United Torah Judaism MK Meir Porush has launched a sharp attack on the government following a State Comptroller report that uncovered significant failures in Israel’s handling of security detainees, accusing authorities of misplaced priorities and demanding immediate corrective action.

In a strongly worded letter sent to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Ministers Yisrael Katz, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Yariv Levin, Porush condemned what he described as a “systemic failure and hypocrisy that cries out to the heavens.”

The comptroller’s report found that thousands of terrorists involved in the October 7 massacre were released back into Gaza because of overcrowding and a shortage of detention facilities. According to the report, some of those releases occurred without direct approval from elected officials. The findings also indicated that law enforcement authorities delayed filing indictments against terror suspects for extended periods.

Citing those revelations, Porush questioned the government’s allocation of resources and priorities.

“How is it possible that a state that declares ‘it has no room in its prisons’ for Palestinian terrorists, and releases a Gaza hospital director who hid hostages, suddenly finds budgets, personnel and detention facilities to arrest yeshiva students?”

Porush urged senior government officials to intervene and redirect resources toward combating terrorism rather than pursuing what he characterized as aggressive enforcement against bnei yeshiva.

“It is unacceptable to allow a situation in which the safety of Israeli citizens is abandoned because of detention failures, while those same systems behave with bullying and callousness toward Torah scholars. Direct resources to the places where they are truly needed – their detention, trial and the severe punishment of the terrorists who seek our lives.”

{Matzav.com}