Rabbi Eliezer Berland transferred from 'Nitzan' prison to detention in a new secret location

April 11, 2021   

Rabbi Eliezer Berland, leader of the Shuvo Banim community, was transferred this evening (Sunday) to house arrest under restrictive conditions and electronic handcuffing - in a secret home in central Israel, as ordered by the court. This is after Rabbi Berland had been in Nitzan Prison in Ramla since last Wednesday, as he had not yet been approved for an alternative to detention, until the new location was approved and arranged. The leader of the 'Shuvu Banim' movement was brought to Nitzan Prison last Wednesday, where he was imprisoned and hospitalized at the Prison Service Medical Center. This was after his niece and husband, who had hosted him under house arrest in Zichron Yaakov for the past two months, refused to accept him back into their home - since the place of detention was revealed, and his people who settled there violated the neighbors' daily routine. Revealing the location was also in violation of the conditions set by the court, which stipulated that the location of the detention be kept secret from members of the community. Attorney Amit Hadad, Rabbi Berland's attorney, has been negotiating with the prosecutor's office in recent days regarding an alternative place of detention, and on Wednesday he informed the court that he had reached agreements with the prosecutor's office on another alternative place. The new location received the court's approval, and today, as mentioned, after all the necessary security measures were arranged, he was transferred. Rabbi Berland was transferred to detention at Nitzan Prison in Ramla on Wednesday, after being released from Hillel Yaffe Hospital, where he was hospitalized on Monday - After it was alleged that he fell and was injured at his niece's house.