Netherlands – VIN Exclusive: Israeli Yeshiva Student Held In Amsterdam On Charges Of Passport Fraud

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    Netherlands – A 28 year old Israeli Yeshiva student was arrested on charges of fraud in the Amsterdam airport last Wednesday after officials at passport control noticed that alterations had been made to the date on old stamps of entrance in his passport.

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    The student, who holds dual American and Israeli citizenship and was using an American passport, was returning to Israel when he was detained by the police.

    International lawyer Mordechai Tzivin, who is representing the student along with Orthodox Jewish Dutch lawyer Herman Loonstein, visited with the student in prison yesterday and said that he is in good spirits and is being treated well by the authorities. The American consul in Amsterdam also paid a visit to the student.

    “He is receiving kosher food, has tefillin and is able to daven,” Tzivin told VIN News. “We very much appreciate and praise the Dutch authorities for the exemplary way in which they treat their prisoners and I think that all other countries should study the Dutch prison system to better understand how to preserve human rights and to observe what proper conditions in a jail should be.”

    The student gave Tzivin letters to send to Rabbi Chaim Dovid Weiss of Antwerp and Rabbi Jacob Bleich, Chief Rabbi of the Ukraine, asking them to intervene on his behalf.


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    CSLMoish
    CSLMoish
    11 years ago

    So Rabbis should intervene because he frauded his passport????

    newtransplant
    newtransplant
    11 years ago

    Some people are idiots……

    shredready
    shredready
    11 years ago

    lets start the excuses and the pidyam shvuim and if they sentence him earthquakes (sarcastic)

    11 years ago

    What are we teaching our youngsters if every few days we have another story of another one in jail?

    shprintzyobermeister
    shprintzyobermeister
    11 years ago

    It’s a bigger chillul Hashem if we accede to his religious demands and intervene on his behalf. maybe we should make a unity video for him too. that said, i hope his penalty isnt too serious and that he learns his lesson.

    Wise-Guy
    Wise-Guy
    11 years ago

    “I think “Pidyon Shivu’im” includes making sure that the punishment doesn’t exceed the crime.
    And yes, if he’s an inexperienced youngster that we can assume has learned his lesson, and this is his first offense, then certainly his “punishment” should be minimal.

    ABRAMO
    ABRAMO
    11 years ago

    anyone can be arrested for failure to obey any sort of obscure Law & sit in jail for a long time. If the punishment is more severe than a beis din would rule then that is definately without any doubt a case of PIDYON SHEVUYIM and is a MiTVAH whose rewards are unimaginable!

    Vozizalt
    Vozizalt
    11 years ago

    Wait a second here;
    1. What is a 28 year old “bochur” doing in a Yeshiva?
    2. What was he doing in Amsterdam?
    3. They caught him on the way in..? Amsterdam is NO place for any BOCHUR to be.
    What you get in Amsterdam (95% of the time) is Znus, Drugs, etc…
    There is no reason for him to have to travel through that city and FAKE his passport.
    He should sit for more than the 2 years he will get since he deserves more.
    He is lucky they caught him before he had a chance to really get into trouble.

    Reb Yid
    Reb Yid
    11 years ago

    We need more facts. What was he doing in the Netherlands? How would altering the dates help him? Was he there for so long that they would see he outstayed the limit?

    qwe123
    qwe123
    11 years ago

    “Alterations had been made to old stamps of entrance in his passport”. I would be very interested what this exactly means and why it is fraud and how terrible this fraud is.
    Wasn’t he just too long time in a certain country, perhaps Netherlands, and needed to solve his problem, and someone did this for him in a proffessional looking way, and he trusted it?