Settler suspected of attacks on Palestinians released from house arrest, barred from West Bank

IDF Central Command Chief Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth decided on Monday to release settler Tal Yinon Dardik from house arrest but bar him from the West Bank. Dardik is suspected of involvement in attacks against Palestinians and other nationalist-motivated offenses, including a suspected attack in March. The Jerusalem District Court on Sunday rejected Bluth's appeal over an administrative restriction order imposed on Dardik, while leaving intact the finding that Dardik poses a security risk and should remain under full house arrest. Judge Avraham Dan Rubin upheld an earlier military appeals committee decision that the order against Dardik was justified, but that he could not be required to serve the house arrest specifically at his mother-in-law's home in the West Bank settlement of Adei Ad without her consent. Rubin wrote that the starting point is that Dardik poses a danger which justifies full house arrest, noting that Dardik had not challenged that finding as part of the appeal.