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Court: Emmanuel Women to Jail
On Wednesday the High Court ruled that 9 of the mothers from Emmanuel should be jailed after their husbands complete their sentences — despite recommendations against this by the Welfare Ministry and the Council for the Welfare of Children. According to the schedule given by the High Court, the imprisonment will continue even during the school vacation time, when the parents have no ability to fulfill the court order and thus there is no contempt of court.
Background on the Situation at Emmanuel
The trouble in Emmanuel really started in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Givat Shaul where there is a Bais Yaakov elementary school whose principal is Rebbetzin Yocheved Eliashiv, the daughter-in-law of Maran HaRav Eliashiv shlita. As with all Bais Yaakovs, it accepts girls from all ethnic backgrounds as long as they and their homes meet the standards of the school. When Yoav Lalum applied to send his daughter to the school, the principal undertook a routine check to see if he and his daughter fit with the standards of the school. They found this not to be the case, and did not admit the girl.
In the wake of the terrible slander of the Israeli High Court against our precious brethren in the Holy Land community of Emmanuel dedicated to the word of Hashem, who have been sent to prison for their devotion to the religious education of their daughters, we protest mightily the outrage and sin committed against them, and the twisted decision to force upon them a system of education that is against their way of life and the opinion of their rabbis.
"Turning to the High Court was a mistake," said Shas Chairman Minister Eli Yishai, during a Shas meeting in the Knesset to discuss the Emmanuel affair. "Going to the High Court did not lead to a solution of any kind. Sending people to jail did not lead to a solution of any kind."
Harsh criticism was lodged against Israel's court system and other secular institutions for ethnic discrimination against Sephardim as these same institutions openly incite and discriminate against the chareidi public. This point was made during the weekly United Torah Judaism meeting, held Monday at the protest tents pitched outside the gates of Maasiyahu Prison in Ramle, where 35 fathers — both Ashkenazim and Sephardim — are being held after the High Court sentenced them to two weeks behind bars for their insistence on educating their daughters in keeping with tradition and the guidance of their rabbonim.
Cloaked in mourning thousands were on hand Monday night to lay to rest HaRav Mordechai Eliyahu zt"l, a talmid chochom and the author of numerous books, who served as a dayan and a marbitz Torah for decades. He passed away in Jerusalem on Monday at the age of 81. The levaya, led by rabbonim and dayonim, set out from his beis medrash in Jerusalem's Kiryat Moshe neighborhood.
R' Reuven Nadal z"l, 37, of Modi'in Illit inhaled toxins and suffocated after being exposed to sulfuric acid in a storeroom used for tefillin production on Rechov Chasam Sofer. Hatzoloh and Magen David Adom paramedics summoned to the site of the work accident began performing CPR, but were unable to revive him. After half an hour an MDA physician pronounced him dead. He left behind a wife and eight children.
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