Why is the "payment" for the young woman secret?
• Will she receive an appropriate punishment?
• And what is the obvious conclusion from the terrorist's refusal to move to Syria?
• Three comments on the deal • Opinion
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Let's talk for a moment about the "additional component" that Israel paid as part of the deal to return the young woman who fled to Syria to Israel.
From the details published in foreign sources, this is a negligible payment in terms of state budget, for vaccines that the Russians will transfer to Syria.
Relative to the prices Israel has paid in the past for soldiers, corpses and civilians who fell to its enemies, this is nothing and nothing.
Even the starting price of a terrorist sitting in an Israeli prison who refused to do his part in the deal was higher than the price paid.
So what, after all, caused the value of the "extra component" to increase?
Censorship of course.
Once it was decided that the "extra component" was secret and should not be published - it became a big story.
By the way, the publication of the same "component" would not have caused resentment in Israel and would have passed quietly, in my estimation.
Why was he subjected to media hype?
According to various reports, the other side, or in fact the other two sides to the deal, are the ones who demanded that it not be published in order not to embarrass the leadership in Damascus, which deprives its people of the money of the Zionist enemy.
For three days we have been talking here about the "ultra-Orthodox young woman" who crossed the border into Syria.
Although the young woman's details are still banned from publication, a browse of her Facebook page paints a picture of someone who is not an ultra-Orthodox at all.
On the contrary, she is a girl who has been traveling around the country (and a bit in the world for the past few years), declaring that she does not know the borders and that for her "there is no green line and no red line."
In one of the posts, she was photographed near the separation wall in the Bethlehem area and called it the "ghetto fence."
She also tells how she sometimes lives in a Jewish environment, sometimes with Christians and sometimes in the company of Muslims.
Sounds like it's less of an ultra-Orthodox and more of an anarchist looking for adventure.
Crossing the border into Syria must have felt like another adventure.
But this time the sequel was different and reality slapped her in the face.
Luckily for her and even more so for us, she fell into the right hands out of the possibilities beyond the border.
Imagine that instead of falling into the hands of Assad's men, she was held by Hezbollah members in the area.
What would happen if we turned on the TV and got to see a speech by Hassan Nasrallah, smug as ever, telling that he is holding a young Israeli woman in his hands and now demands a much higher price for his release?
Therefore, it is impossible to pass in silence on the dangerous step taken by the young woman.
If she is unsettled, mental health experts will determine that she is unfit to stand trial.
Mental inability to stand trial has clear rules.
Not every act that seems insane to us is necessarily exempt from criminal liability.
The system must not treat the young woman lightly and allow her to evade prosecution.
On the sidelines of the affair, it is important that we pay attention to the fact that a terrorist imprisoned in Israel preferred to remain in prison for many more years, provided that he is not deported to Syria.
This is not just a person with a marginal connection to terrorism, but a Hezbollah man who transferred two powerful explosives to Israeli territory, and planned to bury them in central places in order to murder as many Israelis as possible.
The attack was thwarted by chance after a farmer from the north found the explosives in his plantations.
The terrorist could have chosen to be released, move as part of the deal to Syria and from there easily join Hezbollah in Lebanon, and enjoy a respectable status and role in the terrorist organization.
And yet he preferred to stay in the Israeli prison - what does that say about the conditions of imprisonment in Israel?
What does this say about our situation in Israel compared to the situation with our neighbors to the north?
