“You have no idea what the little girls are going through there,” said Esther, a grandmother who managed to bring her five-year-old granddaughter back to Israel. “The girl said about her sister, ‘Soon she’ll be 12, so she’ll become a bride.’ It’s unthinkable!”
According to testimonies revealed during the hearing, children in the cult suffer severe abuse, including solitary confinement, starvation, and even rape. Special concern was raised over young girls who are forced into marriage at age 12, against their will and in violation of the law.
“Time is working against the children, and action must be taken quickly to rescue them,” Esther stressed to the Committee.
Orit Cohen Amir, representing the families, criticized the authorities for ongoing delays: “For 15 years we’ve been told it’s complicated, it’s confidential. Not a single child has returned because of the actions of those in this room.”
n response, Dr. Tamar Rozmarin Ze’ev from the Prime Minister’s Office stated, “In the past week, criminal proceedings have accelerated, and we are holding regular status discussions among all relevant government ministries.”
Committee Chairman MK Gilad Kariv emphasized the need to speed up bureaucratic processes.
“I’m under the impression that the State authorities are making efforts, but there are still gaps,” he said. He noted that “significant behind-the-scenes efforts are underway,” but stressed that “critical bureaucratic processes must be sped up.”
Following the session, a NIS 1.5 million aid package was allocated to assist families working to rescue the children. The support plan was developed in cooperation with the Prime Minister’s Office and the Jewish Agency.
At the same time, the Foreign Ministry is recruiting personnel to bolster operations at the Israeli embassy in Guatemala and is engaging with counterparts in other countries to advance efforts to bring the children home.
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There is a large scale but quiet Chareidi effort placing these kids with adoptive families in the US and Israel. Ami is not at all representative of the public opinion in this matter and I would suspect that they themselves have seen the light by this point.
The Israeli government is BH filling a major role as well.
This isn't fair. Satmar, tosh and chabad all have representatives on the ground helping the survivors and have spent a lot more then 1.5 million nis.
While it’s true that Frankfurter was being idiotic in shilling for Lev Tahor at Ami Magazine, and you were justified in bashing him, he appears to have done teshuva with a recent Ami report that a group of Central American gerim (megayer before Lev Tahor arrived on the scene) were attacked, robbed & chased out of the area by a Lev Tahor mob as punishment for not being 100% obedient to Helbrans’s son & successor. You are totally off base however that only Zionists are involved in rescuing the kids, not Charedim. The Dzikov-Melitzer Rebbe of Monsey flew down to Guatemala with a group of askonim to run emergency rescues from on site
Great! let's jump from one cult to another! Looks like these kids have no chance!
DIN - this header is exactly why your blog is untrustworthy.
AMI magazine is a lone voice in the charedi world on this subject and even they have pulled back from their earlier support for this abuse cult.
No sane charedi backs them and many from across multiple communities have contributed millions of dollars to help victims of the cult. I know this from firsthand experience dealing with one of the families trapped in it.
But you act as if ALL CHAREDIM are diehard supporters.
This makes it clear that nothing that you say is trustworthy. You're not an advocate but a gossiper.
Jumping to the fascistic zionistic cult instead would be better?
5:56
I stand by my headline!
Lev Tahor have moved countless times and paid for property in many places! Who supported them all along? Feeding hundreds every single day costs a pretty penny!
who paid for all that? Who paid for them travelling? Who paid for the properties?
Ami is not a "lone voice" at all, AMI is just a reflection of the rest of the Chareidie Cults who support and supported Helbrans
You are either living in a cave or being disingenuous!
Far Far better and I'm not a Zionist!
Your SO right -follow the money- without that they would have long' withered on the vine' and been gone!
someone or something is keeping these monsters alive !
With all due respect, Satmar and Tosh did nothing for years, it is only recently that they have gotten involved. It was a group of Lubavitchers that did nearly all the work rescuing victims from this terrible cult and bringing some of the leadership to justice,
Your headline is correct, you have nothing to apologize for. I have been involved with the rescue of lev tahor victims for years, we brought tremendous proof to frankfurter over the years asking him to correct his ways and he refused.
