JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A chareidi couple from Antwerp attempted to pass through the green route at the Ben Gurion airport customs checkpoint but were brought back for suitcase checking, which revealed that they were carrying 868 packets of imported cigarettes and 1,430 packets of tobacco, worth a total of 400,000 NIS. The taxes on these items amount to 250,000 NIS.
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בני זוג חרדים מבלגיה, יהודה ויהודית וייס, עברו בשבוע שעבר במסלול הירוק בנתב”ג, והתבקשו ע”י בודק המכס להעביר את מזוודותיהם במכשיר השיקוף. אז התברר כי ברשותם 868 פקטים של סיגריות תוצרת חוץ
ו-1,430 יחידות טבק לחימום, בשווי של כ-400,000 ₪, שסך המסים עליהם הוא כ-250,000 ₪. pic.twitter.com/0rf6PYS6mX— מאחורי הפרגוד (הרשמי) (@moshepargod) July 2, 2023
The couple, parents of 12 children and expecting another child, were arrested and released on bail. The customs authorities stated that the couple’s suitcases did not have ID tags as required in order to try and dupe the customs workers.
The Rishon Letzion Magistrates court set bail at 50,000 NIS for each of the couple, as well as a third party guarantee of 50,000 NIS and a 20,000 NIS deposit for each of the suspects. The couple’s lawter claimed that they are foreign residents who come once or twice a month to visit relatives and have a large family to maintain in Belgium. Judge Gil Gabbai issued a restraining order preventing them from leaving the country until Sunday, 9th of July.
Not only stealing from Israeli government, but also helping fellow Jews to commit a slow and painful suicide.
Recently read a horrific statistic, in the last 40 years it is estimated that over 4,000 frum jews died of lung cancer before their 55th birthday.
If the lawyer is there to help he sure is helping the prosecution, lol. It takes substantial money and koach to leave your family in Belgium and visit EY every two weeks.
Pretty heavy smokers, those guys. Should probably cut down.
What makes people think they can get away with this sort of thing ?
Maybe at the 5th kid if they realized they don’t have the means to support them they should have stopped?
The real culprit is the parents of this couple who did not teach their kids a trade. Listen to the Gemorah – Don’t be a chuchem.
According to Halacha, one is obligated to obey the laws of the country that they are in; that being said, this couple violated the law, by attempting to smuggle in scores of cigarettes and tobacco, in violation of Israeli law. I wish them well, and hope that their legal problems will be resolved; however, they must obey the law, and refrain from doing something similar again.
This poor hymishe couple has to pay for shtreimel after shtreimel as their kids grow up. You know how expensive they are? So they needed to make a parnusseh, and went into the import/export business. You have a problem with such enterprising chevreh?
rotflmao!
The unbelievably stupid comments are very depressing, hopefully we won’t have another mabul.
It’s ok to illegally smuggle cigarettes because Hareidim who live in Israel don’t recognize Israel?? Idiots
It’s cute that their names are yehuda and yehudit
That is a boatload of cigarettes shown in that video. Did they actually think that the scanning machines won’t find that?? How ridiculous!
What’s mind-blowing is, that VIN has a Report Lashon Harah button atop every comment, yet this article itself – by them reporting a tweet with full names – is one piece of large scale Lashon Harah!
Sorry! They played Russian Roulette and lost! Worse though, they ruined for all of us honest people! Some of the comments above are disgraceful. Going into the 3 weeks, our inner Sinaas Chinam is boundless. Shame on us. Why can’t we refrain from such venomous, unnecessary stereotype comments? סייג לחכמה שתיקה
That was just in Israel alone
Sad
The family said it didn’t happen & this is just another attempt of the evil Zionists to destroy a Frum family.
Who are you going to believe? The evil Zionists or a Charedi family? Why oh why do we face such persecution?
why do you have to mention “chareid” couple. I arrived once to Israel, there was somebody stopped at the airport with two suitcase of cigarettes. It wasn’t mentioned anyplace.