Judea Electronic Magazine, No. 1.6

Judea Magazine, No. 1.6


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JUDEA ELECTRONIC MAGAZINE  Vol.1, No.6  Kislev-Tevet 5754/Nov-Dec 1993
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Contents: WHERE IS THE PEACE?

* We Mourn with the Bereaved Families:
  - Yitzhak Weinstock - Torches: Mordechai and Shalom Lapid - 
  Where is the Peace?
* To You and Your Descendants Will I Give the Land:
  - Bethlehem's Jewish Roots - Running the Arab Blockade at Bethlehem -
  Abraham's Tent at Alonei Mamre - Hebron: The First Capital of Judea - 
  A Field Trip to Ancient Tekoa - The Romans are Gone
* Working for Israel's Tomorrow:
  - Ruth Matar: Working for Israel's Tomorrow - Don't Give them Rifles - 
  Dudu and Anat: Examples to Us All - Israel Community Development Fund

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                    WE MOURN WITH THE BEREAVED FAMILIES

     On 1 December 1993, Yitzhak Weinstock, 19, from Alon Shvut in the
Etzion Bloc, and Shalva Uzana, 24, a kindergarten teacher from Jerusalem,
were murdered by Arab gunfire when the car in which they had hitched
rides was attacked north of Jerusalem

                               *     *     *

     On 6 December 1993, Mordechai Lapid, 56, of Kiryat Arba, and his son
Shalom, 19, were murdered by gunfire from a passing Arab car near Hebron.
Three other Lapid children were wounded in the attack.

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                             YITZHAK WEINSTOCK

     He was easy to spot - blue jeans rolled up at the cuffs, black
sneakers, his brother's "Golani" t-shirt, a shy smile, and a walkman at
hand - all of which said simple, friendly, and sincere.  Always one with
a smile.  He was also a serious student.  After comleting his studies at
Or Etzion yeshiva he had continued at the Beit Midrash at Eli.  Yet he
was careful to keep in good physical shape prior to his forthcoming army
induction.  To this end he had recently completed courses in parachuting,
underwater diving, and snappling - all of which helped him to better know
the land from unconventional perspectives.
     Yitzhak had spent a lot of time walking through the Israeli
countryside, and had a special warm place in his heart for the Ain Hatzvi
spring near Kfar Etzion, which he and his friends had renovated and
turned into a pleasant visiting site under his father's supervision. 
Whenever we saw him get a bottle of cola, a flashlight, food, and a small
tape recorder, we knew he was headed for the spring.  Yitzhak would visit
the spring at every opportunity - in summer, winter, and even on crutches
when he had dislocated his foot.
     He was very aware of the hardworking IDF soldiers guarding the roads
in Judea and Samaria, and before a trip to Jerusalem would often get soft
drinks and cookies to give out to the soliders on the way.  He even
placed a tzedakah box in his yeshiva to gather contributions for this
purpose.
     Love of the land, love of people in general and the Jewish people in
particular, and love of Torah were basic to Yitzhak and he followed them
with a natural simplicity and modesty.  [From Yesh Iton, Gush Etzion
(#15)]

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                    TORCHES: MORDECHAI AND SHALOM LAPID

                               Shlomo Linsky

     In Riga there once lived a Jew who desired to live in Israel.  He
was not the only Jew in Riga and perhaps there were many who dreamed of
Eretz Israel, but our hero was different for his single-mindedness.  He
wanted nothing else in life and sought every way to achieve his goal. 
When he was only 14, he tried to stow away on a foreign ship, but was
discovered.  A champion swimmer, he tried again, this time to swim across
the sea.  He almost made it, reaching international waters, but fatigue
and the waves returned him into the hands of the Russian coast guard. 
Despite these failures and two years in a Soviet prison, he kept
repeating his request to emigrate to Israel.  Finally the government in
Moscow allowed him to leave in 1968.  He packed all his possessions in
one small suitcase and left only one thing, his bedroom slippers, facing
south toward Eretz Israel.  Later these slippers would become a symbol to
scores of Jews seeking to leave.  It was believed that whoever put his
feet into those slippers would soon be granted permission to leave for
Israel.
     I heard this story when I was a child growing up in Riga.  I was to
meet this legandary figure some 20 years later in Jerusalem, where Mark
Bloom of Riga had become Mordechai Lapid.  Lapid means torch, a torch
that cut through the Iron Curtain.
     He knew how to achieve his dream.  He married Miriam, a
Jerusalemite, and together they had 15 children.  The Lapid family were
among the first pioneers of Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria in the
1970s.  Later he spent much time in educational activities among new
immigrants to Israel from Russia.  In one unforgettable event, I had the
privilege of helping him organize a Pesach Seder for 400 new immigrants
in Jerusalem.
     Mordechai Lapid, 56, and his son Shalom, 19, were murdered by
gunfire from a passing car two days before Hanukkah in December 1993 near
their home in Kiryat Arba-Hebron.  Three younger brothers were wounded in
the attack.  But the torchlight of his life was not extinguished. 
Rather, the story I learned in my youth became a legend on which to
educate a new generation of Jews.  [From Keren Tekoa, Dec 93]

