Psychiatrist Illegally Helped 5,000 Haredim Dodge The Draft, Police Say

The psychiatrist, who lives in the Beit HaKerem neighborhood, allegedly sold haredim official medical opinions stating that they were not mentally fit to serve in the Israel Defense Forces. This allowed these haredim to receive a psychiatric discharge.

Psychiatrist Illegally Helped 5,000 Haredim Dodge The Draft
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

Police in Israel have arrested a Jerusalem psychiatrist accused of helping haredim dodge the draft, Yeshiva World reports.

The psychiatrist, who lives in the Beit HaKerem neighborhood, allegedly sold haredim official medical opinions stating that they were not mentally fit to serve in the Israel Defense Forces. This allowed these haredim to receive a psychiatric discharge.

Haredim allegedly bought the expert medical opinions for 600 NIS each (about $155).

A haredi community activist who is known for getting draft deferments for haredim, reportedly told Kikar Shabbat that, “we wondered why police did not arrest her a long time ago. She is known to everyone and has probably already helped 5,000 haredi yeshiva students [dodge the draft].”

The psychiatrist was released on bail with restrictions.

The investigation against her continues.

[Hat Tip: Seymour.]

Comments

[David]

The psychiatrist, who lives in the Beit HaKerem neighborhood, allegedly sold haredim official medical opinions stating that they were not mentally fit to serve in the Israel Defense Forces.

To be fair, it's probably true that they are mentally unfit to serve. But only because they or their parents have deliberately made them "unfit". Nevertheless, it is possible to find useful jobs for them in the IDF, even if they have to polish soldier's boots, clean toilets or perform other appropriate tasks. Whatever, they MUST be made to serve doing something and if they are not willing to participate in education to improve themselves, it must be harder, for a longer duration and more unpleasant than a regular citizen soldier who abides by the social contract has to do.

[Jeff]

Whatever, they MUST be made to serve doing something

Oh, but they ARE doing something! They're protecting Israel by davening and learning Toyreh! Those ungrateful frei yidden! They should be thanking the Haredim, not trying to interrupt their holy work.

Well, we know where they're all headed.

[Jeff]

Meanwhile, the first two comments were left by the same person:

What’s the point of the quote; to show hakarat hatovah to someone who has saved thousands of yeashiva bochurim?

I envy her olam haba.

That really is what it's all about for fundamentalists - Jewish, Christian, Muslim, even Buddhist - getting rewarded in the afterlife. Their development has been arrested at the level of a small child; they never progress beyond that point.

This is the reason I keep saying these people shouldn't be voting. They're incapable of making adult-level decisions.

[Justsayin]

Us the doctor hareidi?

[Alter Kocker]

Time for Israel to adopt the tactics of our Muslim cousins. If they cant pick up a rifle, they will be used as human shields against an attack.

Gedolim first.

[ah-pee-chorus]

A haredi community activist who is known for getting draft deferments for haredim, reportedly told Kikar Shabbat that, “we wondered why police did not arrest her a long time ago. She is known to everyone and has probably already helped 5,000 haredi yeshiva students [dodge the draft].”

so the activist just admitted that he and whomever else he was referring to when he said "we" knew she was breaking the law and ergo knew that the deferments obtained through her were fraudulent. i sure hope this loose-lipped criminal and his co-conspirators are caught and punished for their roles. subpoena kikar shabbat.

[Bassy the Haredi Slayer]

The story does not make sense, the draft candidates are being evaluated by military doctors not civil ones, and if the story is accurate the doctor will be arrested by the military police and processed by the Israeli equivalency of JAG and not by the police.

[Eli, what me messiah?]

With apologies to Joseph Heller:

There was only one catch and that was Haredi 22, which specified that a concern for davening in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of an irrational mind. The haredim were crazy and could be exempted. All they had to do was ask...

[Jake]

Bassey
This doctor is a civilian authoring an opinion

The army then has to decid to accept it as is ,or to investigate further by having military mental health care providers interview the potential draftees.

It has not been difficult for people to get psychiatric deferments,secular or Charedei to get a psyche deferment for a long time.

[shmarya is a satmarer]

Why in the world cant the Isreali gov't just draft a law that forbids an individual who doesn't serve, or an institution who helps him avoid service from receiving any kind of government funding, and that's it? Let the Learning and Davening that protects them bring them the money too.

[Klotz Kashe]

5,000? I thought it was 50,000.

Seriously, if the army is so stupid to release 5,000 people from the draft based on a report from the SAME doctor, perhaps those in the recruitment office should be released from duty on psychological grounds? Stupidity for a start.

Anyone who lives in Israel known that the opinion-letter from a psycho doesn't release from the draft, everyone goes through the army's own psychos first.

Perhaps Shmarya's 0 key got stuck? ?