Anti-government activist Yolanda Yavor has been freed to house arrest, her lawyer says, after being held in custody for nearly a week on incitement suspicions.
The Tel Aviv University lecturer will remain under surveilled house arrest but next Monday, and is permitted to leave her home to teach classes, according to a ruling by Haifa Magistrate’s Court Judge Boris Sherman.
Prosecutors are planning to file incitement charges against her in the coming days.
Police arrested Yavor on Friday for social media posts calling for a “rebellion” against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The only choice is… to fight the traitor, the mouthpieces, the damned collaborators and his bargain-bin Freikorps militias with all the strength and all means,” she wrote on Facebook.
Yavor’s lawyer Oshrat Kirma previously slammed the police’s investigation as politically motivated, arguing that the activist was exercising her right to free speech. She further claimed that the activist’s continued detention at northern Israel’s Kishon detention center was endangering her life.
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