Yariv Levin, the Degel HaTorah lawmaker pointed to the report’s findings that security prisoners were released back to Gaza because of a lack of prison space.

Porush described the situation as “systemic bankruptcy” and said it reflects “hypocrisy that cries out to Heaven.”

Contrasting the release of terrorists with the government’s efforts to arrest yeshiva bochurim and avreichim over the draft issue, Porush questioned what he described as a distorted set of priorities.

“How can it be,” Porush wrote, “that the state suddenly finds the resources to throw young Jewish men into prison whose only ‘crime’ is their dedication to the Torah of Israel, while at the same time endangering the security of its citizens by releasing terrorists under the claim that ‘there is no room in the prisons’?”

Porush argued that while authorities claim prison overcrowding prevents the continued detention of terrorists, they are simultaneously investing significant manpower, budgets, and enforcement resources to locate, arrest, and incarcerate bnei yeshiva.

He concluded by calling on the ministers to intervene immediately and halt what he described as the “persecution” of the Torah world, urging the government to direct its enforcement efforts toward imprisoning Hamas terrorists rather than yeshiva students.

“The Torah world will not remain silent in the face of this distortion of justice and morality,” Porush wrote.

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