Ariel Dahari, a resident of Samaria, received a detention order this morning (Monday) signed by the Head of the Home Front Command, forbidding him from leaving the Samaria community where his parents reside. The catch? Dahari is expected to marry his fiancée, Emunah, in about three weeks. Attorney Adi Kedar of the Honenu legal organization representing Dahari sent a letter to the Head of the Home Front Command, Rafi Milo, who signed the order, demanding that it be canceled immediately. "As you know, my client is making final preparations for his wedding planned for January 26 in Jerusalem," opens the letter. "Last night at midnight the restraining order issued against my client expired and we were hoping that the prolonged harassment of my client and his family members would come to an end. We were hoping that he could now look toward the future and get married with the peace of mind he deserves." "Despite my client's wish to leave the past behind him, you chose to renew the attacks against him during the exciting and celebratory period of his life, placing harsh restrictions on him, without a trial and without evidence, which may de facto sabotage the wedding he and his future wife, Miss Emuna Yehudit Groen, are planning. "This conduct is a direct continuation of the draconian policy against the subject in recent years; the culmination of which occurred recently when he was forced to change the arrangements for his own engagement party, postponing it from taking place in the Groen family home in Jerusalem as is customary. You are well aware of the entailing saga, Advocate Kedar wrote. Kedar further points out: "To paraphrase the order, it states that the subject 'continues to constitute a substantial threat to the security of the state.' It should be clarified that my client denies the allegations regarding his involvement in any violent activity and that there is no current information regarding his involvement in such activity since my client has been under severe administrative restrictions and in recent weeks, has not left the confines of Nof Ayalon without an individual permit granted by you, which is given to him very sparingly. "The High Court is well aware of the heavy surveillance of my client and his friends who are part of the so-called "Hilltop Youth" and it is clear to everyone that if there was any evidence of his involvement in violent activity or alternatively of violating the restrictive administrative conditions, criminal proceedings would have been initiated against him," he notes. Kedar explains that due to Dahari's upcoming wedding, he cannot continue his presence within his parents' community. "Regarding the subject's settlement arrest in Nof Ayalon, things cannot continue in their current state. The subject and his spouse will in no way be able to live in the house of the subject's parents, and there is no alternative in this locality due to the lack of available apartments for rent, certainly not in the short period of time until the wedding. A few weeks ago, the young couple agreed to rent an housing unit in the Yad Binyamin community for the initial period of their marriage. "All my client's belongings are already packed in preparation for the move to the new apartment - photos of the cardboard boxes packed in the living room of the Dahari family in Nof Ayalon are attached. What is required, at the very least, is to permit the young couple's residence in Yad Binyamin so that they can carry out the basic tasks of: registering the marriage in the rabbinate, purchasing furniture and electrical equipment, arranging the new apartment, visiting the the wedding hall, and much more. "We have yet to mention the wedding itself and the 'Sheva Brachot' - a period of seven days during which relatives and acquaintances hold a party for the newly-weds. We have absolutely no chance to comply with all of the above under the aforementioned restrictions. Likewise, it will be clarified that advance notification of every movement, action, and submission of an individual request for every exit from Not Ayalon is borderline impossible. My client must be able to perform all of the aforementioned - the necessary preparations for the wedding, the wedding day itself, the days of the Sheva Brachot, as well as my client's arrival at the bride's parents' home in Jerusalem for the Shabbat following the ceremony, as is customary in religious families," concluded Kedar.
