A young bride from Nachalas Har Chabad, married but one short month ago, was jailed in Israel and charged with defection from the IDF.
[Update: Judges rule she will remain in custody until Thursday.]
Lubavitcher Kallah Jailed for ‘Defection’ from IDF
A young bride from Nachalas Har Chabad, married but one short month ago, was jailed in Israel and charged with defection from the IDF.
[Update: Judges rule she will remain in custody until Thursday.]
Mrs. D.L. Cohen and her husband were on their way to the airport en route to New York, when they stopped at the Army Police station in Kiryat Malachi to ensure that their documents were in order.
On the spot Mrs. Cohen was informed that she is a defector wanted by the IDF, and was sent to Prison #4. The couple was promised to have the case taken care of immediately, and that her short stay in prison was a mere formality.
The promise was not kept; the young woman spent the night in jail, and this morning the authorities informed her husband that she would be transferred to a courthouse in Jaffa in the near future.
The families have gotten several politicians involved in the case. Rabbi Chaim Shteiner, representative of the Chabad community and vice Mayor of Kiryat Malachi, is working along with M.K. Michael Ben-Ari to try and bring about her release.
Also involved: Rabbi Binyomin Lifshitz, head of the vaad of Kfar Chabad, Rabbi Zalman Wolf, a Chabad Askan in Eretz Yisroel, and Rabbi Meir Porush, a former MK who is currently in the U.K.
This is a developing story. It will be updated as soon as new details become available.
Update: 11:49 PM:
The young woman was transferred this afternoon to a courthouse in Jaffa, where she was supposed to have a quick and easy trial.
The judges were very tough on her and refused to allow for her release, ruling instead that she would remain in custody until Thursday when her trial will continue.
yigirshu hatzionim maretz
Zionist out of Eretz Yisroel!
Lets be better then the frum users...
U have a duty do it……Free schooling you took from the medinah but army chas vesholom……frum girls dont need to do military then can serve in hospitals offices come on we lubavitch should give back not just take…
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sjk
im sorry,,,but if one doesnt follow rules thats what happens…if my license is uspended i will spend a night or several days in jail….im sorry and feel bad for a young bride..but we cannot be above the law…
Kallah
Just because she is a Kallah it doesnt mean she dosnt have to serve….
Moishe Roinan
What a sickening heartless system Israel has. Releasing murderers at the whim of a s****y excuse, and for a young kallah who is a good role model and citizen of Israel, gets this kind of treatment? Moshiach should come and do something terrible to the the police station… and leave her untouched that she may find safety in New York. Amen.
Milhouse
What sort of nonsense is this? Surely one look at her is enough to ascertain that she is religious, and therefore exempt.
so
hmmm, why do i feel like there is more to this story, that there are details missing?
is this the whole report, nothing left out?
update
On Shturem it says that she declared a hunger strike
DaasTorah
Dina d’malcusa dina. You can’t live in Israel, receive all the benefits of living there, but not serve the country.
minyaner
Milhouse…your stupidity is showing, bro
“religious and therefore exempt”– so just because a person is frum, means he can TAKE from the country and give NOTHING back? frum or not frum, you have to do your part.
Milhouse
#2, #3, #4, all the gedolei hatorah ruled in the ’50s that the conscription of women is yehoreg ve’al ya’avor.
#1, Zionism is kefirah, but Tzahal has the zechus of protecting Jewish lives. There was nobody more anti-zionist than the Rebbe, but he would never say what you wrote, chas vesholom. They should remain in the Land, where they belong, but they should do teshuvah.
Runks
Take take take, but dont give back. Don’t accept welfare and other exemptions from the government if you dont want to serve in the army.
Read the article before you comment
“when they stopped at the Army Police station in Kiryat Malachi to ensure that their documents were in order.”
Was she confirming that her papers were in order. if so the entire story dose not make cents?
She never attempted to leave illegally.
