{"id":56898,"date":"2017-11-15T18:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=56898"},"modified":"2017-11-06T14:02:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T12:02:38","slug":"28-00-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=56898","title":{"rendered":"‘Thanks to the arrest we were able to help more girls’"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>‘Thanks to the arrest we were able to help more girls’<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Eliran Aharon<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Cofounder of anti-assimilation group says organization received spike in calls after her husband’s arrest.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anat GopsteinEliran Aharon<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The cofounder of the Lehava anti-assimilation group blasted police Tuesday, following the arrest of her husband earlier this week and efforts by police to block his release to house arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n

Police arrested more than a dozen Lehava activists Sunday morning, including the group\u2019s chairman, Bentzi Gopstein. Authorities say the activists were taken into custody as part of an ongoing investigation into allegations the group threatened Israeli Arab men who were involved romantically with Jewish women.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the Jerusalem Magistrate\u2019s Court released all 15 activists, including Gopstein, freeing him to house arrested despite police efforts to extend his arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Gopstein\u2019s wife and Lehava cofounder Anat Gopstein spoke with Arutz Sheva regarding her husband\u2019s arrest and the subsequent spike in interest for the organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIsrael Police are hounding my husband obsessively, psychotically,\u201d said Anat.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis time they accused him during interrogation of telling a [Jewish] girl that it was a bad idea to date an Arab.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Anat lamented that while Israel once recognized that intermarriage and assimilation are serious threats to the future of the Jewish people, addressing either is now deemed politically incorrect, even as the state continues to support efforts to curb intermarriage abroad, via the Jewish Agency.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn Israel today, fighting assimilation is considered racism \u2013 and that [view] is precisely what we\u2019re trying to combat.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think that it shouldn\u2019t be just us fighting assimilation, the State of Israel needs to get involved as well. In the Diaspora, the Jewish Agency deals with assimilation, but here in Israel its considered racist, and anyone who tries to deal with it gets arrested.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the difficulties caused by the arrests, Anat noted that there was a silver lining for Levaha. The arrests and wave of news reports created free publicity for Lehava, leading to a dramatic increase in calls to the organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOverall, we want to thank the police. Organizations spend a lot of money on advertising, but just yesterday we received 16 referrals regarding girls who, unfortunately, are dating Arabs, and their families are calling for help. We\u2019re the ones who come and give them that assistance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUsually we get around 5 to six new cases every day, but since the arrest its gone up to 16.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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‘Thanks to the arrest we were able to help more girls’ Eliran Aharon Cofounder of anti-assimilation group says organization received spike in calls after her husband’s arrest. Anat GopsteinEliran Aharon The cofounder of the Lehava anti-assimilation group blasted police Tuesday, following the arrest of her husband earlier this week and efforts by police to block […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56898"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56918,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56898\/revisions\/56918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}