Haredi Soldier Charged With Weapons Theft, Robbery

Indictment filed against 24-year-old yeshiva student also serving as IDF driver for robbing gas station store in Jerusalem using stolen M16 rifle. Man also suspected of robbing Mea Shearim post office several months later.    

Haredi soldier charged with weapons theft, robbery
Indictment filed against 24-year-old yeshiva student also serving as IDF driver for robbing gas station store in Jerusalem using stolen M16 rifle. Man also suspected of robbing Mea Shearim post office several months later
Yair Altman • Ynet

Cleared for publication: Jerusalem Police arrested a 24-year-old yeshiva student and IDF soldier several weeks ago who is being charged with armed robbery using an M16 rifle stolen from an army base.

An indictment was filed against the suspect last week charging him with weapons theft, robbery and conduct unbecoming. The soldier is also suspected of another robbery carried out in a similar manner. An indictment on that charge will be filed later this week.

The suspect is a yeshiva student also serving as a driver in the Central Command and is a married father of one.

In 2009, an M16 rifle was stolen from a soldier serving in one of the bases in the Jerusalem area, however a Military Police investigation did not yield any leads.
 
The indictment, which was filed by the military prosecution, states that last August a veiled man dressed in an IDF uniform entered a gas station store in Jerusalem's Ramat Eshkol neighborhood in the middle of the night, drew his M16 rifle and proceeded to rob the place of NIS 4,000 ($1,124.86) and flee the scene.
 
A similar robbery was noted last November. It is alleged that the suspect entered a post office in Mea Shearim and again left the site with NIS 4,000. In this instance, however the crime was committed in the early evening hours while the post office was packed with women and children. The Jerusalem District Prosecutor's Office is scheduled to file an indictment on this case in the coming days.

Rifle found in staircase

Police launched an investigation and finally found a lead several weeks ago after receiving a report on a suspicious suitcase found in the staircase of a building in Jerusalem's Romema neighborhood. Sappers later found the rifle stolen in 2009 and a computer inside the suitcase.

Having examined the computer, the officers were able to trace the suspect.

In his interrogation the suspect denied having committed the robberies but confessed to stealing the weapon. The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court extended his remand until all legal proceedings against him are completed.

 

Comments

[A. Nuran]

He's going to spend a very, very long time in jail.

[JC]

Here we go asking for these mother-fuckers to go to the Army now this. Keep them in the yeshiva where they can stay out of trouble and steal from each other. They are less dangerous with a gemarah in hand then holding a rifle.

[Mr. Apikoros]

Omitted from Shmarya's blog, of course, is the story which appeared in yesterday's NY Times about how Israel and the USA developed a computer virus which set back Iran's nuclear progam several years by destroying the centrifuges used in Iranian reactors, very much reminiscent of the scene in the movie "Independence Day" in which Will Smith insert a computer virus in the aliens' spaceship.

This is the Israel I know and love. This is the Israel I visited as a kid right after the 6-day War, and again in 1979, and will visit again. This is the Israel a quarter of young adults visit for free on Birthright Israel trips. Not the "Israel" depicted in this blog.

I'll bet at least some of the technicians and scientists who developed this Stuxnet virus are Orthodox Jews.

[Mr. Apikoros]

That's a quarter of a million young adults...

[Yerachmiel Lopin]

Shmarya,

How did you conclude he was haredi? The article says yeshiva "student." Most yeshiva students in the army are dati leumi (roughly the Israeli equivalent of modern orthodox).

Shmarya,

I think you are over-using the word haredi in your posting titles.

[jay]

@apikoris:

I doubt anyone flew a spaceship into Iraq to deposit a virus in their computers.

Additionally, it's highly probable that the Israel you'd visit nowadays would bear little resemblance to the country you visited 32 years ago.

You're nostalgic for a society and culture that never existed, outside of the guided tours and visitations tourists and birthright students experience.

[JC]

*Omitted from Shmarya's blog, of course, is the story which appeared in yesterday's NY Times about how Israel and the USA developed a computer virus which set back Iran's nuclear progam several years by destroying the centrifuges used in Iranian reactors*

If there are no haredim or chabad in the story then we are not interested. This is specialized blog - a finely tuned surgical instrument dedicated to expose the evil doings of haredim and chabad and hopefully instrumental in bringing their downfall. Anything else, while important, is background noise which will only serve to detract us for our mission. Sorry but that’s the way it is.

[Mr. Apikoros]

First off, it wasn't Iraq, it was Iran. Second, Will Smith didn't fly a spaceship, he flew a plane. Third, you don't need a spaceship nor an airplane to deposit a computer virus. All you need is the Internet, and a pretty good hacker, which Israel and the US have in abundance.

I have plenty of relatives living in Israel today. Most are secular, like most Israelis, and for them it's a pretty good place to live.

[Menachem Mendel lll]

I look forward to reading about the Haredi community protesting on behalf of this young man with the same fervor and excitement that they demonstrated when protesting the shabos opening of a parking lot in Jerusalem.

[effie]

I'm curious: Do the "stop and robs" in Israel have security cameras? Did dumbazz cover his face?

[jay]

I stand corrected on the typo viz: iran/iraq.
It was a spaceship he flew up to the mothership to deposit the virus, btw ;-)
I too have relatives all over Israel.
it's a great place to live unless you happen to be disabled, poor, a disabled war veteran, an ethiopian jew, a foreign sex slave tricked into coming to israel, etc..

[David]

I'll bet at least some of the technicians and scientists who developed this Stuxnet virus are Orthodox Jews.

Less than one percent?

Third, you don't need a spaceship nor an airplane to deposit a computer virus. All you need is the Internet, and a pretty good hacker, which Israel and the US have in abundance.

STUXNET was transmitted via infected USB drives. The facilities were offline so no Internet connection was available.

[Mr. Apikoros]

"Independence Day" is about the dumbest of dumb Sci-Fi movies. I liked the scene at the end where one of the 15 mile in diameter spaceships lay capsized in Sydney Harbor. If a ship of such size (that of a large mountain) crashed into Sydney Harbor, even going relatively slowly, it would have created a tsunami which would have toppled the Sydney Opera house (and every other building). But the Opera House stood intact.

But I'll bet the Stuxnet creators saw the movie.

[harvey]

is this what we get from them going into the IDF?