Overview
- Thousands packed the Nadvorna beis medrash in Bnei Brak on Sunday night to greet yeshiva students detained for failing to enlist.
- The reception, organized by Chayei Olam and Ezram U’Maginam, featured leading rabbis including Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, Rav Dov Landau, and Rav Chaim Feinstein.
- Speakers praised the detainees’ resolve and framed the detentions as an assault on Torah study and spiritual life in Israel.
- Rav Dov Landau warned that imprisoning learners means “the Torah itself is in prison” and said representatives are working to prevent further arrests.
- Reports from the event highlighted the release of two students from military prison, naming Yitzchak Revivo and Yair Saada.