Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court Judge Dr. Shaul Avinor acquitted a young Haredi man, a resident of the Old City of Jerusalem, of the charge of possessing a knife. This was due to a claim of selective enforcement by the police.
Channel 7 reported that the young man, Ron Simhon, was arrested at the Tel Aviv train station by security guards who discovered a knife in his possession. However, Simhon's detention by the security guard at the scene occurred at the same time as the detention of a female soldier, a naval officer, who was in possession of a similar knife.
The officer told police officers who were called to the scene that she had received the knife from American soldiers and that she was using it for secret purposes on a Navy ship. Following these claims, she was released on the spot.
Simhon, on the other hand, was detained, taken to the police station, interrogated, and ultimately indicted.
The fact that he was taken in for questioning, while the officer was immediately released without any procedure, the judge said, constitutes "selective enforcement.".
The judge added that the fact that the case involved a female officer is not sufficient to justify the different treatment between the two cases. "There is no doubt that the case of a female officer, let alone a captain, who serves the public in secret missions on Navy ships, is a matter worthy of sympathy.
""At the same time, there is a great distance between the justified and necessary sympathy for the role that the officer plays, in the interest of state security, and such a quick pardon for suspicion of committing a serious offense.".
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