Overview
- Yitzchak Horowitz, a BeKehila magazine reporter who reached Kuwait due to wartime flight disruptions, was detained after photographing American patrol ships and later released without charges.
- Police searching his bag found tefillin, small black boxes with Torah verses worn with straps during Jewish prayer, and first treated them as possible communications gear.
- Interrogators asked if he was Iranian, Israeli, or tied to Mossad, checked his passport and phone, and showed bombing footage he said was from Lebanon despite officers calling it Gaza.
- He says senior officials reviewed his case, told him he could call his ambassador, and let him go after several hours in custody.
- After his release, he recounted a Kuwaiti contact saying the war is shifting some views toward Israel, and both reports rely on his first-person account with no official Kuwaiti comment.