Shas MK Yoav Ben-Tzur visited Prison 10 on Sunday morning to support haredi men imprisoned for evading military service, journalist Eli Hirschman reports. The visit follows a similar one by two other Shas lawmakers to the same facility earlier this week.
Shas MK Yoav Ben-Tzur visited Prison 10 on Sunday morning to show support for haredi men incarcerated for evading mandatory military service, as reported by journalist Eli Hirschman. The visit comes amid ongoing tensions between the ultra-Orthodox community and the state over the haredi draft law, which has seen a number of yeshiva students refuse enlistment and face imprisonment.
This is the third known MK visit to the same facility in a week. On Tuesday, Shas MKs Yosef Tayeb and Yitzhak Mshariki toured Prison 10 to assess conditions of detained yeshiva students and boost morale, as The Zioneer reported at the time. The repeat attention from parliamentarians underscores the political sensitivity of the conscription issue within the coalition.
The report is based on a single source—a social media post by Hirschman—and the purpose of the visit (whether purely supportive or part of a wider political effort) has not been independently clarified.
2 developments
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