I don't live in a cave, nor am I disingenuous. That you stand by headline is nothing new either. You're perfectly consistent. And that's why I wrote that you're not credible. You make broad and unsubstantiated assumptions about a group of Jews called "Charedim" that encompasses a wide variety of groups and subcultures, and expect to be taken seriously.
The only thing that is apparent and true is your unhealthy שנאת ישראל. Everything else is subject to question and skepticism.
lol someone else is living in a deep cave and his name rimes with shtusisneies
Can you ever admit when you are wrong? You have to know that Helbrans was misrepresenting himself to schnor, creating letterheads with the names of some Chassidussen that he impersonated. It doesn’t matter if a couple of Satmar shoitim knowingly were involved with the fraudulent fundraising. They are a super tiny minority despite your attempts to amplify them into a hamoin am.
The ones that promoted שנאת ישראל were anti-Zionist Chareidim that called everyone who disagreed with their archaic SHIT'as, "Apikorsim" and "Meenim" ! and the ones, The Charedim that called the miraculous victory in 1967 and the capture of the Kotel, Mearas Hamachpielah, Kever Rachel.... the Samach Mem!
How a Jew who supposedly "loved other Jews" can write these shuttism and hate towards other Jews is beyond me.
The Christians say, "those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones!
Clean your own house first before you label me a שונאי ישראל!
I'm the one laughing, you follow my blog and I want to personally thank you for that, yesterday we hit 17,000 hits! Thank You!
Classic DIN
When the debate starts to turn against him-change subject promptly
“Shtus iz Nies”! Good one! You have a way with words! Thanks for the good laugh! I haven’t laughed that heartily in a while!
The idea of Zionism is to change the yid the one they called disgusting. Yes din rebbe rabbi jabotinsky called the Jew disgusting. DIN you and your ilk of Zionists are the biggest anti semites us yidden have seen in a long time. The Zionists are responsible for the the rockets being shot into Israel and for all the yidden that does in Israel. Please tell me how many Jews have to die for you to be happy?? Go with your fat friend Ben gvir and get out of our land!!! Hashem doesn’t want you and the Zionists in eretz yisroel just leave already go to Uganda and kick the Ugandians out of there homes but don’t claim to be Jews!
10:06
I was debating if I should allow 10:06 the "apikoras" and Meen's comment!
Decided to post it and answer
(10:06)The idea of Zionism is to change the yid the one they called disgusting. Yes din rebbe rabbi jabotinsky called the Jew disgusting.
DIN: First of all you are dragging a fight that happened over 90 years ago! Second of all Benyomin Zev Jabotinsky z"l never said that, but the Satmar Rebbe said al lot worse calling Gedoieli Hador who supported Members in the Knesset "Apirorsim and Meenim"
(10:06)DIN you and your ilk of Zionists are the biggest anti semites us yidden have seen in a long time. The Zionists are responsible for the the rockets being shot into Israel and for all the yidden that does in Israel.
(DIN) Notice that "Hashem" doesn't come into the picture with these Charedim! This meshuganar is blaming Zionists for Missiles shot against themselves! This would be laughable it it weren't so tragic!
(10"06) Please tell me how many Jews have to die for you to be happy??
DIN: Ask that question to the Satmar Rebbbe who said that the miracles that happened in 1967 was the work of the "Samach Mem" he believed that the saving of Jews comes not from the RBS"O but from the devil! Go figure!
(10:06)Go with your fat friend Ben gvir and get out of our land!!!
DIN: "our land?" the land that Zionists fought for and gave their lives for, you want those who fought in the wars to get out of "our" land!
It's not YOUR land, YOUR Gedoilim were the Meraglim who didn't want the land! Your Gedoilim said the "Samach Mem" won those wars!
(10:06)Hashem doesn’t want you and the Zionists in eretz yisroel just leave already go to Uganda and kick the Ugandians out of there homes but don’t claim to be Jews!
DIN: Is this guy serious? The Satmars built an Uganda called KJ, and the Skverer built New Square as their very own Uganda!
All this while the Zionists are fighting for Eretz Yisrael!
Hashem, according to the Torah wants the Zionists in Eretz Yisrael! Not In the Satmar and Skver Ugandas! Not only did the Zionists fight for Eretz Yisrael but they also built it as a home for close to 8 million Jews! Not on;y that they built a country where the most Torah in the world is being learned!
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