An estimated 400 Bochrim from Yeshivos affiliated with the Peleg Yerushalmi were protesting in Yerushalayim on Sunday afternoon.
They are protesting the arrest and incarceration of a Yeshiva Bochur named Gamliel Mahadani, who was arrested for failing to register for the IDF draft.
The boys father, HaRav Nadav Mahadani, the Rov of the Ethiopian community in Ohr Yehuda, told Kol Berama in an interview that his son has never left Yeshiva, and surprisingly, there was never any letters or summonses (Tzav Giyus) sent to his son telling to come to the draft office. “They came in the middle of the night to our home and arrested him”.
As of 6:00PM in Israel, the protests had moved locations to the Chords Bridge, and traffic was gridlock all around the area due to the protests.
Police said that as of 6:00PM a total of 38 Bochrim had been arrested.
Police were in riot gear, and horses were used to try and open the streets. Eventually, the police water-cannon trucks were used as a non-lethal method to disperse crowds, as it sprayed the foul-smelling “skunk water” at the protesters. It is created to leave a stench on those who are sprayed with it for several hours if not days.
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Take their citizenship away and deport them, to Iran or Iraq.
Seems a lame excuse, anybody knows that you’ve got to apply for a draft exclusion.
How does the Cheshbon of Bittul Torah work? These demonstrations cause 400 bochurim to close their Gemoras and sit on the street to be treated like vermin and scorned upon by the entire country. Is that Kovod HaTorah? And what about the women who are working hard to support their husbands learning, they are now stuck on busses downtown and unable to be home to greet their schoolchildren coming home from cheder. What kind of impression does that give to the kids, that they should be a ‘Yeshiva bucher’ who causes gridlock and gets arrested and thrown into jail in blue, wet, stinking clothing?
And what about the serious Maggidei Shiur and serious learners who need to get to their place of learning, who picks up the tabs for this collosal Bittul Torah?
It’s quite despicable.
I don’t think that the spray with the fowl odor is a deterrent for these guys… you should try smelling then on a regular Tuesday :p
I like that skunk smelling water cannon shoot! I feel badly that it was necessary because nothing at all is accomplished this way only that so many people who have no connection with the policy makers were disrupted. If only these Peleg kids had a leader and guidance they would likely be demonstrating in a totally different manner: one that is able to exact the intended result!
There s only one way this gangsterism will stop the authorities must stop this at the head,Peleg and the so called Rabbonim and roshey yeshivas associated with them must be declared as a terrorist organization (which they are),immediately arrest them and put them on trial for the crime of sedition and treason and give them long prison sentences.And while at it, do the same to the Neturai Karta crazies
If you know you have to register. don’t blame allegedly not receiving a notice
make them stand guard with their rabbeim on the border with Gaza, until they say a mishebairach for chayalei yisroel and promise to say it every day.
they deserve to be deported to Iran and learn with other sonai Yisroel
6 months in jail and this nonsense will stop very quickly. As long as they don’t toughen up against these hooligans who reek havoc on an entire city this will continue.
Let them try this anywhere in US??!! Boy o boy!!
That rolling “Yeshiva World” logo is REALLY annoying… STOP doing it!!
The names of the “yeshivos” these people attend should be publicized, so that next time they plead poverty hard questions can be asked
Names please. I want to be sure that any shidduch proposed for my daughters of these boys will be rejected immediately. These boys do not represent anything that I view as compatible with a yeshiva bochur.
The entire Peleg naarative is a lie, and a huge Chilul Hashem. This stupid boy and his stupid father are responsible for his arrest. He could have registered for a postponement like all normal people. These Mechalelei Shem Shomayim WANT bochurim to be arrested so they can stop traffic, waste thousands of people time, promulgate their cult’s name, and collect money from Satmar for their phony cause.
There is no kaparah for Chilul Hashem. Period.
I noticed someone’s face covered in blood.
Did anybody else notice that?????
The article itself did not make any mention about this specific picture.
A face covered in blood.
