Rabbi Eliezer Berland was brought this morning (Tuesday) to extend his detention in the Magistrate's Court after he was arrested yesterday on suspicion of involvement in the murder and absence events from more than 30 years ago.
During the hearing, Rabbi Berland fainted in front of the cameras.
As you may recall, a number of suspects were arrested on suspicion of being involved in the absence of the boy Nissim Sheetrit in 1986 and the murder of Avraham Deri in 1990.
Some of the suspects are members of Rabbi Eliezer Berland's "Shuvu Banim" congregation.
Rabbi Berland.
Some of his followers were arrested // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon,
A few months before the disappearance of Sheetrit, who was 17 at the time of the incident and whose body was never found, he was abducted from the yeshiva in Ashdod where he studied, and beaten by the chastity guard, who threatened him not to go out with girls he knew in his capital.
The boy Nissim Sheetrit // Photo: without credit,
He later met a man named Mike, with whom he hung out for about a week, until his traces disappeared after a meeting the two held in central Jerusalem.
Police suspected that the man was a messenger of the chastity shift, who decided to kill him and hide his body, but he fled to the Netherlands the year Sheetrit disappeared.
