Haredi Yeshiva Student Busted Smuggling iPhones
A Bnei Brak haredi yeshiva student returning to Israel from a trip
abroad got off his flight from New York City and was arrested moments
later by customs agents in Ben-Gurion International Airport after the agents found that the man was wearing a specially made
fringed ritual garment called an arba kanfot that concealed 30 Apple
iPhone 5s.
Haredi Yeshiva Student Busted Smuggling iPhones
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
A Bnei Brak haredi yeshiva student returning to Israel from a trip abroad got off his flight from New York City and was arrested moments later by customs agents in Ben-Gurion International Airport, Yeshiva World reports, after the agents found that the man was wearing a specially made fringed ritual garment called an arba kanfot that concealed 30 Apple iPhone 5s.
The phones are worth about $40,000 on the Israeli market.
The man reportedly told agents that he owns a toy store and that he planned selling the phones there. A family member allegedly sewed the special arba kanfot for him, so he could smuggle the phones through customs.
[Hat Tip: Burich.]
The rabbis will be very upset. Not because he was smuggling, but because he was smuggling Iphones. He should have had a kosher parnassa, like smuggling Ecstasy.
Posted by: Yochanan Lavie | January 09, 2013 at 07:09 AM
Maybe he got busted because the tzitzit attached to his arba kanfot were not kosher. He should have checked them before he traveled and then he could have fulfilled the mitzvah of smuggling for his fellow Charedim.
Posted by: David | January 09, 2013 at 07:16 AM
LOL
Probably x-rayed his luggage on arrival and found the 30 chargers and began to wonder...
Posted by: S M L | January 09, 2013 at 07:24 AM
In the dictionary, this story should be the new entry for "irony"
Posted by: Garnel Ironheart | January 09, 2013 at 07:29 AM
"Holy iPhone" Opening in 2014 at a theater near you. Starring Jessie Eisenberg.
Posted by: Rocky | January 09, 2013 at 08:41 AM
haredi will do anything for the money .
they cannot have jobs , like any decent human being , to pay for their every day's
needs
anything they do to 'make' money is illegal . they don't realize it , until they are arrested and thrown in jail .
that's the way they learn . but they are not deterred , they'll keep frauding any chance they get .
get a job, damn it !
Posted by: dd | January 09, 2013 at 09:00 AM
Is that an adult toy store? Just wondering if he carries the famous multiple pocket tzitzit with the Hole in the middle?
Posted by: shmekil chaim rosenputz | January 09, 2013 at 09:15 AM
blatant antisemitism!!
when was the last time they checked a non-jews tzizit?
Posted by: ah-pee-chorus | January 09, 2013 at 10:21 AM
he had no intention of selling them. he brought them in for his holy rebbe to smash them.
Posted by: ah-pee-chorus | January 09, 2013 at 10:24 AM
You know, I just can't work up any rage at this. Smuggling consumer goods doesn't seem such an avla. Okay, he got caught. They'll just fine him. Cost of doing business.
Posted by: Redleg | January 09, 2013 at 11:00 AM
How did he clear the TSA at Kennedy before boarding?
Posted by: Wigmore | January 09, 2013 at 11:37 AM
On top of it all he uses his holy tzitzis to commit a criminal act, he sure knows how to degrade his own religion
Posted by: jancsibacsi | January 09, 2013 at 12:44 PM
arba kanfot / shloshim iphones
Posted by: Gevezener Chusid | January 09, 2013 at 01:15 PM
5s? Now you're even making up the the phone models.
Posted by: SHmarhow? | January 10, 2013 at 11:05 AM
5s? Now you're even making up the the phone models.
Posted by: SHmarhow? | January 10, 2013 at 11:05 AM
Moron:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/
Posted by: Shmarya | January 10, 2013 at 11:18 AM
Posted by: ah-pee-chorus | January 09, 2013 at 10:21 AM
APC - LOL!! I bet there are people actually saying this on VIN!!!!
Posted by: Abracadabra | January 10, 2013 at 07:45 PM