An Alon Moreh resident, 25, was arrested after learning he violated his house arrest order, traveling to Uman on someone else’s passport. The man in question was taken into custody upon his return.
The man was sent to house arrest in connection to allegations against him of damaging a police station and threatening police. He was also banned from leaving the country, prompting him to use someone else’s passport, realizing he would be flagged and detained at Ben-Gurion International Airport if he tried using his.
He used a disguise and succeeded in evading airport police, making it to Uman as planned. Officials made the discovery while the suspect was in Uman, and he was apprehended by police in Tel Aviv upon his return. At that time, he told them “the rav commanded me to fly and I did not think I would have sufficient time to get a new passport”.
At his remand hearing, the young man told the Petach Tikvah Magistrate’s Court via his attorney, public defender Dorit Gitterman, that his only real crime was violating his house arrest. Gitterman added that he has been under house arrest for a long time, about a year, and this was his first violation.
The court ordered police to continue the investigation, and since the young man is now deemed a flight risk, his remand was extended.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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#1 – Has it ever occurred to you that there is no more room under the carpet? It’s not too late to free yourself from your taliBAN mentality. Hashem was kind to give you a brain – use it!
Very interesting chassidic tales
No! I like!
I guess it was so important to go to Uman, so he had to go illigally