Gaza – An Israeli woman who married an Arab and lived with him in Gaza returned to Israel through the Erez border crossing today along with her four children.
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The woman, 27, originally form Ashdod, met the Arab-Israeli man a few years ago, and after a while the couple moved to Egypt.
About a year ago, after the woman gave birth to her fourth baby, the couple moved to Rafah, a town located in the southern part of the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave. Shortly thereafter she began complaining to her sisters in Israel of her husband’s abusive behavior, which included physical violence.
Her family turned to the Yad L’Achim organization, which helps rescue Israeli women from “hostile Arab villages” in the Palestinian Authority and sets them up in safe houses around the country, “where they can build new lives for themselves.”
On Tuesday morning she took advantage of the fact that her husband was out of the house, gathered her children and took a cab to the Erez crossing.
During the cab ride her husband phoned her and threatened to kill her if she leaves him. The woman’s sister and brother-in-law greeted her on the Israeli side of the border.
She was interrogated at the Sderot police station and then taken to a safe house.
Yashar Koach to Yad L’Achim for their good work. I hope this sad story is a warning against similar relationships. What are these Israeli women thinking?
I have very little compassion for a Jewish woman who married an arab guy and then complains that she’s being abused by her husband, she shouldve known thats what you get on that side of the fence.
Yad Leachim, you should have been there to prevent the marriage {so should I } if you could.
Now it may be too late. These kids will have a tie with their Muslim father. The mother remains a leftist chiloini, at best. Do we really need the danger of possible spies?
Yes they are Yidden, but one who marries out, must be ostrasized, she had a choice then, we all know that intermarriage is a goodbye to Judaism,[ unless you had money & could buy off the EJF as it seems from other posts on this blog.]
Kids with an Arab Jew hating father, are going to have a hard time blending, & that could cause them, to go back to their father, which doesn’t help the Tzibur at large.
Yad Leachim this is my take, please enlighten me to where I have gone wrong.
Chas Veshalom I feel bad for her & believe in Tshuva, but having children from a chamoir maybe a little Meuvas lo yuchal liskon, zeh haboel eishes ish veholid memena mamzer. This sounds similar.
There is a safehouse for these poor women where they can stay after they escape. The people who run the safehouse help the women get their lives straightened out and offer them classes in Yiddishkeit, which these women were never exposed to in their lives.
Rabbi Yechezkel Shalom raises money for the safehouse. He’s here in Brooklyn now, staying at my house. If anyone would like to meet him, please be in touch with me. at [email protected]. He is a very inspiring man.
I’m sure that its a big mitzva but threr are so many inecint people who didn’t cause this truoble to themselvs and need help
1.Why is so much attention paid to Women who willingly marry Arabs? Does anyone do anything for women who can’t gat a jewish “Get” from their Jewish husbands who refuse to give them one. (Many many out there seeking help). Help save them.
2. Why set up an networks of services to help kids from public schools to become yiden? What is being done for frum kids who are dropping out like flies from yiddishkeit.
3. Why spend millions upon millions to get new baalei tshva from Russia? If you spent a tenth of that you could keep more yiden frum in the community.
Sure all of the above is important. No one is belittling the efforts of these organizations. However, before you outreach elsewhere everything must first be done to hold onto what we have. Then seek new horizons.
I think Yad L’achim is doing a dis-service to our community. If one marries an arab let them stay there. Don’t bring their problems into our comunnity. In years to come this will prove disastrus!!! She is complaining now that her husband is abusive. Hello?!! What did you think?!!!
So if she drove to the border then how does yad leachim get involved here?
B”H she’s out of that hell hole and back with her people. May she and all others receive their complete yeshuah bikarov.
Its really sad but I think these woman need medical help as well, if they were able to live for years with these animals & give birth to 4 children & then to first wake up she needs pills
At least her children will fight in the IDF unlike many of you here sitting in your comfortable chairs and doing nothing to ensure the security of Israel.
#2 where is your compassion? Are you familiar with the details of her relationship? Are you aware that many of these jewish girls come from backgrounds with no family support, and are often orphans? Maybe you should be asking how either the israeli society, her community or her religious brethren failed her.
Chazak Chazak Venishazaik
If any of your daughters would such a thing you would all want the organisations to get involved but for some reason nobody cares if its someones kid that you don’t know I think we are all laking in our ahavas yisroel
If Yad L’Achim save these women and if these women want to become frum, then I’m all for it. But if they want to “use” this organization to help them out of a bad situation they got themselves into and they have no interest in frumkeit at all, then let a chiloni organization rescue them. Yes, we all make mistakes, but some mistakes are way too serious, and if they’re not willing to make amends in their irreligious lifestyle, don’t waste your time and money.
What a poor use of limited community resources. think of all the yesomos almanos and ill people who are ovdai hashem and have had misfortune strike them, wouldnt that be a better use of our money? If kiruv is your thing , then think of:
There are 4.5 million Jews in Israel who dont know who Avrhom Avinu is, do we have to spend money on people who marry the enemy? Stupid, stupid, stupid Yad Lachim
Where are all those wonderful people at Lev L’achim (which was founded as a competition to Yad l’achim)??? i haven’t heard anything about them in ages!!
