The Rishon Magistrate's Court accepted the police request this evening (Saturday) and issued an order requiring a threatened woman to enter a shelter by Monday.
The woman is at the police station, her lawyer is expected to file an appeal and there is a delay in execution.
The police appeal to the court was made today in an unusual step after all efforts to convince the woman to enter the shelter due to the threats against her, failed.
Last night, investigators from the Lod Police Station transferred the woman, a resident of the city and a mother of four, to the police station to protect her life, after it was indicated that her life was in real danger, and after it became clear that she was being followed and following a shooting incident at her family's home this week.
The police stated that in light of the grave fear for her life and her refusal to move to a protective shelter, and after a situation assessment by the police, it was decided to bring her to one of the police stations in the area in order to protect her life, and this at the same time as an intensive investigation is being conducted in the area in order to arrest a suspect.
After the woman continued to refuse despite the pleadings of the investigators and welfare officials, as mentioned, the police, in an unusual step, appealed to the court and asked for a warrant to be issued.
As mentioned, he complied and issued an order requiring the woman to enter the shelter.
A lawyer intends to file an appeal against the decision.
The investigators of the police station in Lod and the Shepela region opened an investigation last night when there was concern that the woman was being followed and following a shooting incident at her family's home (there were no casualties).
"Asylum is not a prison"
The CEO of the LA Association for Violence Against Women, Verdit Danziger, said: "A shelter is not a prison, it is a place of protection and rehabilitation for the women living with violence in their homes, but when the woman refuses to move to the shelter, even though she is aware of the level of danger she is in, she cannot be forced The transition, certainly not by order."
The process of rehabilitation and getting out of the cycle of domestic violence can only be done when the woman voluntarily chooses to go to a shelter in accordance with the recommendation of the police but not under coercion," says Danziger, "when we in the shelters give her the tools, strengths and powers to do so." Most of the women work through an empowering and meaningful process in the shelter and together with them we We are building an exit plan for them from the cycle of violence.Unfortunately, this is not always enough.
The CEO of the LA Violence Association stated that the law enforcement system should understand and internalize that it is their duty to punish the attackers - to detain them for a long time, as part of protecting the victim, and not to release them after a few days.
Also, the justice system must exhaust the law with the attacker and sentence him to a deterrent and significant punishment.
"That way," says Verdit Danziger, "it will be possible to protect the woman."
Shelter is part of the solution, but not the only solution, and when a woman refuses this solution, it is the law enforcement authorities' duty to protect her in other ways, first and foremost by arresting the attackers and punishing them.'
Zehava Galon, who is currently running for the position of head of Meretz, said: "The role of the police is to protect women, not to imprison them."
It is unthinkable that instead of the potential murderers sitting in detention behind bars, the woman is imprisoned.
I demand that Minister Bar Lev personally intervene in the matter.'
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