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     Shalom Lapid was one year old when he and his parents were forcibly
evacuated from Elon Morah by the Israeli army, from what would eventually
become a new Jewish town in Samaria.  He was not yet 13 when he entered
high school, which he completed with honors at age 15.  In addition to
being an outstanding student, he was blessed with many other abilities
including modesty and maturity, said his teachers.  Shalom went on to the
highly-respected Ponevetz Yeshiva in Bnai Brak, where he was considered a
Torah prodigy.  Though most of his fellow students were non-Zionist
haredim, Shalom remained a strong Zionist who intended to serve in the
army after he finished his studies.  [From Yediot Aharonot, 8 Dec 93]

                               *     *     *

     Thousands of people in buses and cars escorted the bodies of
Mordechai and Shalom Lapid from Jerusalem to the Jewish cemetery in
Hebron, where the victims of the 1929 Arab riots are buried.  The funeral
procession of several hundred vehicles was barraged by stones and cinder
blocks thrown by Arabs as it passed through Bethlehem and Hebron on its
way to the cemetery.
     The two chief rabbis of Israel were present to eulogize the victims.

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yisrael Lau declared, "The government of Israel
knows that the IDF and security services have the power.  If the safety
catch is released and they receive the order, the security forces could
rout the evil forces."  Sephardi Chief Rabbi Eliahu Bakshi-Doron said,
"We must awaken from our complacency and remember that we are not in a
time of peace but in a time of war.  And so there is only one goal, to
defend our lives."  [From the Jerusalem Post, 8 Dec 93]

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                            WHERE IS THE PEACE?

     There is no peace.  The Palestinian Arabs are still throwing rocks
at Jewish schoolchildren and stopping commuters on the roads with
countless roadblocks and booby-traps.  According to statistics collected
by security officials at the Benjamin Regional Council, the area just
north of Jerusalem and home to 20,000 Jewish residents, attacks on Jews
have increased sharply since the September 13 signing of the Israel-PLO
accord. The figures compare the three-month period before the signing
with the three months after.  In the Benjamin region alone, stoning
incidents rose from 326 to 731; roadblocks from 38 to 72; firebombings
from 19 to 50; injured Israelis from 0 to 34; and Israelis killed from 0
to 5.  [From Yesha Council News Service; elbaum@jerusalem1.datasrv.co.il]

                               *     *     *

     "Have you ever seen children inside a car praying for their lives?"
- MK Ron Nachman, Mayor of Ariel, to Prime Minister Rabin in the Knesset.

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             TO YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS WILL I GIVE THE LAND

