24 Elul 5785
Some of the readers may as yet be unaware that the long-awaited incursion into Gaza City has finally been launched. The IDF has been concurrently bombing in Gaza and in Yemen in recent hours.
Despite all this, military police can be spared to hunt down a young chareidi woman against whom there are no valid charges, and even after it is confirmed that the IDF has made a mistake, she is still incarcerated in a prison after two days!
...Many Chareidi Sephardi journalists have complained that so far, all arrests and attempted arrests have been carried out against Sephardi bnei yeshivos. Kikar H’Shabbat reported that the military police have not knocked on even one home of an Ashkenazi ben yeshivah, Litvish or Chassidish, except for ba’alei teshuvah.
An IDF source claimed in a conversation with Kikar, “We are not acting intentionally against Sephardim, but due to the decision not to operate in Chareidi cities, we operate in mixed cities and neighborhoods, and naturally, mostly Sephardim reside there.”
Kahan addressed this issue as well, saying, “Are the arrests specifically against Sephardi bochurim? In the army they say there is no connection and they come randomly, according to lists. I don’t believe them. I can’t understand how, out of all the arrests in homes, they come to the homes of specifically Sephardim. What does the army have against Sephardim? What is this?”
Kikar quoted a source from the home of one of the senior members of the Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah of Shas, who said there is great anger at the conduct of the IDF, which is only carrying out enforcement operations against Sephardim. “Discrimination has also entered the IDF. We are against any arrest, but if they decide to carry out arrests, why is it only against our bochurim? And where is Shas? Why are our representatives silent about this injustice?”
Last month, HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Yosef slammed the arrest of Sephardi bnei yeshivos, saying, “They arrest mainly Sephardim; they know that the mother is weak, the father is weak. They go and arrest bnei yeshivos in the middle of the night, knocking hard on the door. What is this, Russia? Is there a communist regime here? Bolsheviks?
Then there was the yeshivah bachur who was lured to the police station under false pretenses where he was taken and jailed during the week of his Sheva Brachot. The entire family and community are traumatized by the injustice and lack of compassion. Even if they felt themselves justified, the police couldn't have waited a few more days????
Yisrael Meir Teharani, a talmid at the Shalhevet HaTorah yeshiva, has been in military detention for a week after being arrested during his sheva brachos.
His family members expressed distress that all efforts to release the new husband have failed, and he spent his first Shabbos after Sheva Brachos in a military prison.
“We feel as if a sharp sword has been plunged into our hearts,” his family members said. “Instead of sitting with his family around the Shabbos table, just a week after his wedding, he sat in solitude behind bars.”
According to the Ezram U’Meginim and Notnim Gav organizations, Teharani’s arrest is a grave escalation in the persecution of the Olam HaTorah, as he appeared at the Holon police station to give testimony—at the request of the police.
“If the Israeli police are laying traps for bnei yeshivos, it is encouraging crime within the Chareidi sector, and the consequences for the police could be disastrous,” a statement said.
Over 20 Chareidim have been arrested on “draft-dodging” charges at Ben-Gurion Airport over the past week on the way to Uman.
If anyone in the military echelon had an ounce of yirat shamayim, they would understand that, now more than ever, Klal Yisrael is in need of the Torah's protection - now, more than at any other time in our modern history, a time during which yeshivah bachurim learned without disturbance, much less threats and sanctions and imprisonment!!!!
All of this has been brought about through the auspices of foreign powers who have plotted our annihilation. Had the government followed the Torah's instructions for war, we would not be here two years later. I'm convinced, however, that this error on their part is what is going to lead to their fall from power and replacement by Mashiach.
Please Hashem, may it be soon.
These reshaim have no idea what awaits because of this evil that is being perpetrated upon our people in our Land. This is chodesh Elul,
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We all should internalize this and those who go out to purposely do harm to Hashem's children need to be mindful of this, as well as every human being!
May H' Protect and bless his children who are devoted to Him and cling only to Him so that no harm comes to any one of them!
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