Raed Salah, the head of the outlawed Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, will not be remanded to house arrest after all, the Haifa District Court ruled Thursday.
Israel outlawed the Islamic Movement's Northern Branch in November 2015 over its incessant incitement to violence and terrorism.
Salah has served multiple stints in prison. He was arrested for incitement to terrorism in August, over speeches he gave at the funerals of the three terrorists who murdered two Israeli policemen on the Temple Mount in July, and is currently awaiting trial.
On Wednesday, the Haifa Magistrates' Court ruled that he be remanded to house arrest pending his trial, but prosecutors were able to successfully appeal the ruling.
Haifa District Court President Judge Ron Shapiro agreed that placing Salah under house arrest with electronic monitoring and a NIS 20,000 shekel ($5,720) bond would fall short of preventing him making statements that could potentially incite others to carry out terrorist attacks.
"When to comes to ideology-based offenses, it is difficult to suffice with electronic monitoring, especially with respect to a person who is defined as a public leader and who has great influence on the public at large," the judge wrote in his ruling.