     The region of Judea is comprised of three adjoining mountains and
their western slopes.  To the east lies the Judean Desert.  The three
mountains are Mt. Beit El north of Jerusalem, Mt. Jerusalem itself, and
Mt. Hebron to the south, covering an area roughly 25 miles wide and 40
miles long (40 x 70 km.).
     The importance of the Judean Mountains in the history of the Land of
Israel far exceeds its limited size.  It was in the Judean Mountains that
the Jewish people crystalized their spiritual values and here their
central government was located along with their centers of ritual and
worship.  Jerusalem, located in the heart of the Judean Mountains, is a
dominant factor in Judaism, the center of the deep spiritual connection
between the Jewish people and the Judean Mountains.
     The period of Israelite settlement in these mountains began during
the second millennium before the common era.  The borders of Judea are
more or less those where the Tribe of Judah was dispersed or was
dominant.  The name was first applied to the Bethlehem-Hebron region and
then came to geographically and historically include parts of the area of
the Tribe of Dan in the northern foothills, the entire area of the Tribe
of Benjamin in a belt to the north of Jerusalem, and areas of the Tribe
of Simon in the northern Negev, in the southern foothills, and in the
Judean Desert.
     Up to the destruction of the First Jewish Commonwealth and even in
the days of King David and Solomon, the coastal region west of the Judean
Mountains [today metropolitan Tel Aviv] was not under Israelite
governance but remained under the influence of the Philistines and
Canaanites.
     The story of the settlement of Judea by the Israelites is detailed
in the Books of Joshua, Judges, and I Samuel, first with the division of
the land to the tribes and later with the establishment of the separate
Kingdom of Judah on Mt. Hebron and part of Mt. Jerualem.
     An archeological survey prepared in 1968 by M. Kochavi reveals
numerous examples of successful economic and social life in Judea in the
days of the united kingdom.  The number of settlements in these mountains
increased ten-fold from the previous period and numerous settlement sites
from this period remain populated to this day.  [From _Israel Guide_,
"Judea" (Ministry of Defense and Keter Press, 1980)]

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                         BETHLEHEM'S JEWISH ROOTS

     The greatest king of Israel, King David, was the son of Jesse the
Efratite of Beit Lehem (Bethlehem) in Judah (I Samuel 17:12).  Mention of
Jews from Bethlehem occurs frequently in the Bible. After the Babylonian
exile, Jews returned to Bethlehem and lived in the city until the Bar
Kochba revolt.  After the Roman suppresson of the revolt in 135 CE, Jews
were forbidden from living in Jerusalem and Beit Lehem.  The Jewish
National Fund purchased land near Bethlehem in the 1930s, but control was
lost during the War of Independence and today the site is the Arab
neighborhood of Dehaishe. Bethlehem today remains judenrein.
     Just north of Bethlehem is the Tomb of Rachel, one of the four
foremothers of the Israelites.  Jacob had worked for 14 years for the
right to marry Rachel, who would later become the mother of Joseph.  In
the Book of Genesis, God speaks to Jacob at Beit El, changing his name to
Israel, and then tells him: Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a
company of nations will come from you, and kings will come from you. 
"And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, to you I will give it
and to your descendants after you will I give the land" (Genisis 35:10-
12).  Then on the journey from Beit El to Efrat, Rachel dies in
childbirth while giving birth to Benjamin and is buried on the way to
Efrat (35:19).  Rachel's Tomb is a pilgrimage site for tens of thousands
of observant Jews each year, and has been for hundreds of years (as are
the tombs of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca and Leah - all buried
in the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron).
     Jews were permitted to pray at Rachel's Tomb throughout the Ottoman
period.  Moses Montefiore sponsored renovation at the site in 1841 and
1855, as did the Jewish community of Bombay in 1865.  After Israel's 1948
War of Independence, in which the Etzion Bloc settlements south of
Bethlehem were conquered and destroyed by the Arab Legion, Jews were
barred from praying at Rachel's Tomb until the site was liberated in
1967.  [From _Israel Guide_]

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                  RUNNING THE ARAB BLOCKADE AT BETHLEHEM

     On 27 March 1948, a convoy that included most of the armored
vehicles in the possession of the Jewish forces fighting for independence
was loaded with 120 tons of supplies in Jerusalem and headed south to
break the blockcade on the Etzion Bloc.  On the way back, after unloading
the badly needed supplies, the convoy was stopped by a roadblock near
Solomon's Pools south of Bethlehem and came under heavy fire.  The 180
Jewish fighters in the convoy took cover in a house by the side of the
road and for two days fought off the attacking Arabs.  The British who
were still in the country came to relieve the trapped convoy, but
insisted on confiscating all of the armored vehicles, which they then
turned over to the Arabs.  The loss of all of these armored vehicles was
a major blow to the Jews' ability to keep beseiged Jerusalem supplied. 
Some of the Jews' weapons were confiscated and handed over to the Arabs
as well, while others were thrown down the water well at the house.  (The
remains of these weapons were retrieved from the well after the Six-Day
War.)  Thirteen Jewish fighters fell in this battle including Zerubavel,
the convoy's commander.  [From _Israel Guide_]

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                      ABRAHAM'S TENT AT ALONEI MAMRE

     In Hebron on the way to Kiryat Arba is Alonei Mamre (the oaks of
Mamre).  Here Abraham was promised the Land and here he pitched his tent.

