While her husband was in exile, Shulamit was arrested. The next day, Haaretz newspaper reported on the arrest of "the important terrorist that the police have been looking for for years." During her imprisonment in the women's prison in Bethlehem, she went on hunger strike for 11 days demanding to be reunited with her toddler son.[3] During the hunger strike she was taken to a hospital where doctors tried to force-feed her.[4] In May 1948 she was released.