The asylum case of a young Israeli who says he fears he will be conscripted and forced to commit war crimes if he is deported from the UK to Israel has been adjourned after a tribunal failed to provide a Yiddish interpreter.
The 21-year-old rabbinical student, who has been granted an anonymity order, left Israel in 2017 after he received a letter from the Israeli army requiring him to report for military service. The student rejects Zionism and Israel’s existence based both on his political beliefs and his ultra-Orthodox Jewish faith, which teaches that Jews should not return en masse to Palestine until the return of the messiah.
His initial asylum claim was refused by British Home Secretary Priti Patel in December 2020. He was scheduled to present his appeal on Monday before an immigration court in
— source Jews For Justice For Palestinians | Dania Akkad (Middle East Eye)| Sep 22, 2021