Indictment Filed Against 17 Haredi Protesters After Break-In at Military Police Chief’s Home

Prosecutors have filed an indictment in Ashkelon Magistrate’s Court against 17 ultra-Orthodox protesters, including four minors, over their role in a late-April demonstration at the home of Military Police Chief Brig. Gen. Yuval Yeamin in Ashkelon. The alleged offenses include riot, trespass with intent to commit an offense, and malicious damage.

According to the indictment, the protesters arrived in the evening with dozens of others to demonstrate against drafting yeshiva students into the IDF. They held signs reading, “War on the enlistment law, in deeds and not in words!” and shouted slogans including “We will die and not enlist” and “Yuval Yeamin is a traitor.”

The filing says that around 8 p.m. several demonstrators forced open the locked gate, entered the yard, and spread throughout the property. At the time, Yeamin’s wife and two of their children, including one minor, were inside the house. Prosecutors said dozens of protesters entered the yard, porch, and entrance stairs, where they sat and stood, some holding hands, while singing “Etzu etza vetufar” and continuing to shout against Yeamin and the IDF.

The family, the indictment says, felt threatened and feared physical harm, closed the shutters, locked the door, and called police while they remained trapped inside and unable to leave safely. Police arrived after calls from the family and neighbors, stopped the disturbance, and arrested the defendants.

Prosecutors also say the gate lock was damaged, parts of the house wall were broken, and the porch tiles and garden plants were harmed. The damage is estimated at thousands of shekels.