Overview
- The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court ordered nine days of house arrest for Miriam Friedman and Mali Shmuel under restrictive conditions.
- The ruling bars childcare employment for 45 days, prohibits contact with parents and others in the case for 30 days, and keeps both away from the daycare.
- Police are investigating reckless manslaughter and negligent supervision and later added suspicions of abuse, assault of a minor, and leaving a child without supervision.
- Autopsies and toxicology results are pending and expected to take weeks, leaving the cause of the infants' deaths unresolved.
- A bereaved mother testified in court that the caregivers are innocent, and multiple parents issued a public letter supporting the staff as a religious group announced a protest.