JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A member of the Jerusalem Faction, a group which does not recognize the authority of the army to register yeshiva students, was arrested by military police as he attempted to leave Israel and visit tombs of tzadikim in Eastern Europe. The yeshiva student was tried by a military tribunal as a deserter and sentenced to 15 days in jail.
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Before entering the jail, the student declared that he does not eat any food without the hechsher (supervision) of the Badatz- Eda Chareidis. However the military officers took no notice of his request and did not give him food with the requisite hechsher. Moreover the yeshiva student was placed in a room with a television despite stressing that as a yeshiva student he cannot be in a room with television. The student requested time and again to be given the food he requested and a room without television but was ignored each time.
After repeatedly being denied these basic requirements, the student’s lawyers, Menachem Stauber and Kfir Appelbaum, submitted an urgent petition to the Supreme Court Friday against the commander of the jail, demanding that he be given his basic needs. The petition stated that the youth had not eaten for a week anything other than bread and water.
A Supreme Court judge ruled on the matter before Shabbos and stated that the commander of the jail must provide practical solutions for the student within two hours. The commander then relented and provided the student with food with Badatz kashrus and moved him to a room without a television.
Attorney Stauber said to Kikar Hashabbat that “this is an intolerable situation, that in the state of Israel a yeshiva student must subsist on bread and salt for a week because he keeps kashrus halachically. Thankfully, our petition to the court was enough to convince the prison commander of his serious error and he provided the student with the requisite food immediately.”
The IDF spokesman claimed in response that “the rights of the arrested student to maintain his way of life while serving his sentence were upheld by the prison. The student requested a few days ago from prison staff and received a proper response to his request. He received food with the hechsher of the Eda Chareidis and a room without a television as he requested.”
Creepy secular lefty Israelis.
Perhaps members of the Jerusalem Faction can petition the court to have their sentences served in Otisville.
More proof that zionists goal is to eradicate Torah yet young israel “synagogues” say a tefila for the Medina as does this so called yeshiva of a university
His real crime is that he and his “faction” didn’t follow the manhigei hador. Yeshiva students are supposed to register and get an exemption. JF doesn’t “recognize” the army? The rabbonim who negotiated such exemptions apparently do. And they’ve established a derech. Follow it.
whos hechsher does the bread have?
If they didn’t serve him Cholent Thursday night he should report it to the UN!
whos hecsher does the bread have?
He went to visit Eastern Europe in the middle of the zman? That’s a yeshiva boy? The Zionists here were just Shluchei d’rachmana and he was punished for bitul Torah. Midah k’neged midah. The mishnah says פת במלח תאכל. HKBH taught him, “you want to be m’vatel Torah? פת במלח תאכל. I hope he learned his lesson.
Creepy Zionists
Probably didn’t let him go to Ge’ula for falafel erev shabbos either.
I hope he got very dry bread so he should not get any pleasure from army food….
Speaking of his unmet “requirements,” how about demanding a woman in his cell so he can check and possul the length of her skirt?
Please note that he was not denied kosher food. He just wasn’t allowed to pick the heksher.
The fact that he even had a Hava Amina that he would have the right to pick his preferred heksher shows that he knows he’s in a Jewish State.
I am not bothered by this. He went out of his way to commit a crime. Then he refused to eat.