The Israeli police revealed that a Jewish Rabbi detained dozens of women in "bondage" conditions in a housing complex in West Jerusalem.
"After a secret investigation, the police forces raided a residential compound in central Jerusalem, where, according to the suspicion, a closed community in which dozens of women were established under conditions of slavery," the police said in a written statement.
Police added that about 50 women and a number of children under the age of 5 were isolated in the compound.
The Israeli police indicated that the main suspect in this case was a man in his sixties, and his detention was later extended for 7 days.
While the Israeli police did not provide more information about the suspect, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper website indicated that he was a "rabbi".
The site added that some women were held for up to 10 years in a complex of three buildings.
The site pointed out that 8 women were suspected of collaborating with the rabbi.
The site said, "It is suspected that women have been subjected to sexual exploitation, in addition to this it is alleged that some women were forced to put their hands in the fire to know what they would feel in the fire of hell."
The website of the newspaper pointed out that the status of the complex was investigated several years ago, but the investigation was renewed recently after several women fled from it, and they gave the authorities information about it.
It said, "After the testimonies of women, new evidence emerged indicating the existence of a religious community working under the auspices of a women’s establishment there, in which women lived with their children in a crowded residential complex, with a claim that the head of the institution systematically abused them."
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Wondering what ethnic group of woman were held in slavery???
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