The 'Return' Seduction Girl Confessed • Suspect: Did anyone look me in the eye?

October 17, 2021   

The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court today (Sunday) extended by eight days the detention of two men and a woman, former members of the 'Shuvo Banim' community, suspected of involvement in murders and disappearances that occurred in January 1986 and 1990 in Jerusalem. The three, who were arrested in a raid by police detectives, are suspected of premeditated murder, kidnapping for extortion and conspiracy to commit a crime. According to a report in 'Kan News', the police requested in a hearing to extend their detention from there, as they have to carry out about 30 investigative actions, most of which can be disrupted and therefore there is a reason for arrest of dangerousness. Judge Elad Lang said in his decision that there is reasonable suspicion of committing the offenses attributed to the first suspect whose detention was extended. The suspect denied the allegations attributed to him during his interrogation. During the hearing, he also said: "Did anyone see me with their eyes? Tell me now." The second person is suspected of murder and kidnapping. The police representative presented the judge with a confidential report. The police prosecutor said in the hearing at the Magistrate's Court that the first suspect was a partner in committing the two murders in 1986 and 1990. The prosecutor was not prepared to say whether the bodies of the boy Nissim Sheetrit and Avraham Edri were found, but noted that an open statement was taken from the suspect in March 1986 - about two months after the boy Nissim Sheetrit disappeared. The suspect was not questioned at that time about the murder of Avraham Edri. The court extended his detention by eight days, and he is suspected of, among other things, two murders. Regarding the suspect, her lawyer said that she said that she was a prostitute and that she belonged to Rabbi Eliezer Berland's 'Shuvo Banim'. "This is a truth that was used for the purpose of one incident. She said that she was asked to seduce a certain person and bring him to a certain place," the lawyer added. According to News 12, the suspect admitted to investigators that others forced her to lure a certain person to a certain place. The woman is suspected of involvement only in the Nissim Sheetrit affair. Haredim 10 learned that the suspect was detained ten days ago for a routine check, but as far as is known, she was not questioned. This morning she was arrested again. According to a report on News 13, she said during her interrogation: "I was taken advantage of by Rabbi Berland's people. I was the girl of temptation. They asked me to call the boy Nissim Sheetrit and lure him to a certain place. When he got there, there were other people there and I don't know what happened anymore. They are bad people." Her arrest was extended by eight days. Another suspect said: "I know a lot of things but I will not reveal anything." Later in the hearing, the judge ruled in his decision that the second suspect who was brought to court is silent and sometimes denies it, but from time to time associates himself with the factual context of the events, and his arrest was also finally extended by eight days. [Gallery]

The woman and one of the suspects

The detainees are suspected of operating within the framework of the Chastity Guards and are involved in two cases: In one case, it concerns the January 1986 case of Nissim Sheetrit's absence. Sheetrit, 17 years old at the time of his absence, lived in Jerusalem. Before his absence, he was attacked by Haredim near the yeshiva where he studied in Ashdod. He later identified one of his attackers in Jerusalem, called the police, and the suspect was arrested. Sheetrit and his family began to receive threats, demanding that he drop his complaint, but he did not agree. After some time, while working in the Knesset, he received a phone call and left the Mishkan. That evening, he was last seen in central Jerusalem. It is suspected that Sheetrit was murdered by the 'Chastity Guards.' The second case occurred in 1990: Avraham Edri worked at the 'Vay'imer Yitzhak' yeshiva in the Shimon Ha-Tzadik neighborhood of Jerusalem. One evening, he told his wife that he was going to the yeshiva, and it was known that he arrived there, left it, and disappeared. His absence was reported to the police and the next day his body was found in the Ramot forest. Details of the affair were revealed in the documentary "The Hidden Rabbi" by director Shani Haziza, which aired on KAN on February 11, 2020 - a film that led to today's arrests.