Israel Pursues Investigation of Yossele
Case: Suspect Boy Was Pawn in 'Holy. War'

JTA Teletype wire
services—whose name is never take the stand soon in Jeru-
to The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM—An appeal to used publicly—reported fully to
salem District Court in the
the government to halt any fur- the Israel cabinet about the trial of a couple charged with
ther prosecution in the Yoselle Schumacher case. The entire, hiding him before he was
Schumacher case was made regular, weekly meeting of the
spirited out of Israel.
Tuesday in Israel's parliament cabinet was devoted to that
On trial will be Zalman and
by Dr. Zorach Warhaftig, Min- report, and to questions by the Rachel Kutt, members of the
members of the cabinet.
'Aster for Religious Affairs.
Poale Agudat Israel collective
The security chief described village of Kommemiut, where
He argued that the affair
should be considered closed activities by "fanatic factions" the child reportedly was held
with the finding of the long involved in the case, told of for a time after he was abduct-
missing boy in New York and some anti-government actions ed by Orthodox Jews who
his reunion with his parents in by some persons. He implicated feared he would not receive a
a famous
Hassidic Rebbe. sufficiently Orthodox education.
Israel last week.
He made his statement in "Many of the disclosures were
It was indicated that Yossele
the course of debate on his min- most revealing, and not known will be asked when he was at
publicly
despite
the
spate
of
istry's budget in which the ab-
Kommemiut. This is a point of
duction and hiding of the boy publicity given the case," said contention at the trial because
the
spokesman.
for more than two years and
the defense maintains that the
On suspicion that they had couple harbored the boy before
the status of Bene Israel Jews
been
involved
in
the
hiding
the
issue came up before the
in Israel were raised.
of 10-year-old Yossele, two Israel Supreme Court which
He said it was to Israel's
young rabbis were arrested ordered his immediate return.
credit that it had taken a
by police in Bnai Brak, a On that basis, the defense has
"tolerant attitude" toward
town near Tel Aviv, noted argued, the Kutts are not guilty
extremist religious groups
for its Yeshivot and ultra- of defying the court order.
and that once such a group
Orthodoxy.
acted against the state, it was
For the first time in more
Haim Weisner, 23, one of the than two years. Yossele slept
time for the police to step in.
He added that now that the rabbis arrested, is the son of this week in the home of his
boy was back with his parents the dean of the Hachmey Lublin parents in Holon, a suburb of
it would be "a great act" if the Yeshiva, and a son-in-law of Tel Aviv. The long-missing boy,
the late Rabbi Meislich of subject of a search on three
case were closed.
Police, meanwhile, began Jerusalem, whose name had continents and center of a con-
earlier
been connected with the troversy between strict and lib-
questioning Rabbi Aaron Katz-
enellenbogen, head of the Torah abduction of Yossele Schu- eral religious groupings in
Veyirah Yeshiva, a follower of macher. The second rabbi ar- Israel which reached Israel's
the Satmar Rebbe, in connection rested, Rabbi Maklef, is also 23. parliament, arrived at Lydda
The security chief. meeting Airport with his mother and
with various aspects of the
with editors of Israeli daily sister from New York.
Yoselle case.
The head of Israel's security newspapers, said that the ab-
ductors of Yossele had consid- - Among the hundreds wait-
ng at the airport to see the
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ered having a plastic operation
boy were his father, Alter
performed on the boy, to pre- Schumacher,
and his maternal
I vent his identification. The sug-
Nachman
III
I gestion that the plastic operation grandfather,
The latter was re-
had already been performed I Shtarkes.
eased
from
jail a few hours
I was used by his abductors in
before the boy's arrival on
attempt to blackmail certain o rders
NireetfeNt I an
from
the Supreme
religious personalities in Israel
I into continuing to work against s Court. The grandfather had
pent some two years in jail
the boy's return, the security o n complaint of the mother,
chief declared.
when he refused to cooperate
According to the head of the
when you give Barton's I
with authorities in finding the
chocolates, candies. pas-
security service. the abductors b
oy.
tries. Choose from our I had not intended at any time
big, new selection.
to return the boy to Israel, as th Mrs. Schumacher, asked if
ere would be a reconciliation
their main objective was a
This week's feature:
"holy war" against the State. wi th her father. said "I am not
• The ultra-Orthodox groups in- angry with him." The elderly./
vwohlo
vedin
we re thseSdchtuo
ai Schumacher
have h case, Orthodox Jew said he was
"overjoyed," and that "since I
quarters in New York, Jerusa- learned Yossele was coming
lem, London and Switzerland, back. I came to life again."
' were alleged to be engaged in t o In response to a question as
haavweideactaend a gainst plot and to , in where he would go to school
Israel, the father replied "in
unssattmhe n co r- ,1 1:11
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I poration of Jerusalem
Ion, like every other child •
in the
bably in a Mizrachi school. -
Jewish State.
e boy. however, interposed
Yossele Schumacher will
h a comment he would like
BARTONETTE ASSORTMENT
to study in the Yeshiva Etz
Ch aim in Jerusalem.
Delicious Continental minia- I
D espite release of the grand- I
tures — 82 pieces to the . 1
p ound. Luscious centers of
her. it appeared unlikely that
fruit cordials, toasted nuts, I
aeli authorities would ahan-
smooth cremes, French choc-
their efforts to obtain the
olate and many more.
radition from Britain of the
s
saxt
o hryt o n 's uncle. Shalom Shtarkes,
1 lb. $2.00
2 lbs. $4.00 I
is under custody awaiting
the outcome of extradition pro-
cee dings. Israel asked his extra-
on on charges of perjury
and complicity in the abduction.
Offi
t d cials indicated also that they
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Mrs. Ida Schumacher is
shown leaving Israel Consul.
ate in New York last week
with her son, Yosef, 10, who
had been abducted three
years ago in a religious dis-
pute with his maternal grand-
parents. The latter had feared
the boy would receive an in-
sufficient Orthodox Jewish
upbringing. Mrs. Schumacher
formally took custody of her
son and they have returned
to Israel.

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