Israeli military police on Tuesday evening arrested a yeshiva student at his home in Ramat Gan, weeks after an earlier attempt to detain him was blocked by mass protests.
The detainee was identified as Yitzchak Rebibo, a talmid at Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Ozer in Bnei Brak. According to reports, military police officers detained him outside his residence shortly after he had finished lighting Chanukah candles with his family.
Approximately three weeks ago, military police sought to arrest Rebibo on allegations that he failed to report to an induction office. That attempt was thwarted when hundreds of yeshiva bochurim and avreichim from across the chareidi community converged on the area following an emergency call circulated among activists. The demonstrators physically blocked the arrest, staging a protest against what they described as the unjust detention of a yeshiva student engaged in Torah study.
During the earlier confrontation, a military police vehicle was overturned amid the unrest. In the aftermath, police carried out arrests of individuals suspected of involvement in that incident.
The advocacy organization Notnim Gav has taken up Rebibo’s case and is providing support to him and his family. The group arranged legal representation, with attorney Shlomo Chadad handling the matter on his behalf.
How is it that chareidim didn’t block the unjust arrest from the hands of the resha’im this time?