Another haredi yeshiva student – this one an 18-year-old Chabad hasid – has reportedly been arrested by military police and imprisoned for draft dodging.
Chabad Yeshiva Student Arrested And Imprisoned For Draft Dodging
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Another haredi yeshiva student – this one an 18-year-old Chabad hasid – has reportedly been arrested by military police and imprisoned for draft dodging.
Military police reportedly came to the Chabad yeshiva student’s family home at 3:30 am and arrested the yeshiva student, who was home on a vacation from his yeshiva.
Police allegedly refused to stop in the local synagogue so the arrested hasid could pick up his tefillin. He has been forced to use tefillin belonging to other prisoners.
This is the third known arrest of a haredi yeshiva student for draft dodging in the past week and a half.
A military judge reportedly gave the Chabad yeshiva student the option of reporting to an IDF induction center or going to prison. The Chabad yeshiva student opted for prison and was sentenced to a 10-day term, after which he will reportedly be brought back before a military judge and given the same choice again: report to an IDF induction center or go back to prison.
Yeshiva World reported that unnamed “people” who have seen the Chabad yeshiva student in prison said that his condition “is not good.”
Unnamed people close to the Chabad yeshiva student also complained that he was forced to use non-Chabad tefillin and did not have access to Rabbaynu Tam tefillin, the second pair of tefillin many hasidim put on each day – although the student’s family was reportedly relieved that he had the use of tefillin of fellow haredi draft dodgers, even though they are worn slightly differently than Chabad tefillin.
[Hat Tip: The Fez.]