Mother of six and expelled northern Shomron resident Miriam Adler has been sentenced to three months in jail or its equivalent in public service. Her crime: Attacking a policeman during a Disengagement-related protest.
The incident occurred shortly before the Disengagement in August 2005, when police came to arrest her and her husband for their vocal and active opposition to the expulsion. As she told Arutz-7 last year:
"Behind this seemingly fragile person hides a violent, aggressive and dangerous personality," Judge Clara Rejenino ruled Thursday. "She does not regret her crimes and she plans to commit them again... The public welfare demands that she be sent to jail, and she must be taught a lesson... " However, the judge continued, because the defendant has six children, she said that Miriam may perform public service works instead, in addition to an 11-month probationary sentence, as well as what Miriam called the "most maddening of all," a 1,000-shekel compensation to be paid to the policeman.
Miriam said this week that her complaint of the policeman's violence against her was not investigated at all, "while their indictment against me is purposely designed to destroy any spark of opposition and resistance to the regime's actions... I was convicted, of course, and the Prosecution asked for a stiff sentence in order to educate me for my lack of surrender and cooperation with the courts and police."
Miriam said she hopes her struggle will help others who are in the same position: "If many people join, we can beat the current law system. It could be that individuals will have to pay a price along the way, but that's how it is in war - and this is war."
"True, this State was to be the beginning of our Redemption," she told Arutz-7 last year, "but I'm not so sure anymore. In any event, I care about it and about our People too much to merely go along with them, as if this were some foreign country. This country is mine, and I feel a responsibility to the People of Israel, and I hope that my gestures will be a step along the right path."
The incident occurred shortly before the Disengagement in August 2005, when police came to arrest her and her husband for their vocal and active opposition to the expulsion. As she told Arutz-7 last year:
We lived [in 2005-6] in Sa-Nur, one of the four Shomron communities destroyed in the Disengagement. My husband and I were both placed in jail, in administrative detention, for the two critical weeks of the expulsion, so that our children had to go through it without us.Miriam, who grew up with her refusenik-parents and two younger siblings in a one-room apartment in Moscow, showed up at future hearings, but did not participate, explaining that she refuses to recognize the justice system.
When they arrested me, it was very violent; the police charged me with violence, and I charged them with the same. My complaint was of course ignored, but their charges that I had attacked a policeman were taken very seriously. They called me in several times and I didn't show up. Finally, [in August 2006], instead of conducting the hearings without me, as they often do in these cases, the judge decided to order my arrest.
The police came with a very large force to our home in Tal Menashe, and it took them five hours to get past all the protestors and finally arrest me. I was in jail overnight, and then in the morning they threatened me that I would sit in prison until the end of the proceedings against me. I admitted defeat - I have children at home, and I couldn't allow myself to remain in prison; I was even afraid that they would take my baby away from me - and so I agreed to their conditions.
"Behind this seemingly fragile person hides a violent, aggressive and dangerous personality," Judge Clara Rejenino ruled Thursday. "She does not regret her crimes and she plans to commit them again... The public welfare demands that she be sent to jail, and she must be taught a lesson... " However, the judge continued, because the defendant has six children, she said that Miriam may perform public service works instead, in addition to an 11-month probationary sentence, as well as what Miriam called the "most maddening of all," a 1,000-shekel compensation to be paid to the policeman.
Miriam said this week that her complaint of the policeman's violence against her was not investigated at all, "while their indictment against me is purposely designed to destroy any spark of opposition and resistance to the regime's actions... I was convicted, of course, and the Prosecution asked for a stiff sentence in order to educate me for my lack of surrender and cooperation with the courts and police."
Miriam said she hopes her struggle will help others who are in the same position: "If many people join, we can beat the current law system. It could be that individuals will have to pay a price along the way, but that's how it is in war - and this is war."
"True, this State was to be the beginning of our Redemption," she told Arutz-7 last year, "but I'm not so sure anymore. In any event, I care about it and about our People too much to merely go along with them, as if this were some foreign country. This country is mine, and I feel a responsibility to the People of Israel, and I hope that my gestures will be a step along the right path."