The official Israeli broadcaster Kan Hadashot reported that “Shin Bet arrested the grandson of high-ranking ultra-Orthodox rabbis, Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky and Rabbi Aaron Yehuda Steinman, a month and a half ago on suspicion of conspiring to commit a crime on a nationalist basis, arms production, arms trafficking , storage of weapons and their production. Household explosives.

The commission’s report states that “the suspect confessed to all the suspicions attributed to him by the Shin Bet, starting with turning his room at a religious boarding school in Modi’in Illit into an explosives laboratory and planning to arm the settlement with explosives and explosives to conduct price operations against “Palestinians “.

She pointed out, quoting the suspect, that “the plan was to set up a secret cell for the haredim and the case was not aimed at puncturing tires in Sheikh Jarrah. Rather, it was a systematic plan at the level of work secret cells. And he added: “Each batch consisted of gunpowder, a gas cylinder and an empty Pringles can. Each batch cost about 40 shekels. The first batch exploded with my hand when I threw it outside the room.”

The suspect was arrested last Friday “after he was suspected of threatening an investigator with the Central Intelligence and Investigation Police Department and threatening to besiege the religious school where he studied with explosive devices.”