Chaim
Israel law: married woman is exempt from army services.
I do not understand even one comment here. Are you betoch inyanim?
re: number 12
when it comes to zionism and the state of israel, Satmar is the only viable shita. they dont take, dont give, and dont ask for anything but to be left alone with their torah.
to millhouse
The rebbe may not have said that but its a fact that Kdushas eretz yisroel is the kdusha of a shul. if you cant behave in shul in a kosher manner during the short time it takes to daven, you cant be in eretz yisroel. the zionim trample the torah and dont behave bkedusha. they should stay in the holy land? let them go to manhattan!
Milhouse
#9, Your daas is heipech of Torah.
1. You don’t even know what the word “dina” means. “Dina demalchusa dina” does not obligate anyone to do anything, or prohibit anyone from doing anything.
2. It probably doesn’t apply in Eretz Yisroel anyway.
3. Even if it did, it is preempted by Torah law, which forbids the conscription of women.
Milhouse
#10, the only stupidity and ignorance showing is yours. How can you not be aware that religious women are exempt from the army? So yes, just because she is frum she does not have to serve, and these resho’im should have known that just by looking at her.
Milhouse
#12, how many times do you have to be told, ALL the gedolei hatorah ruled that conscription of women is YEHOREG VE’AL YA’AVOR. That is why the government was forced to accept that any woman can get out of it just by declaring that she is religious. Because otherwise the entire religious community, including the zionists, would have resisted.
to#11
shut up, you never have anything intelligent or factual to say..
Anonim
What free schooling do Lubavitchers take from the medina? The Reshet schools are not for children of Anash.
Lubavitch gives far more to the medine, and to its citizens abroad, than the medine gives it.
This is probably the result of a dumb bureaucratic error, but as always the medine just compounds the mistake.
Dina demalchusa dina does NOT mean what people think it means, and it is doubtful whether it pertains to the memsheles hazadoin in Eretz Yisroel at all.
GadolHador
Dina d’malchuta dina! She has to serve, no exceptions. This is the ruling of the rabbanim and the Torah!
Akiva
For a religious girl to get exemption from IDF army service is easy, straightforward and 100% legal, but the simple steps must be followed. They are: the young lady wishing to get an exemption has to appear before the rabbinute office, declare herself religious (she may but not necessarily be asked for a report card or school letter to show she’s attending or attended a religious institution and she may or may not be asked a few very basic questions about yiddishkeit) and receives a certificate of religiousness. She then goes to the IDF draft office with her draft notice (which she receives 1 year before her draft date – meaning she has 1 full year to complete this process) and certificate of religiousness, and automatically receives a lifetime p’tor from IDF army service.
Not all rabbinut offices handle it, some send you to larger cities such as the Jerusalem rabbinut for the certification.
(As told to me by my daughter who just went through it.)
For reference, if a frum girl does choose to serve she will receive 100% female unit training (no mixed gender training / boot camp) and 100% tznius uniforms, with skirts provided and tailored to her preferred length (from knee to floor length), long sleeve tops and undershirts covering the neckline. The IDF will further attempt to provide a decent environment, which may be office work, radar reading (an all female unit), catering duty, etc – though not all such units are single gender.
Hashem Hu Malkeinu
Dina d’malchuta dina! She has to serve, no exceptions. This is the ruling of the rabbanim and the Torah!
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LOL!
Milhouse
It doesn’t matter whether she filled in a form, or it got lost, or whatever. The only relevant point is that it was obvious to the police as soon as they set eyes on her that she is exempt from conscription, so arresting her was pure rish’us.
Milhouse
#20, Name one thing I have ever written that was not true. Go on, I dare you. You have a big chutzpah to tell me to shut up. YOU should shut your filthy face and keep off this site.
MILHOUSE IS AMAZING
i always love seeing milhouse on comments sections.
he is one of those people that could definitely play jeopardy and win with flying colors.
it annoys me very much but he is usually some what correct.