Meir Ettinger, who is a grandson of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane HY”D, is scheduled to be released from administrative detention on Wednesday, 24 Iyar after being locked up for ten months. Many believe this is the reason he was arrested, due to being a right-wing activist with roots tracing back to the late rabbi.
During his imprisonment his wife gave birth and despite pleas from many officials on his behalf, including Chief Rabbi Dovid Lau Shlita, Ettinger was not permitted to attend the bris of his son. His harsh treatment and torture according to some, led him to launch a hunger strike in the hope of bringing attention to his plight as well as other Jewish administrative prisoners.
Ettinger was vilified by state officials, who accused him of planning to overthrow the government. He was labeled a “high risk to state security”.
Despite the harsh accusations and treatment of Ettinger during his detention, no evidence was brought to light to support the accusations against him and after a prolonged period of incarceration, he is being released.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Good. Now Israel should lock up Moshe Yaalon in administrative detention indefinitely, the real dangerous radical.
One can debate whether his rhetoric warranted administrative detention but there was no evidence he was “tortured” while in jail. Also, the government has a legitimate basis for being concerned since his grandfather was determined to head a “terrorist organization” by the U.S. government.
To: Gadolhadorah
You should be put in “administrative” detention since Goym claimed in the past that your ancestors kill Xtian babies on Passover and use their blood to bake matzoh.