An Israeli yeshiva student from Bnei Brak was arrested in Europe during the Passover holiday and remains in prison, according to the hareidi-religious Kikar Hashabat. Hareidi-religious community leaders (askanim) are working for his release.
The young man was arrested at an airport, raising concerns of a possible repeat of a case four years ago in which yeshiva students were jailed in Japan for drug smuggling; the students in that case say they were unaware that the drugs were in their luggage. A man working for the student’s release was quoted as saying that the current case is serious, “but not at the level of the Japan affair.”