Masked Men Break Into Office Of Haredi Breakaway Faction Member On Shabbat

The office of Rabbi Menachem Carmel, a member of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach's Netzach ultra-conservative breakaway faction from United Torah Judaism, was broken into on Shabbat. Apparently only documents related to UTJ housing deals from Carmel's days as UTJ's housing point man were taken. The two male burglars wore masks (and were probably Israeli Arabs or non-Jewish Russians hired to do the job). The theft appears to be related to the split with UTJ.

Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach. The office of a senior member of his breakaway faction was broken into on Shabbat by two masked men. Only documents were reportedly taken.

Yeshiva World reports:

The office of Rabbi Menachem Carmel of the Yerushalmi/Netzach faction of Degel Hatorah was broken into on shabbos morning at about 06:30. Video surveillance shows masked men inside. They made off with documents pertaining to his work in the party’s Vaad Diyor, the housing committee addressing housing issues for the party’s tzibur.

The main office of Carmel, located atop his Bar Kol supermarket at 6 Shlomo HeMelech in Bnei Brak was targeted by two men. The break in was discovered by a security office on motzei shabbos. A complaint was filed with police.

Netzach spokesman Rabbi Yaakov Friedman told the media that the surveillance footage clearly shows the two operated calmly as they searched for documents, uninterested in money. He confirms that they made off with “important documents” pertaining to the Vaad Diyor’s work.

Comments

[Yosi]

Which ones?

[shin]

Serves them right for not using digital copies.

[Steven]

Three rules of computers: backup, backup and backup. (Same applies to important handwritten documents.)

[Friar Yid]

Reminds me of when Menachem Porush told the Gerer rebbe to stuff it after he was ordered to resign from the Knesset back in the 80s. In response, a group of Ger avreichim stormed into his shul and beat him so badly he had to be hospitalized.

It's always nice when Litvishers and Hasidim can find things to agree on.

[Seraphya]

They probably hired them to do the job, but didn't specify when so that way the job could be done at the convenience of the goy, and should they happen to choose to do it on shabbat, well that's OK because that's what suited them. Oh, and of course if they happened to mention that there would be less security on shabbat, well, that is just letting them know some information that is completely separate to the Geneiva they are being hired to do.