Until this morning, Federman - against whom no charges have been brought, and who was even released from prison recently because of lack of evidence - was held in the Ashmoret Prison, where his cell was within earshot of Arab terrorists and their non-stop taunts and threats to kill him. His attorney Naftali Wurtzberger wrote a letter to Public Security Minister Tzachi HaNegbi, holding the police department and HaNegbi responsible for any dangers encountered by his client. The judge in Federman's case had ordered him moved to a different prison even before Rosh HaShanah, but only this morning did the transfer take place.
The orders stipulating that he must be returned to Ashmoret on the day after Sukkot, October 19, are signed by Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz.
"It's incomprehensible," his wife Elisheva told Arutz-7's Yosef Meiri today. "Are his religious rights [to be in a Jewish prison for the holidays] more important than his very life? To return him to Ashmoret with all the terrorist animals is a risk to his life!" The oldest of the Federmans' seven children will be Bat Mitzvah next month.
Not only right-wing Jews are appalled by the Federman case, reports David Wilder of Hevron. Writing in an Israeli daily on September 30, left-wing MK Zahava Gal'on of Meretz declared, "Noam Federman should be put on trial or released. Circumventing the law rather than upholding it points to hysteria and confusion, and does not achieve its purpose."
Supporters of Federman have organized an on-line petition addressed to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who oversees the General Security Services, and Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz, which can be accessed at "www.petitiononline.com/federman/petition.html".
The orders stipulating that he must be returned to Ashmoret on the day after Sukkot, October 19, are signed by Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz.
"It's incomprehensible," his wife Elisheva told Arutz-7's Yosef Meiri today. "Are his religious rights [to be in a Jewish prison for the holidays] more important than his very life? To return him to Ashmoret with all the terrorist animals is a risk to his life!" The oldest of the Federmans' seven children will be Bat Mitzvah next month.
Not only right-wing Jews are appalled by the Federman case, reports David Wilder of Hevron. Writing in an Israeli daily on September 30, left-wing MK Zahava Gal'on of Meretz declared, "Noam Federman should be put on trial or released. Circumventing the law rather than upholding it points to hysteria and confusion, and does not achieve its purpose."
Supporters of Federman have organized an on-line petition addressed to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who oversees the General Security Services, and Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz, which can be accessed at "www.petitiononline.com/federman/petition.html".