Eliyahu Cohen, a yeshiva student who was arrested by police on Monday night for failing to report to a "first order," was sentenced to 20 days in a military prison, where he will also spend Passover.
Cohen was tried in the military court in Jaffa and will be transferred to Prison Six to serve his sentence.
At the residence of the Haredi Auerbach in the Shaarei Chesed neighborhood in Jerusalem, consultations have already begun regarding holding protests, on a scale never seen before, while maintaining contact with all circles in Haredi Judaism. "It is impossible for the army to continue arresting Torah scholars, when the excuse of 'routine checks' is insufficient," they say there.
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Cohen, a resident of Ashdod's 9th District, a student at the Nahalat David Yeshiva in the Har Nof neighborhood in Jerusalem, was arrested by military police on Monday night as he was leaving with his family from a family event in the city of Elad. His father was driving the car. Police officers, who set up a police checkpoint at the exit from the city to search for suspects, took the details of all the passengers in the car, and when they reached the young man, they discovered that he was 'wanted for questioning' by the police.
His family does not belong to the Karlenstein Haredi community in Ashdod, but lives in District 9, and therefore it is unclear why he decided not to report to the draft office, and whether this was the instruction he received from his yeshiva rabbis.
