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 an alternative to detention had not yet been approved for him, until the new location was approved and arranged.
The leader of "Shuvu Banim" was brought to Nitzan Prison last Wednesday, where he was imprisoned and hospitalized at the Prison Service Medical Center.
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This was after his niece and her husband, who hosted him under house arrest in Zichron Yaakov for the past two months, refused to welcome him back into their home - because the place of detention was exposed, and his people who settled there disrupted the neighbors' daily routine.
Revealing the location was also contrary to the conditions set by the court, which stipulated that the location of the arrest 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 an agreement 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 claimed that he fell and was injured at his niece's house.
