Defense Minister Yoav Gallant signed an order on Tuesday (Oct. 29th) placing Elyakim Harel, a resident of Binyamin, in administrative detention for 6 months. Elyakim's father, Rav Ara’le Harel, responded to his son's detention and criticized Gallant's actions. The father said that he has a son currently fighting in Lebanon and multiple sons-in-law fighting in Gaza.
Rav Harel said: "As a father, I worry about my son who is currently fighting in Lebanon and my sons-in-law who are fighting in Gaza. Now I also have to deal with Elyakim being detained without a trial and without us knowing why. I used to be naive and believed we were a country that follows the rule of law- if a person commits a crime, an indictment is filed against them and evidence is brought. Instead, they took a 19-year-old boy, with no criminal record, without any explanation, and placed him under a politically motivated administrative detention. We are in great pain and ask the public to pray for his well-being," said the father.
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Attorney Daniel Shimshilashvili from the Honenu legal aid organization, which is representing Elyakim, responded to the administrative order and said: "The best of our boys from Judea and Samaria are falling at war, and meanwhile Gallant chooses to place their brother in administrative detention. Some of our leaders, who remain in their positions despite their disgraceful failure to protect us from our enemies, also remain trapped in their prior misconceptions. Minister Galalnt has proved once again that in his war against the Jewish pioneers in Judea and Samaria, his focus remains the same- on placing young men behind lock and key without evidence or a trial."
Notably, Elyakim Harel's family is not the only case where one brother is in administrative detention while others are on the frontlines. The father of Moshe Nechushtan, who is in administrative detention, is currently called up from the reserves to serve in Gaza and Samaria; the brother of Avraham Shapira in administrative detention, has also served in the reserves most of the year, and the brother of Uriah Ben Nathan, who was arrested by the Shin Bet, was killed in Lebanon.
Thus we see, yet again, that the very people who pay heavy prices living every day on the frontlines in Judea and Samaria and who are now paying even more heavy prices serving on the frontlines in the wars in Gaza and Lebanon, continue to suffer from relentless persecution by the Jewish Division in the Shin Bet and the leaders of the Israeli Defense Establishment.
