A political controversy erupted after Shas chairman Aryeh Deri and United Torah Judaism chairman Yitzhak Goldknopf visited Prison 10, where haredi yeshiva students detained for failing to comply with military conscription orders are being held.
The visit, intended as a show of support for the detainees and a protest against their arrests, sparked sharp criticism from Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
"While the people of Israel are burying their heroic soldiers and comforting bereaved families, the haredi members of the Knesset are living in a parallel universe and visiting draft-dodgers in military prison," Smotrich wrote. "What a disgrace. What a lack of awareness. What disconnection and callousness."
During the visit, Deri met with approximately ten haredi detainees, listened to their accounts of prison conditions, and presented them with copies of holy books bearing a personal dedication from Rabbi David Abuhatzeira.
According to Deri, he pledged to work to ensure that the detainees receive the religious study materials they require and called for an end to what he described as the criminalisation of Torah students.
Goldknopf, who was accompanied by his aide Motti Babchik, likewise condemned the arrests of yeshiva students and argued that the current policy toward Torah scholars must change.
Outside the prison, Deri met with the father of one of the detainees, who has been conducting a solidarity protest near the facility. Offering words of encouragement, Deri reiterated his opposition to the arrests.
"From here we cry out: stop treating Torah students as criminals," Deri said upon leaving the prison. "Shas will act this week to advance a Basic Law: Torah Study, which will enshrine the supreme value of Torah learning in the State of Israel."
Goldknopf echoed the sentiment, saying: "We came to the Land of Israel after two thousand years of exile not so that our brothers and sons would be arrested because they are Torah students. This reality must change."
(Goldcrap is a liar, they weren't arrested because they are "Torah students" they were arrested for not registering for the draft! )
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"(Goldcrap is a liar, they weren't arrested because they are "Torah students" they were arrested for not registering for the draft! )"
I would believe you if we saw the same widespread arrests and persecution to the secular draft evaders. There are no arrests, and no one looking for the either, though they exist in significant numbers. So yes, they are arrested for learning Torah
Dummy
There is a major difference, Charedim as a group are refusing to go led by "torah" (little t) leaders, whereas the secular draft evaders are individually evading.
So you are right, the leaders need to be arrested instead!
And you are also lying, because there are arrests, except when they get arrested, no one stops traffic abd there are no protests, so you don't know about it, but there are now hundreds of secular draft dodgers in jail.
Stop listening to your "kockers: that are feeding you lies and propaganda!
No one in Israel was ever arrested for learning Torah, your Roshei Yeshivas are unmitigated liars!
The problem is Smotrich who says "This is terrible" and then hands the menuvalim billions of shekels.
"there are now hundreds of secular draft dodgers in jail"
Oh, can you name one? Are there any Israeli Arab ones in jail too?
They don't shut down roads, true, because no one gives a hoot if they sit and rot in jail (were they to ever go). Chareidim care about their fellow Bachurim and Yungerleit who are forced to miss Yeshiva and their families because of the mechashaifa masquerading as "attorney general" (yes, I know there are some bad apples who aren't learning, but the vast majority of those arrested - not at protests - were serious bnei torah). You can continue to believe the lies the secular politicians and media feed you, because it fits your narrative - i.e. that of a fithy sonei Hashem V'Toraso - but we'll continue to follow our Gedolim who you wish would drop dead. B'Derch Hashem Neilech, Ub'Shilton Hakofrim (and DIN) ein anu ma'aminim!
Dummy 8:41
(1) I can't name one Charede Draft dodger either!
(2) Israeli Arabs are exempt from the army, thank G-d!
(3) Charedim do not give a crap about "their fellow Bachurim and Yungerleit " if they did, they wouldn't send them out to stop buses and cars inconveniencing thousands of people and putting them in danger! In fact one of them is now in critical condition!
(4) Your sick chant ( B'Derch Hashem Neilech, Ub'Shilton Hakofrim (and DIN) ein anu ma'aminim!) about a country that is the home of over 7 1/2 million other Jews and is now defending with mesiras nefesh its citizens, including the ungrateful Charedim, during a war, is proof positive that you are not from Zera Avraham & Sarah, but from Avraham & Hagar!
No one is falling for your Yeshivishe crap, frum people are getting sick and tired of them disrupting their daily lives, and they will soon lose their benefits, and your Gedoilim when they come back from their private airplane that cost $300,000+ for this trip, will have to go back very soon again, because they will never be able to match the grant that the Zionists gave Moisdois Ha'torah just last year, which was over 800 million Shekels ($273 million)
and as a parting note, you can kiss me where the will never shine!
Mr. Nutjob, you keep on pointing to grants to Yeshivos as "proof" Zionist support Torah.
(1) They are citizens who pay taxes, so obviously they are entitled to some of the money.
(2) The grants are based on coalition agreements.
If it were up to them, they would slash it. Indeed, when the Charedim were not in the coalition, their budgets were slashed drastically, so don't give me your BS about Zionists supporting torah.
You are a Sonei Yisroel like Bennett and Kahana, and may you rot like them - or should I say may you kiss them..
DIN DIN on the wall who is the Biggest Dummy of them all: avaddeh they were arrested for learning! They couldn't register because nisht nor tziz bittul Torah but the registration alein is an aveirah!
And the oylam Hatorah is huge which none of us are falling for YOUR Crap!
TalmidTuchis
(1) The citizens paying taxes by in large, are not Chardeim
(2) Who gives a flying crap how they are based, the fact is that they got over 800 million shekels
Yes if it were up to "them they would slash it" and they should, if you live in a country and you don't even recognize it, nor do you feel obligated to serve, then move the hell out!
I'm not a "Sonei Yisrael like Bennet & Kahana" I'm a Sonei Yisrael like Satmar!
I don't have a clue what you are talking about, I live in this country going in my 9th year ble"h
and never have I heard anyone being arrested for learning Torah, not even in the Chardeie News media.
"the registration alein is an aveirah!?"
You made it up, didn't you?
Where in the Torah does it say that????
But I'll show you in the Torah that you do have to enlist, and where the Torah doesn't exempt someone learning
?האחיכם יבוא למלחמה ואתם תשבו פה
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