Indictments were handed down on Tuesday 10 Elul against three persons who were arrested when they entered the home of Rabbi Moshe Havlin without authorization, then causing a ruckus. The three were part of a group numbering 20-25, entering the home of the 68-year-old Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Gat to protest his role in reaching an agreement with the IDF by which Chabadnikim will serve in the IDF. They caused a ruckus and damaged items, leading to the rebitzen being hospitalized for observation following the trauma.
The three, Shlomo Zalman, Yehuda Leib and Menachem Mendel, members of the chareidi community, were apprehended at the scene that night while the others succeeded in fleeing. They were indicted in the Ashkelon Magistrate Court. It is pointed out that during their remand they were most uncooperative with authorities and they told the court during their arraignment that they do not recognize its authority over them.
The prosecution told the court the three got on a minibus and traveled from Beit Shemesh to Kiryat Gat to protest in the rav’s home since they do not agree with the Chabad agreement by which bnei Torah will serve in the IDF. They entered the rav’s home, created a ruckus, blew shofars, knocked things over, and threw flyers around the home. They shouted at the rav, who they accuse of “selling Jewish neshomos”, insisting he personally profits on each Chabadnik inducted into the IDF. They insist Rabbi Havlin earns NIS 600 per inductee, an allegation the rav dismissed as “absurd”.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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It seems so senseless to allow these thugs to use taxpayer money to engage in their terrorists activities against a chashuve rav. There needs to be a more direct response including blowing up their homes, putting them in jail without all the usual perks and making their lives as miserable as possible. Otherwise, their will be no deterrent against others engaging in similar terrorist activities.
They’re influenced by somebody(ies).
Who’s behind it? It’s Chodesh Ellul, no?
The investigation should extend to the higher-ups, and to whomever it leads,and if the rhetoric is violent, then even M’im Mizbechi they should be arrested.
They are hoodlums who use the banner of “Zionist state is evil” to justify their evil.
But as many point out, one wrong does not justify another wrong. These hooligans deserve real time in jail.
Good thing I am not the judge, I would export them to live in the anti Zionist paradise: Gaza….