Yesterday Glick was detained/arrested on Har Habayit. Glick goes regularly to the Har, and is no stranger to what happens there or to what rules the police set for ascension. Glick says he was arrested for "walking too slow". The police later said that Glick was arrested for "breaking the rules of the place" and causing a provocation, though they did not specify what rules he broke. After some hours of being detained and interrogated, Glick was eventually released.
While it might be unusual to arrest someone as high profile as Yehuda Glick, it is not unusual for people to be arrested for minor violations on Har Habayit. And it is even understandable, as the most minor of infractions can still be used as a justification by the Arabs to start a riot or intifada, as has been done in the past, so the police feel they need to come down strongly on even minor infractions. So just Glick being detained would not be much of a story (though for "walking too slow" is admittedly curious), but what happened next is strange.
In the middle of the night, around midnight, the police went to Glick's house, with a warrant and an arrest order in hand. After an hour searching, plus searching his car above that, for God knows what, the police arrested Glick and took him down to the station.
And then again this morning, after two arrests and interrogations and searches, Glick was taken in again for another interrogation.
The police later said they were looking for items (papers) from the investigation that went missing. They suspect that Glick took the papers from the interrogation room on his way out earlier in the day. It should be noted that the police found nothing in their searches of his house and car. Glick denies taking any papers.
A number of ministers have criticized the police for this behavior. Minister of Internal Security Gilad Erdan said, after praising Glick and reminding the public that he worked with Glick to increase the number of Jews ascending to Har Habayit and lessening harsh rules of the police, that he would look into the matter, but he has no involvement in arrests and the police had a warrant for a judge, but after this story is completed he will look into the matter , will look into the cause for arrest and the interrogation and house search and check to see if it was justified.
I suspect there is more to this story than we are being told. As it is, this is too strange to be just what we are seeing in the news.
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