A chareidi woman, the wife of a Chabad chossid, on Monday morning 10 Cheshvan 5774 launched a one-person protest outside the Defense Ministry on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv. The woman, who we will call N, is protesting the arrest of her husband.
The woman’s presence prompted many people to stop and sympathize with her, particularly because she is near the end of her pregnancy. She told passersby that her husband was arrested and has been imprisoned for four months.
The avreich decided for his own personal reasons to go into the IDF. He completed the process and had an induction date. However, on that day he was in 770. Upon his return home he checked with family to ascertain if he received any calls or mail from the IDF. The response was that he did not. He contacted IDF officials and was told his induction would be in about a half year and that he would be notified of the exact date. Time passed but nothing happened. At some point he lost his motivation, feeling the IDF simply does not want him. He forgot about the induction and got on with his life. He soon thereafter became a chosson and got married.
He has since been abroad numerous times without difficulty. One who has an induction date set is not permitted out of the country and would generally be flagged at the airport when one tries leaving the country. Not being stopped at the airport is taken as a sign that all is well with the IDF.
Some time ago he arrived at the police station in his area to report an accident. He was informed that he is absent without leave from the IDF and placed under arrest.
N reports that life has been hellish since his arrest and they hired the best attorney they could find but to date, all the money and effort have not yielded any results. He remains in a military prison for over four months. N cries as she explains he did everything possible to get in, but they would not take him. He has been in prison since before Rosh Hashanah and N fears he will be in jail when their child is born. N and her husband insist he is not AWOL but IDF officials report he has been AWOL for seven years, adding he failed to make contact with the correct military officials.
Askan Rav Chaim Aaron Yosefi and Migdal HaEmek Chief Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Grossman are both personally involved. Kikar Shabbat reports at present, all of those involved are pessimistic regarding the young father-to-be’s release at any time in the near future.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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8 Responses
And they wonder why Torah Jews are opposed to the Israeli Army.
Story sounds fishy.
the Israeli army is notorioius for giving misinformation.
my son in law was inducted and told them he was going home to visit his wife. They told him they would contact him with news about his new place of service.
they never contacted him and he has been home for seventeen years now. he is fully recognized by the government here, votes and has traveled many times abroad. basically the army did not want him; his is too religious for them.
some where some how the IDF can make real screw ups. in this case looks like the avraich is at the losing end.
This will become more common as the IDF plays games with chareidi recruits. They want to stick it to the chareidim, as well as to the politicians who are making them take the chareidim. It’s a golden opportunity to simultaneously stick it to the two groups the army hates.
Incidentally, I assume that at the time of Herod and other rish’ei yisroel that this type of thing happened as well.
Doesn’t make sense there is more to thus story we aren’t being told
#2, Left.
Sounds fishy? WHY?
Do you have any facts? or even assumptions?
Rebbe Yid said it well.
Sounds like Iran.