Kul al-Arab, Israel’s most influential and widely read Arabic-language newspaper, is continuing its campaign against Yad L’Achim, charging that the organization rescues Jewish women from Arab villages.
“Yad L’Achim has been active for many years in rescuing young Jewish women and their children from Arab communities,” begins a major story that appeared recently in Kul al-Arab. “Leading religious figures in Judaism, including the Baba Sali, Rabbi Kaduri, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and others have blessed and legitimized Rabbi Lifschitz, the head of the organization, for his major efforts in rescuing Jewish souls and returning them to their people.”
The article, the second on Yad L’Achim in recent weeks, focuses on one particular rescue of a woman and children that ended up in court in a custody battle. The reporter speaks to the husband and describes his shock at returning home to an empty apartment and his fury at being told by a Jewish neighbor that “Yad L’Achim people ‘visited’ with a truck and took his son, daughter, wife and household items.”
The reporter goes on to describe how Yad L’Achim operates, noting with irony that staffers regard their activities as “rescue activities,” not kidnappings. He notes that Yad L’Achim is active all across the country, from Arab villages inside Israel and “occupied Jerusalem” to areas in the Palestinian Authority. The method is always the same, he writes: The wife and children are kidnapped and distanced from the Arab spouse and father.
The newspaper complains that Yad L’Achim then goes to court in order to “change the family name of the children and to give them the name of the mother alone, in order to turn them into Jews in the fullest sense.”
In the sole instance in which the paper adhered to journalistic ethics, the reporter contacted Yad L’Achim for a reaction, which appeared at the end of the article. “We don’t kidnap anyone. We are the address for anyone who believes in returning to his roots and to his Jewish religion. Yad L’Achim provides this service to any Jew who turns to us.”
Yad L’Achim said this week that its legal team will file a police complaint against the newspaper for printing details of a case that is being held behind closed doors. In its report, Kul al Arab violated a court-ordered media blackout on the case.
Yad L’Achim wishes to stress that the woman whose story is profiled in the newspaper suffered for years from her abusive Arab husband and that she had filed numerous complaints with the police that led to his arrest.
It also stresses that the rescue of the woman and her children was executed at her request and that this was not a case of “kidnapping.”
(YWN Israel Desk)
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15 Responses
Why is this an “accusation”. Isn’t it exactly what yad lachim INTENDS to do?!
Kol HaKavod to Yad L’Achim!!!
They are obviously doing something very right if the yishmaeli savages are complaining about it!!!
Similar accusations against Yad L’Achim have been made repeatedly in the annual reports of the U.S. State Department under the Administrations of both President Obama and Former President Bush.
This shows that we are in Galus in America, and should not become too comfortable, even in this “Medinas HaChesed.”
#1 this is a false accusation. Yad L’Achim RESCUES these
people AT THEIR REQUEST. They do not KIDNAP (which would be to take them against their will). MAJOR DIFFERENCE!!!
Now this proves that this is definatly a legit organization so everyone please donate. By the way YWN editor why don’t don’t you have a link for donations?
Thank gd families are returned to their roots. Amen and continued success.
I have a simple question to any father: If you go insane and start brainwashing your children to kill themselves, wouldn’t you want them to be “kidnapped?” Call it a “kidnapping” what do I care.
#1 are you jewish??????you definitely don’t sound it!
“That’s not a bug, it’s a feature”
Yad Lachim workers are tzadikim. They risk their lives and enter dangerous arab villages to save jewish women and children. They are one of the tzedakahs dearest to me, and they are near the top of my tzedakah list. Besides, helping Gilad Shalit, this is one of the only present opportunities to do PIDYON SHVUYIM.
As akuperma says – “That’s not a bug, it’s a feature”
I don’t see any ‘accusation’ here – this is exactly what they do, and rightly so, being that it is the wish of the mother, and in just about every judicial system in the world, it’s generally the mother who has priority regarding the children in any separation/divorce.
Just take a minute and think about what an incredible organization Yad Lachim is. Imagine that this frum organization operates like the Mossad they have paid inside people that facilitate, and provide intelligence to enable these high risk rescue operations. Needless to say it costs heavy hard earned money for every operation.
So let’s get together and do our share.
כל הכבוד. חזקו ואמצו
One thing that people forgot to mention is that in the vast majority of cases the Jewish wife was a non-religious Jew who got swept away by a “charismatic” Arab man. After marriage these Arab men tend to turn beauty (themselves) in the beast! They become physically and verbally abusive to their Jewish wives and she becomes a prisoner in her own home. In order to keep her put he threatens to kill her and at times even threatens to kill the kids if she ever tries to escape. The rescue operations are very dangerous and everybody’s lives are at stake to save her and her children from their wicked fathers.
Think about it. What causes a non-religious (and sometime previously anti-religious Jew) to contact a religious organization for help? Obviously, they are very desperate!
Another point. If a mother in America was being abused by her husband would anybody consider it kidnapping if an organization rescued her kids along with her? Of course not! Anybody (non-Arab/Muslim) that would consider this an illegal act is either uneducated to the facts or an outright anti-Semite!
Point of information
1. The woman who end up with arab husband are usually lost
young woman, [bad family life, abuse by father or mother
no self esteem]
2. Arab man man introduce themselves with Israel names not
arab names
3. Once married family of arab men mistreat the bride cause
see her as Israeli
4. Arab man not all but a lot it is normal to physical and
fore sure mental abuse their wife
5. Child are given great vocations like go blow up
yourself
6. Women want out but don’t want to die
7. Therefore contact Yad L’Achim.
8. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF THIS WAS YOU OR YOUR SISTER?