A Haredi deserter arrested yesterday afternoon on Highway 6 was brought to court today and sentenced to 14 days in military prison, according to Israeli reports.
A Haredi draft deserter arrested Tuesday afternoon at a gas station on Highway 6 was sentenced Wednesday to 14 days in military prison, Israeli reports said. The arrest — initially reported by a Haredi aid organization and cited by Eli Hirshman — was followed by a court appearance on Wednesday, with the sentence handed down that day. The development follows a sequence of similar arrests and protests over recent weeks.
The Zioneer reported Tuesday at 13:06 Jerusalem that traffic police had arrested Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Duvdevani, a Haredi avrech, on Highway 6. A subsequent bulletin at the same time identified the arrested individual as a draft deserter, citing a Haredi assistance organization. By the same timestamp, a third update confirmed the deserter was a family man who had been sentenced to 14 days in military prison after being handed over by police. The initial identification of the arrestee by name has not appeared in later reports, and the court proceedings remain unattributed beyond Israeli media.
The Zioneer previously reported on June 11 that Haredi protests had spread to multiple cities after earlier draft dodger arrests, with a violent incident on Highway 6. Separately, on June 23, MK Oded Forer (Yisrael Beiteinu) accused Prime Minister Netanyahu of prioritizing coalition deals with ultra-Orthodox parties over soldier safety, amid moves to legislate against draft-dodger arrests.
No court details, the identity of the sentenced individual beyond the family-man description, or any statement from the IDF or the defendant have been provided in the reports reviewed.
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