Ukrainian police arrests an ultra-Orthodox couple from Israel at a Kiev airport after finding more than two pounds of marijuana in their luggage.
The website of Ukraine’s border police does not identify the Israelis arrested at Boryspil Airport on Sunday but says they were apprehended in a combined operation by the country’s security service, police and customs.
The news site www.ch10.co.il, which specializes in news from the Haredi world, suggests the couple may have been framed in connection with the woman’s legal battle for custody over her nine children from her ex-husband. The article does not name the individuals involved, citing privacy considerations.
According to the article, the couple and the ex-husband are members of a “prominent Hasidic group based in central Israel.” It was identified as the Bnei Brak-based Ger Hasidic dynasty, one of Israel’s largest, by Israel Greenhouse, a lecturer on the Haredi world and former member of that community.
— JTA
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