Strengthening Within: A Visit to the Torah Wing of Ayalon Prison
Family visits once a week, a tiny locked courtyard, rigid wake-up and sleep hours, and mostly a complete denial of basic freedom: the Torah wing of Ayalon Prison houses kippah-wearing inmates who committed crimes, were sentenced to long years, and are serving heavy sentences. But what kind of soul freedom is created behind the walls, barbed wire, and armed lookout towers. Eli Beitan willingly enters the gates of the gloomy-looking prison and finds liberation from certain preconceived notions.
