Jewish mother and four children rescued from Arab village
A Jewish mother and her four children have been rescued from an abusive husband in an Arab village and sent to South America, at least temporarily.The story began just a week ago, when a tearful man arrived in Yad L’Achim offices in Bnei Brak on Tuesday evening and asked to speak directly with the director, Rabbi Shalom Dov Lifshitz. He explained that his sister had married an Arab several years ago, but was now trapped in his village somewhere in Palestinian Authority-controlled area, prevented even from leaving her house.Read the whole thing.
Yad L’Achim has faced this situation many times in the past, and a task force was quickly set up to collect the necessary information and determine a plan of action. The one opening seemed to be that the next day, Wednesday, she had been granted special permission by her Arab husband/master to leave for a one-time, important purchase – but only with three of her children; one of them was to be left behind in the care of a local Arab woman, to ensure that she would return.
The only thing that Yad L’Achim is willing to say about the rescue effort is that “miraculously, the woman and all four of her children were rescued.” How this occurred is not being publicized, for fear of jeopardizing future rescues of this nature. “All I can say,” said Rabbi Lifshitz, “is that there were miracles of people seeing and not seeing, and things were done that should normally have aroused attention, and with G-d’s kindness, everything transpired successfully.”
The woman and her children were taken to the nearest checkpoint, and with the help and cooperation of “local elements,” they were brought into area under Israeli jurisdiction, and from there, to a secret apartment.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:16 PM
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Pfffft!
Who needs the A-Team!!!
In some ways this article reminds me of the case a few weeks ago of a Jerusalem Arab getting convicted of rape for passing himself off as a Jew. The world media had a field day with that one, accusing Israel of protecting Jewish daughters from tainted gentiles and referring to it as blatant racism.
I wonder whether the world press ever runs these stories of whisking Jewish women out of abusive marriages with Arab men. Obviously it would be a sticky story for a left-wing journalist to present, since the mainstream press tends to sugar-coat Arab culture and society.
Remember this story when YadL'Achim comes asking for funds......
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