Hours after she was released by the court, the police arrested the teacher from Bnei Brak once again this evening on suspicion that she trespassed in Rabbinate Kook’s house in Tiberias A police source: “The court acts against the public interest. The many arrests come at the expense of urgent incidents that the police have to deal with”
First publication: The police arrested the ultra-Orthodox woman, a resident of Bnei Brak, once again this evening (Sunday). on suspicion of trespassing in Rabbi Leah Kook’s home in the city of Tiberias. RThis morning the woman, a teacher by profession, was released by the court’s decision. Immediately after the release, the woman returned to the Rabbi’s house and her family members called the police.
A police official who spoke to ‘Bachderi Haredim’ said that by actually releasing her time and time again, “the court is acting against the public interest”. According to the source, “the numerous arrests cost the state a great deal of money and come at the expense of urgent incidents that the police have to deal with. Beyond harming the rabbi’s and his family’s daily routine, the arrest procedures entail many expenses – both in the police who have to treat the woman repeatedly and in court time, the days of the arrest And the defense attorneys appointed by the Public Defender’s Office.
The MBB teacher was arrested for the 22nd time: the law enforcement officers are at a loss
The teacher from Bnei Brak was released unconditionally: “The punishments spurred her on”
As reported earlier, the court released the woman this morning without restrictive conditions after she was arrested once again on suspicion of trespassing at Rabbi Leah Kook’s house in the city of Tiberias. The teacher was arrested on Friday for the 22nd time and after serving over a year in prison in total, since she started coming to Beit Rabbini in 2018.
Corporal Aviv Ben Zino, a police officer at the Tiberias station, told Behaderi Haredim: “This is a complex story. The woman, who has a master’s degree and was a teacher in the past, has been coming to the rabbinical house for a long time and harassing her family members, despite the fact that she has an order to remove her from the place After we saw that there was no choice, we were forced to file charges against her during the days of detention. In the last two weeks, she returned to bothering the family members.”
“For some reason, the court believes that the offenses themselves are not sufficient for arrest until the end of the proceedings, and goes against the police in this matter, which could have brought the saga to an end,” adds Rabbi Aviv Ben Zino. “In the end, this could end in a more serious incident.”
“There are no words to describe, we are at a loss,” the police representative tried to explain the complex situation in court this morning. “We have no tools to deal with a repeated incident. We have nothing but to act according to the tools we have. As soon as we have a complaint from a complainant who is disturbed and another person enters his private territory, we treat the complaint as the law instructs us, and after countless warnings we are also forced to stop it. A court even ordered several periods of imprisonment in the past. Under the existing circumstances, we have no other way and we have no solution to this matter other than her arrest and continued treatment with the tools at our disposal.” The police asked the court to extend her detention by five days.
The teacher was arrested for the first time four years ago, when she arrived in the courtyard of the rabbi’s house. However, unlike the hundreds of other women, the woman insisted on staying put and damaged the daily routine of the household members, according to them.
Since then, as mentioned, the teacher has been arrested dozens of times, and has even served prison sentences, but so far she has not provided an explanation for her motives. On Friday, the teacher was arrested once more, and since the police had difficulty collecting evidence against the sanctity of the Sabbath, her detention was extended until today. At the hearing held at the Magistrate’s Court in Tiberias, it was decided to release her.
“I share the frustration of the parties,” said the judge in his decision to release the teacher. “Punishments imposed on the accused not only did not help but only encouraged her to repeat similar offenses and even demand more severe punishments. Unfortunately, it turned out that punishment is not the way to solve the problem when the suspect refuses to detail her sources. The suspect is not a danger to the public and despite the trouble and harassment she is cause the rabbi and her family members, I don’t think there is any room for continued detention.”