'Haredi 'defectors' who were arrested in recent days at Ben Gurion Airport, many of them while returning from training after Rosh Hashanah, were granted amnesty on the occasion of Yom Kippur - and were released before the end of their allotted detention period.
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A similar amnesty was also granted to deserters on Rosh Hashanah Eve. At the time, the IDF said: "These are IDF regulations that are implemented and continuous, without any interference or influence from a political echelon.".
According to a report on the Ynet website, in the past 24 hours, about 20 young Haredi men who returned from Uman were arrested, after their return to Israel took several days due to the lack of direct flights from Ukraine to Israel and due to congestion at the small airports in Romania and Moldova.
Attorney Shlomo Hadad, who represents ultra-Orthodox defectors, said that there are dozens of cases. "The amnesty procedure for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is a familiar and routine procedure that takes place every year. It is regrettable that precisely when it comes to the ultra-Orthodox public, the issue receives special attention and sometimes even inappropriate criticism.".
""It is important to emphasize – an ultra-Orthodox tax evader is treated like any other tax evader, and there is no room for distinctions or discrimination between populations.".
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