Charedie who was arrested for Draft Dodging and was supported by Gedoie Hador was found Vacationing in Thailand

 

An embarrassing incident occurred for the leaders of the campaign on behalf of the “Prisoners of the Torah world”, a vociferous group protesting the arrests of yeshiva students over the IDF draft. A young man from a Charedi family in southern Israel, who was arrested at Ben Gurion Airport just last year on suspicion of draft evasion, was documented on social media vacationing in Thailand.

The young man’s arrest last year sparked numerous protests by extremist Charedi groups demanding his release. Members of the Jerusalem Faction wrote about him at the time.

“A Charedi draft evader has been arrested, a married yeshiva student living in southern Israel and still within the ‘first year’ after his wedding. He was detained at the airport and transferred to military prison. Protests are being organized near the prison, and preparations are underway for further demonstrations in the event that his detention is extended,” 

It later became clear that the “prisoner of the Torah world” had indeed grown up in a Charedi home, but was not actually a yeshiva student and instead worked for a living.Despite this, he received broad support from leading Charedi rabbis. Rabbi Avraham Selim, a member of the Sephardic council of Torah sages, wrote to him:

 “To the dear young man, we are all praying and hoping that you will be released from detention soon. Fortunate are you for being seized because of words of Torah.”

Rabbi Zvi Friedman, one of the leaders of the Jerusalem Faction, wrote to the young man during his detention:

 “You merited to sanctify G-d’s name and to declare before the investigators that you aspire to be a Jew who observes Torah and mitzvot. Therefore, you must sacrifice yourself so as not to enlist in the army, which serves as a melting pot for abandoning religious observance and for a secularism worse than death.”

Even after his release, the young man received celebratory welcomes from prominent rabbis while dressed in traditional Charedi clothing.

Yet other pictures, including his own Whatsapp picture, depict him in very different garb, and the picture from his vacation aroused significant protests, with one woman commenting:

 “Is this why my husband had to do another tour of reserve duty now?”.