"Lift up your eyes and look north, south, east, and west, for all the
land that you see I will give to you and to your seed forever.  And I
will make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number
the dust of the earth, then shall your seed also be numbered.  Arise,
walk through the land, through its length and its breadth, because to you
will I give it."  And Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the
oaks of Mamre which are in Hebron and built there an alter unto the Lord
(Gen. 13:14-18).
     At the site may be seen the remains of the huge stone walls built by
King Herod, of the same type as are found in the Western Wall of the
Temple in Jerusalem and the walls at the Tombs of the Patriarchs and
Matriarchs at the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron.

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                    HEBRON: THE FIRST CAPITAL OF JUDEA

     Hebron is known to be of utmost importance in the history of the
Land of Judah in particular and the Land of Israel in general, and in
many periods it was the capital of Judah.  Hebron served as King David's
capital at the beginning of his reign and of Avshalom in his rebellion
against David.  The ancient city of Hebron is today known as Tel Rumeida.
     Because of its role as the burial place of our forefathers, Hebron
has held a position in Judaism for many generations as a preferred place
of burial, second in importance only to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.

Hebron remained a Jewish burial site even during such difficult periods
as the Crusades when Jews were prohibited from living in the city. 
Numerous Torah scholars are among those buried at the site, as well as
those Hebron Jewish residents who were massacred by the Arabs in 1929.
[Israel Guide]

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                       A FIELD TRIP TO ANCIENT TEKOA

     The Tekoa elementary school was having its regular first-of-the-
month hike, and this time over 100 children from the 1st to 6th grades
set out from Maale Mordechai (the hill next to where Tekoan Mordechai
Lipkin was murdered by Arab terrorists last summer) to ancient (biblical)
Tekoa (the birthplace of Amos the prophet).  As a parent of one of the
students, I took advantage of this opportunity to accompany them on their
school hike.
     Yula, the acting school principal, was our guide.  She briefly
reminded everyone about the murder of Mordechai and how many of us had
spent long hours at Maale Mordechai last summer.  This year the Arabs
have ploughed large tracts of the hill, a political statement in reaction
to our presence.  There is an ancient burial cave on the hill and an old
grape-crushing area, half-buried now by the Arabs with earth and garbage
(another political statement).  Yula told the kids that this garbage,
mostly tin cans, was full of poisons and would, over time, disintegrate,
seep down through the earth and might get into the water table and thus
ruin our drinking water.  From the top of Maale Mordechai we had a
magnificent view of Bethlehem, Tekoa and Herodion, and here we ate our
mid-morning snack.
     We then walked to the nearby ancient city of Tekoa.  No extensive
archeological excavations have been carried out here and over time many
artifacts have been stolen.  The site is large and situated at an
important crossroads going north-south (from Jerusalem to the Negev) and
east-west (from the Dead Sea to the Etzion Bloc).  The Book of Chronicles
recounts how Tekoa was fortified by King Rehavam in order to guard this
important crossroads. Standing amidst the ruins, with a commanding view
of the area, it is easy to understand why Rehavam chose Tekoa to defend
one of the two approaches to Jerusalem from the south.  If danger was
imminent, the people of Tekoa would blow the shofar which was heard in
Bethlehem and from there the warning was passed on to Jerusalem.  Today
an Arab village, Tukua, stands on part of what was once a Jewish town.
     Many years ago a local Arab took some artifacts such as pillars and
olive presses from ancient Tekoa and used them to decorate his garden. 
We were able to enter the garden and also saw how stones from the
original Tekoa had been taken by the Arabs to build new walls.
     In biblical times, Tekoa was a large Jewish town and the site, a
hill covered with visible ruins, cries out for more extensive
archeological exploration.  Only if this area of Judea remains in Jewish
hands can it be studied and developed and thus contribute to our
knowledge of the thousands of years of continuous Jewish life in Judea.
     At the end of our hike to ancient Tekoa, we were met by busses to
return the children to today's Tekoa, a five minute drive north.  As we
began to drive slowly down the hill bck toward home, we heard the loud
thuds of rocks hitting the bus.  Arab teenagers were expressing their
hatred for Jewish children on a school trip.  One of the soldiers who had
accompanied us jumped out of the bus and the Arabs fled.  No shots were
fired and no one was hurt.
     All of this is part of the reality of living in Judea - the history,
the archeology, the nature, and the Arab rock-throwers or worse.  Jews
from time immemoral have lived in Judea, loved the land, and fought for
it - a heritage which today is being passed on to the children from Tekoa
in Judea, Israel. -- Y.A.