The peleg group is not Torah observant! they do not care that thousands of innocent people can not get to their place of work, to their kollels and yeshivas, to doctors’ appts, pick up kids, etc….
One of their disgusting ilk on purpose did not submit simple paper work to get a deferment from the army and so they cause pain to innocent people.
My opinion is that beating and imprisonment is needed for these stupid punks.
Don’t ask my opinion of their evil rabbis! gehenom is too good for them.
Anyone willing to debate logically with facts please read. Anyone who is only interested in spewing hatred without willingness to answer questions please skip this comment. It is important to note that a lot of the antagonism against these hafganos is due to a lack of understanding of what the problem is and why they are protesting we have to remember that if we felt that our kids are being kidnapped we would definitely understand much more the hafganos for example if a law passed that all the inhabitants of Bnei Brak will be thrown out of their homes to the streets (not at once but in stages slowly but surely) and after trying every way possible through politicians and the like there was nothing left to do about it and the inhabitants of Bnei Brak made hafganos etc. people would be much more understanding. Therefore it is important to realize why are they demonstrating. The basic questions on them are that 1.at this point of time no one is being threatened to be taken to the army and therefore how can this be called a gezeiras shmad 2. why not just go to the enlistment office and get a deferment? The fact is that a few years ago when the first law was passed a law which DID NOT THREATEN ANYONE WITH IMMEDIATE CONSCRIPTION to the army and everyone was able to go to the enlistment office and get a deferment the Gedolim from all factions of the chareidy community including agudas yisroel degel hatorah and shas got together and wrote a statement that if the law passes THEY WILL CONSIDER PROHIBITINF anyone from going to the enlistment office at the time Rav Yigal Rosen the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Ohr Yisroel and one who was considered to be a close confidant of Maran Harav Shteinman Zatza”l wrote an article in the Yated Neeman (Rav Shteinman’s newspaper) explaining how Rav Shteinman is for weeks pondering the shayla about whether or not to assur going to the lishkas hagiyus in the article R’ Rosen explains the dilemma that on the one side seemingly there is no reason to go all out against the government now and not to go now to the deferment office because right now no one is being threatened with being drafted on the other hand he explains how the entire point of their waiting a few years and not drafting yet is because they know that if they try drafting now they won’t be successful so they decided the best way to do it is to wait and meanwhile everyone will come to get a dichuy in the deferment office and there they will look out for potential bochurim who may be able to be recruited for the army and they put in hundreds of millions of shekel to trying to recruit people to the army and when they are successful in getting more and more chareidim into the army eventually the chareidim will become acclimated to the fact that chareidim serve in the army and it will be much easier for them to reach their goal of all chareidim serving in the army so therefore maybe the best way to deal with this is that right now we should say no! we will have nothing to do with this and when they see that they are up against a brick wall they’ll realize that there is now way to get the chareidim to go to the army because their not going to put tens of thousands of bochurim in jail Rav Rosen ends writing that Rav Shteinman is debating the shayla for weeks and has not yet decided eventually Rav Shteinman was quoted as saying that bochurim should go to the deferment office while R’ Shmuel Auerbach and with him hundreds of gedolei torah roshei yeshivos dayanim rabbonim and talmidei chachamim (google it it was at a conference in the tamir hall in Jerusalem at the time) said not to go to the deferment office those who follow these gedolim definitely have to follow them in this and the fact that they are being put into prison should cause the entire religious world to protest since whether you agree or not these boys are doing what they are mechuyav to be doing for example if their was a law that everyone has to eat rice on Pesach and people who didn’t were put in prison the sphardim would not say that we don’t have to protest since we see nothing wrong with eating rice on Pesach becausprotesting e the fact is that Ashkenazim are not follow the poskim who say not to eat rice on Pesach and therefore to force them to is religious persecution.
its funny i used to be like all u guys commenting from the comfort of my home in america. come to israel and see what goes on and you’ll be singing a differnt tune! these guys are 100% right! stop commenting unless ur in the know