The son of Rehavam Zeevi, who is accused of murdering the boy Nissim Sheetrit 35 years ago, has been released under house arrest
About six months after he was charged with the murder of the boy Nissim Sheetrit, the Supreme Court ruled that Benjamin Zeevi, the son of the former minister, would be released under house arrest and stay in a building prepared for his absorption on an agricultural farm in Gush Etzion.
The decision raises concerns about the arrest of the second suspect in the act, Baruch Sharvit
Shlomi Heller
04/07/2022
Monday, 04 July 2022, 01:28 Updated: 19:34
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In the video: Binyamin Zeevi in a video call in a discussion about the reading of the indictment against him (Photo: Roni Knafo, editor: Tal Reznik)
The Supreme Court today (Monday) rejected the appeal filed by the State Attorney's Office against the decision to release Benjamin Zeevi, the son of former Minister Rehavam Zeevi, the defendants suspected in the murder and disappearance case in Jerusalem.
As part of this affair, Eliezer Berland and seven followers of the Shuvu Banim congregation led by him were arrested.
Now, there is concern that the decision will lead to the release of more suspects.
According to the court order, Zeevi will stay at the Kashuala agricultural farm in Gush Etzion.
The Prison Service's stronghold unit, in charge of electronic supervision of detainees and prisoners released under house arrest, gave its opinion on the matter and said that Zeevi's release to the building, a farm trained for residence, is applicable and there is no impediment to his supervision.
The unit even complied with a number of completions that would regulate the transfer of Zeevi from prison to an alternative to detention on the farm.
"Significant risk-reducing factors"
In its decision, Judge Gila Kanfei Steinitz said that "the district court performed its job and examined the alternative to detention proposed by the respondent, in accordance with the decision of this court. The District Court states that the arrest of the respondent under electronic supervision at the said farm, accompanied by human supervision, can provide an appropriate response to the danger posed by the respondent. "
The judge further said that although the act attributed to Zeevi "is one of the most serious in the law book, and the danger makes it clear. .
However, the judge demanded a bail of NIS 250,000 as an additional measure against the violation of the conditions of detention.
Fears that the decision will lead to the release of more suspects.
Benjamin Zeevi (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)
Many are now worried that the decision to release Zeevi under house arrest may pave the way for the release of the second accused of murder - Baruch Sharvit, who joined the Shuvu Banim community in the 1980s and remained loyal to Rabbi Berland for many years.
In the meantime, six months after the indictment was filed, the legal proceedings of the two are not progressing.
In Sharvit's case, no significant progress was made due to the non-appointment of a permanent defense attorney, Zeevi only recently appointed lawyers to represent him in the case, apparently due to legal procrastination.
According to the indictments, which were filed through attorneys Geula Cohen and Shira Natan, Zeevi and Baruch Sharabi were complicit in the murder of Nissim Sheetrit, as part of the chastity guards' activities on behalf of the Shuvu Banim community, headed by Rabbi Berland. The chastity guards a few months before his death, due to their suspicion that he was having meetings with women, contrary to custom.
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He was abducted to a forest in the Beit Shemesh area, where he was severely beaten.
Nissim Sheetrit (Photo: Official website, from "The Hidden Rabbi", courtesy here 11)
Later, to make him stop meeting women, Berland and his men planned to beat and threaten him once more, and so it was done.
In January 1986 after her lips reached the apartment, he was beaten by the defendants and others.
From the apartment, he was abducted to a forest in the Beit Shemesh area, where the defendants joined other people and all of them hit Sheetrit hard on his body and head.
A few minutes later one of the attackers declared him dead, and the defendants and their friends buried him in the woods.
Berland has for years been considered one of the most charismatic leaders in Breslav Hasidism.
At his "Shuvu Banim" yeshiva, hundreds of followers gathered around him and many repented.
According to the indictments, "Berland and his followers acted with cynical and cruel exploitation of hundreds of citizens and their families, who were in their most difficult time, and demanded tens of thousands of shekels from them for blessings, safe redemptions and healing."
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