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                            THE ROMANS ARE GONE

     In 135 CE it was the Romans who changed the name of Judea to
Palestine.
 
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                 RUTH MATAR: WORKING FOR ISRAEL'S TOMORROW

     In June 1939, Ruth Matar and her brother and sister were put on a
children's transport leaving Austria for Sweden, a country willing to
take in 300 Jewish children fleeing from the Nazis.  Ruth spent the next
8 years with a Christian foster family in a small village in northern
Sweden.  Her parents, meanwhile, had managed to escape to Italy where
they stayed until 1944.  In that year, President Roosevelt "generously"
offered to allow 1,000 Jewish refugees into the U.S., among them Ruth's
parents.  Upon arrival, however, they were forced to stay in a camp in
New York state for one year.
     In 1947, Ruth was able to join her parents in New York.  She went on
to university, married and raised four children, three of whom now live
in Efrat in Judea and one in Jerusalem.  The family moved to Israel in
1977 and built their home in the Yemin Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem.
     Ruth is an artist who works in sterling silver and gold, creating
jewelry and Jewish ceremonial artifacts (i.e., Torah decorations and
hanukkiot).  She prefers to concentrate on Jewish art work and since
moving to Israel has been able to do so.
     These days, however, Ruth has little time for her profession.  In
May 1993, Ruth and her friends joined in demonstrations against the Rabin
government's willingness to concede land on the Golan Heights.  The media
portrayed all the protesters as being "fanatic Jewish settlers," but Ruth
lives in Jerusalem and hardly fits the media stereotype of a settler. 
She and her friends decided to do something about that image and so began
the "Women for Israel's Tomorrow."  They also welcome women whose homes
are in Judea and Samaria in order to emphasize their unity in the
struggle.
     Their first protest was a women's vigil near the prime minister's
residence on Tisha B'av - a day of mourning for the destruction of the
first two temples which signified the end of the first two Jewish
Commonwealths.  The women feared that Rabin's concessions to the Arabs
would lead to the destruction of the third Jewish Commonwealth, the State
of Israel.  The Book of Lamentations was read, followed by a silent
candlelight walk to the Western Wall (hakotel).  It happened that at the
same time, Israel was involved in Operation Accountability against Arab
terrorists in Lebanon who had been firing katyusha rockets into Israeli
civilian settlements in the north.  Ironically, the media chose to focus
on the fact that the women expressed support for the government's policy,
while another group, generally supportive of Rabin's government, was
protesting against it.
     When Jerusalem's mayoral campaign began in the summer of 1993, the
women got involved.  For years Teddy Kollek had created obstacles to
prevent Jews from living in east Jerusalem, in homes that had been
legally purchased and paid for.  At this point the women began protesting
in green shirts and holding a long green ribbon - symbolizing the green
line or pre-1967 border of Israel - to emphasize that the green line ran
right through Jerusalem.  The women did street theater.  Nadia Matar,
Ruth's daughter-in-law, dressed up as an Arab and thanked Peres, Rabin
and Kollek for giving the Arabs a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its
capital.
     Not long ago, Ruth's group took their protest to a political
conference where Shimon Peres was expected to make an appearance.  Some
of the women were outside while Ruth and a few others waited inside. 
Peres came through the door, walked up to Ruth and asked, "Where are you
from?"  Ruth answered, "We are the Women for Israel's Tomorrow."  "No,"
he said, "where do you live?"  and Ruth replied "Jerusalem."  Peres
responded, "No, your're not from here.  You don't belong here.  Go back
to where you came from."  Did Shimon Peres, the Foreign Minister of the
State of Israel, mean that Ruth Matar should go back to the U.S or maybe
back to Austria?  Can a Jew come to live in Israel only if s/he agrees
with Shimon Peres?
     Every Tuesday the Women for Israel's Tomorrow protest at a different
location - often near the pre-1967 borders, to emphasize to the people of
Israel that this government intends to re-create those very borders.  Now
they wear green hats and carry signs which proclaim things like, "No to
the Green Line Ghetto."  The women are also raising money for the
families of Jews murdered by Arab terrorists since Rabin shook hands with
Arafat.  To do this they are selling political cartoon postcards for two
shekels each.  Some of the women went into Mahane Yehuda - the Jewish
market in Jerusalem - to sell the cards, and the vendors there thanked
the women for giving them a chance to "do something" to save the country
from the present government.
     I asked Ruth where the many wonderful protest ideas came from and
she replied that women call her or come up to her with new ideas all the
time.  The Women for Israel's Tomorrow offers an opportunity to "do
something" to anyone who is concerned that the State of Israel - the
third Jewish Commonwealth - is in grave danger.
     If you would like more information about the Women for Israel's
Tomorrow, please write to them at POB 7352, Jerusalem, or Fax (02)-245
380. -- Y.A.

