A number of melamdim from Modi’in Illit have been arrested last week pertaining to a case that is under a gag order. What has been learned is that one of the persons taken into custody has no connection to the case, but was arrested in a case of mistaken identity. He explains that when the police came to his house at 5:00AM one morning it was clearly not him they were looking for but he was taken to the station and only after being questioned numerous times did police understand he was not he s

It appears that he is similar in appearance to the suspect in the case, leading detectives to arrest him without first verifying his identity.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)