Besides fundraiser, of course!
For those who are so quick to proverbially throw these women under the bus, didn’t these girls grow up in the treif abomination that is Zionism? So for them to be seduced by a fellow Israeli (Arab) is really not that difficult a circumstance to imagine.
I’m not saying it is expected that an Israeli girl of any stripe would do so, but please have a heart and try to understand the likely circumstances. If you relegate Judaism to relic status and make the State your idol, what’s to stop you from socializing with other citizens of the State and then taking the next logical step and marrying one?
This is a tremendous silver lining (read: HKB”H’s chessed) in the dark cloud that is galus: the ability to understand we have a Torah and therefore have different obligations than our Bnai Noach neighbors do. However, in Israel, unfortunately, if one is enamored by the fallacy of Zionism and all the loss of Torah that entails, ch”v, it seems very easy to lose sight of that most critical “asher bachar banu mikal ha’amim vinasan lanu es toraso”.
And if those condemning these girls/women were to have been put in their shoes, what’s their guarantee they’d have done any better in that situation?
For all you emotional posters above, I sugest you are meshadech with those kids. Yes your children marry them. Not only would you be offended if a shadchan was to recomend one of them you would be outright angry, & have a million reasons to be so.
Shloimis Bas Divri was the only Israelite in Egypt to marry out of the faith, she was widowed when Moshe used a Sheim on her Egyptian spouse. BTW it was B4 Matan Torah, I am not aware of the prohibition if any, it just wasn’t accepted, even though we were the slaves.
What was her son guilty of? Nothing his mother married out, B4 the prohibition, never the less throughout the Midbar he was a nomad, he didn’t belong to any shevet. He wanted to pitch his tent at Shevet Don, because his mother was from Don, they wouldn’t allow him to, so he went to the Beth Din, the Av Beth Din was Moshe Rabeinu, who paskened that he isn’t from Don, & cannot pitch his tent there, so he had to pitch his tent alone, he got very upset & started cursing & blasfeming, & was given a death sentance. A blog won’t decide, I think we need a Sanhedrin on this. I feel too for them, but who paskened this?
It is troubling that she left the relationship because he was abusive. So if he wasnt abusive, its okay to live with the terrorists?
Yad Lachim should have left her there. No pure hearted jew does what she did.
what some of you dont understand is that these women are victims of not being raised with the proper education to make proper choices. please dont blame them – cuz if they had your education, of course they wouldn’t , its a terrible rachmonus, and yes, we do need to do anything in our power to help a fellow yid without making any cheshbonos. every jew deserves our compassion and help. please dont judge. just give, sympathize, and look deeper, and appreciate and help those who are doing something about it.
I agree and disagree first of all in certain arab states they kindap jewish girls and this kids really need help to escape but a women who marries a arab on her own will and than wakes up and cries out…. The problem is that this israelis are so down and pist of their lives they forget about their prestige and as always for jewish girls to marry only jews no matter what position they are in
Just like Hashem had mercy on her. We all make mistakes, I’m sure you’ve lied in your life, does that mean that I shouldn’t do anything to forgive you to help you not lie again?
Most women who marry arabs are from abusive homes where they had little love from their paretns, let along any connection to Jewishness,
All of the people we rescue are people who want to be rescued. Gedolim includng harav Shmuel Wosner have ruled it to be Pidyon Shvuyim Min HAtorah. Who would argue? How sad to not feel bad for another jew in their plight. Yad L’Achim gives the rescued proper psychological treatment to ensure they adapt well tot heir surroundings. Boruch hashem we are successful .
3) Yad L’Achim works non-stop to try and ensure the problem never starts. Every single day there are lectures being gie in girls school throughout israel where we discuss the problem. We deal with hundreds of cases a year that are in the development stages to prevent further problems. Kiruv! Thank you everyone for your support!
Rav wosner paskened Yad L’achim is mikayem Pidyon Shvuyim Min Hatorah
Do you go to shul on Yom kippur? Hashem forgives even the worst aveiros and these women are beshogeg based on their upringing. This is gedolims psak not mine. So if you go to shul on yom kippur and ask for forgiveness upport Yad L’achim
I once heard a woman speak that was rescued through Yad L’achim, She explained that many girls that go into these arabic marriages come from very very poor, broken or abusive homes. These arab men come and charm the girls and promise them a better life. Usuaully they go to malls where teenagers like to hang out. She said by marrying an arab, being young and innocent, she thought she had nothing to lose. She said for the first year he did try to do everything to please her, and then once he was safely in arab territory did his true colors show and did he strt physically and emotionally abusing her. She said that at first she thought this is what marriage is all about, so she served him like a slave until she couldnt handle it anymore. (remember we are not talking about typical BY girls that come from fine happy homes)
This woman goes around to schools and speaks to girls telling them to keep away at any cost. They try to prevent these things from happening. No one should ever know how teenagers are suffering and are just looking for something better…
i think they should let them find gilad shalit theyd do a better job
People mess up and sometimes in very big ways. But as Jewish people we except them back with open arms.
Remember the children are jewish, its a wonderful thing that they have a chance at ajewish life.