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                          DON'T GIVE THEM RIFLES

     On 14 November 1993, hundreds of Jewish women and children marched
through the streets of Jerusalem toward the prime minister's residence
under the banner "Don't Give Them Rifles," in opposition to the
government's reported plan to arm thousands of PLO terrorists in the
guise of the Palestinian police.

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                     DUDU AND ANAT: EXAMPLES TO US ALL

     Dudu Hazan was born and raised in Kiryat Arba, a Jewish suburb of
Hebron.  He is nineteen years old, but due to a car accident in 1992 he
is presently unable to serve in the army.  He devotes six to seven hours
a day working for the Jewish people.  While talking with him it is easy
to get caught up in his youthful enthusiasm.  During his final year in
high school Dudu wrote a 200 page critique on the Madrid Conference. 
During the 1992 Israeli elections Dudu found himself in the position of
spokesman for the Tehiya party in Jerusalem.
     These days he is busy organizing the youth of Kiryat Arba to help in
the struggle to keep Judea, Samaria, Gaza and the Golan for the Jews.  He
also works with the Council of Jewish Settlements in Judea, Samaria and
Gaza.  In addition, Dudu takes the time to dialogue with young people who
do not agree with his political views.
     Another young person working for the cause, let us call her Anat
(not her real name), is a 23-year-old Jerusalemite, a kindergarten
teacher by profession.  When I asked Anat what inspired her to volunteer
many hours a week phoning people about demonstrations or lectures, she
said that it was a family tradition - a tradition of involvement in
causes to safeguard the only Jewish country.
     This young women spoke of the chain of generations who fought for
the Jewish people and that the work was not yet over.  One area which she
feels must be developed more is that of Zionist Jewish education in
Israel.
     These two young adults are an example to us all.  They voluntarily
give many hours of their free time to help in a cause which could
ultimately determine whether the Jewish State of Israel survives.  They
represent the true Jewish Zionist spirit - a spirit still alive in
Israel. -- Y.A.

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               THE ISRAEL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND (ICDF)

     The ICDF was established in 1990 as the main philanthropic conduit
for the residents of the Jewish communities throughout Judea, Samaria and
Gaza.  Since the major Jewish charities do not disburse money across the
"green line," humanitarian activities and communal endeavors in these
Jewish communities have been excluded from receiving donations.  The
American Friends of the ICDF is registered as a tax-exempt charity under
section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
     Funds are used for supplementary educational programs and equipment;
emergency medical services, clinics, preventive medicine programs, and
pre-natal and pediatric care; parks, playgrounds and libraries; fire-
fighting equipment, rescue and other accident response vehicles, distress
alerts and other emergency communications equipment; special programs for
handicapped children, centers for music, and public service broadcasting.
     Tax-deductible contributions to the ICDF allow those living abroad
to participate in a direct "people to people" campaign, helping to
provide the greatest service where it is most needed at a crucial time
for Israel.  For further information, please contact: The American
Friends of ICDF, 70 West 36th Street, New York, N.Y.  10018; Tel: 212-
279-0164; Fax: 212-695-6232.

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There is a modern-day Jewish revolutionary movement alongside all the
other famous and exciting liberation organizations depicted in the media.

Its shock troops are known as "settlers," for what we do is settle in the
Land of Israel.  We settle Jews in Judea.  Join us.
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