BS"D
URGENT -- PIDYON SHVUYIM:
Reported Israeli Army Persecution of an Epileptic Religious Ethiopian Girl
בס"ד
13 Shvat, 5780 °° Parshas Beshalach °° Jan. 26, '21
By Binyomin Feinberg
Our
readers may have seen our recent post about the plight of a religious
girl recently imprisoned in Military Prison over her refusal to submit
to the Israeli Army female draft (http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2021/01/BSD-is-israel-asking-for-yet-more.html).
B"H, she obtained military draft exemption and was released shortly
after that post. However, today, we've received credible information
that, right now, a mitzvah-observant, 24 year-old young woman with
epilepsy is suffering in Military Prison Six, in Northern Israel, for
her refusal to submit to the female military draft. Tadalah bas
Mantjavush hails from a religious Ethiopian Jewish family in central
Israel. She was recently imprisoned for her steadfast refusal to
compromise her Jewish faith or her personal purity.
About six years ago, shortly after being drafted into the IDF, Tadalah fled
the promiscuous Army environment, after witnessing first-hand the
exploitive Army hefkeirus, which, many argue, renders the Army wholly
unfit for any woman. Just recently, Tadalah was caught by the government
in the course of an unrelated interaction with a law enforcement
officer. After identifying her, they flagged her for being absent from
the Army, for a period of approximately six years.
The Israeli
government ensures that religious objectors suffer deprivation and
indignities in Military Prison. What compounds the difficulty for
Tadalah is that she reportedly has epilepsy, which is potentially
life-threatening. Thus she needs constant supervision - not reliably
being provided in jail. Consequently, this is piku'ach nefesh, even
more so than the average case of girls incarcerated in Military Prison.
Why
the formidable Israeli military needs an epileptic soldier remains
somewhat of a mystery. This case is also reminiscent of the past
(antireligious) persecution of individual girls and women, which,
throughout history, has a demonstrated capacity to bring on awesome
Divine Retribution. For example, the Pirkei DeRebbi Eliezer, ch. 48,
relates how the Egyptian persecution of one Jewish mother triggered the
downfall of the mighty Egyptian empire via the Exodus (quoted by Rav
Meshulum Dovid Soloveichik Shlit"a, Droshos, end; cf. Radal ibid., 93,
99).
Tadalah faces a hearing tommorow, Wednesday Jan. 27, reliant
on a government lawyer. If, Chas VeSholom, her case doesn't fare well,
she could be facing grueling months in Military Prison for her
"absence" from the Army.
The
antireligious secularist Israeli Establishment has exhibited a
penchant for racism against Ethiopian Jews - and other Jews of color -
commensurate with it's well-demonstrated anti-Torah, anti-Jewish animus.
Ethiopian Jews suffer incarceration in Israeli Military Prison in
disproportionate numbers. Because they are naturally refined, they don't
take well to the very un-Jewish, coarse mistreatment rampant in the
Army. Many even commit suicide, R"L, under the abusive mistreatment they
endure under the pervasive secularist military regimen.
»» The tzibbur is requested to please take a few seconds to daven for Tadalah bas Mantjavush.
»» For more information, please text or call 845.642.1679.
»»
A 24-hour Israeli Hotline for any female, independent of religious
background, who encounters problems with the Draft Offices, or who has
encountered sexual mistreatment in or by the Israeli Army, is
03.721.3337.
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"... And if someone, like
Pinchos, is one among a multitude, and every man is against him when he
dares to speak out for truth and to fight for the Law -- the more lonely
his stand, the greater the number of his adversaries, the more powerful
is his word, the mightier his deed."
-- Rav Shamshon Raphael Hirsch OB"M (1808-1888), (in "Judaism Eternal," vol. 2, p. 293)
