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Dear Friends,
What a meaningful Tisha B’Av evening!!
More than 2000 people participated in the Annual Women in Green Tisha B’Av March around the Walls of the Old City. The thousands arrived from all around the country, religious and non-religious, families and singles, young in age and young in spirit, Israelis born in Israel and lots of Olim, new olim and old olim, all united in their love and loyalty to the land of Israel and Jerusalem.
The evening started with a moving Eicha reading by David Matar, in front of the U.S. Consulate after which we started our march.
After passing the new Gate, Damascus Gate and Flower Gate, we stopped at the Lion’s Gate, through which our IDF soldiers entered to free the Old City in 1967, to hear speeches by Mk Prof Arieh Eldad, Rabbi Yehuda Glick from the Temple Institute, artist Dudu Elharar and Nadia Matar, Women in Green. Rabbi Yossef Mendelevitz said Kaddish in memory of the soldiers who fell right at the gate in 1967.
All speakers mentioned the need to increase the struggle for the Land of Israel, for Jerusalem and for the Temple mount. The evening was very moving; an evening where thousands of Jews pledged allegiance to Jerusalem and the land of Israel.
We would like to thank all those who helped in preparing for the march, contributed, supported and mainly to all of you who forwarded the information about the march by email and by word of mouth. Thanks to you, dear friends, the evening was a huge success.
For pictures by Gemma Blech: (please credit if used)
http://picasaweb.google.com/gemmablech/TishaBAv2009#
Below please find important updates and calls to action.
With love for Israel,
Nadia Matar
Women in Green
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SHDEMA:
FOURTH THURSDAY-FRIDAY IN SHDEMA
“I gained two birds in one “klap”, said one of the participants in all of our Thursday-Friday seminars in Shdema this past month:
1) I enjoyed every lecture, I learned from every activity, everything was done with such flavor and order.
2) I was able to take part in the struggle to increase the Jewish presence in Shdema. We know that the struggle for Erets Israel is a tough one, but in Shdema, during the seminars, I hardly felt the heat; the halls in the destroyed buildings did not bother me…the interesting and intellectual lectures, the beautiful exhibitions of paintings…all contributed to the fact that I really felt I was in a proper Erets Israel Cultural Center, with a very special flavor.”
If you still have not been in Shdema- now is the time!
TOMORROW: FRIDAY JULY 31:
9:30-10:30 Lecture in English by Yoram Ettinger on the “Demographic scare: demographic time bomb or scarecrow”?
9:30-10:30 Lecture and movie in Hebrew by Rabbi Zevik Harel, director Midreshet Tohar on the Hassidic rabbi of Piaseczne, great lover of Erets Israel.
10:30-11:30 “Russian Poetry You Didn’t Know” – poetry translated into Hebrew, with Zeev Geisel, artist and mathematician and Alex Kropisky, musician
Anna Hodorkovsky from Tekoa will exhibit her paintings in the Shdema main hall.
Youth (and youth at heart) will have, as every Friday, classes in self-defense and krav maga.
Transportation by registration only (call Elisheva 052-3003689)
8:45 from Kiryat Arba passing by Tsomet hagush and Efrat south-return around 11:30
Shdema is accessible by private car.
A THURSDAY-FRIDAY IN SHDEMA NOT TO BE MISSED!!
TELL YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS!!
The Committee for a Jewish Shdema www.womeningreen.org
Rabbi Yaron Durani (El David-Nokdim)- Tsuri Botosh (Jerusalem Shdema youth)-Igor Bialsky (Tekoa)-Elisheva Ginsburg (Alon Shvut)-Orly Glauber (Maaleh rehavam)-Ruti Wallfish (Tekoa)-Ina Vinyarski (Tekoa)-Yehudit Tayar (Beit Horon)-Timna Katz (Neve Daniel)
Nadia Matar (Efrat) 050-5500834- Gedaliah Friedman (Neve daniel)-Yehudit Katzover (Kiryat Arba Hevron 050-7161818)-Eli Rodan (Elazar)
Following are links to the gallery of pictures and short videos by photographer David Rabkin on some of our activities in Shdema. Enjoy.
The Committee for a Jewish Shdema
http://www.pbase.com/rdavid/event
Pictures of Seminar ‘Does the media report or create news?’ at Shdema,
Judea, July 23, 2009
http://www.pbase.com/rdavid/20090723
Pictures of Seminar ‘The direction – Eretz Israel’ at Shdema, Judea,
July 9, 2009
http://www.pbase.com/rdavid/20090709
Video of Seminar ‘The direction – Eretz Israel’ at Shdema, July 9, 2009
Pictures of Philippe Karsenty at Shdema, Judea, June 12, 2009
http://www.pbase.com/rdavid/20090612
Video of Philippe Karsenty at Shdema, June 12, 2009
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ALERT TO GUSH ETZION RESIDENTS and ALL ERETZ ISRAEL LOVERS-
FOUR YEARS AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF GUSH KATIF AND NORTHERN SHOMRON WE WILL FIGHT TO SAVE THE HOUSE OF TAMAR & MUDI BIBI IN ELAZAR, NETIV HA’AVOT NEIGHBORHOOD, Gush Etzion
For the past year and a quarter,Tamar and Mudi Bibi and their baby have lived in their house in the Netiv Ha’Avot neighborhood of Elazar in Gush Etzion. The Netiv Ha’Avot neighborhood has been populated for the past 8 years, with some 20 families. Despite that, the ministry of Defense, for political reasons, refuses to officially annex the neighborhood to the community of Elazar. Yesterday, Wednesday, Bagatz has issued a destruction decree for all Netiv Ha’Avot houses within 90 days.
First on line is the Bibi home which Ehud Barak has promised to destroy by August 2009, which means that the demolition forces might be coming any day in the next few days or hours.
Interestingly, no destruction orders has been given to the tens of thousands of illegal Arab houses in Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem, Negev and Galil.
WE CALL UPON THE PUBLIC TO COME TO ELAZAR, TO SEE THE HOUSE OF TAMAR AND MUDI BIBI,
THIS COMING MONDAY, AUGUST 3rd at 6:00pm, for tefillat mincha and a lecture by the famous tour guide Arieh Rottenberg.
Today they use the excuse of “no building permits” to destroy a house – tomorrow they will plan a destruction similar to that in Gush Katif and Northern Shomron.
THE STRUGGLE FOR THE BIBI HOME ENCAPSULES THE STRUGGLE FOR THE ENTIRE SETTLEMENT ENTERPRISE.
The descendants of the Arabs who murdered the Jews of Kfar Etzion in 1948 would love to receive a present from the Israeli Minister of Defense, to commemorate the 61 years since the falling of Gush Etzion. WE WILL NOT LET THIS HAPPEN!
Tamar and Mudi Bibi 050-6221361
Chana and Menachem Gofer 052-8119073/4
Update:
On Monday, July 27th, the Police Chief Commander of the Hebron area, Itzik Rachamim, and Officer Amiad Rabinik in charge of the Gush Etzion police came to Netiv HaAvot, next to the Tamar and Bibi home, and it seemed as if they were “scouting he war zone”. Instead of focusing on destroying Jewish homes, we call upon them to turn their attention to the 50,000 illegal Bedouin houses in the Negev, 10,000 illegal Arab houses in Jerusalem and at least another 50,000 illegal Arab houses in the Galil
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FINALLY:
Nationalist Camp: Disobey Expulsion Orders
Av 9, 5769, 30 July 09
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com)
Seventy-nine percent of the national religious camp would encourage soldiers to refuse orders to remove Jews from communities in Judea and Samaria or to ask not to participate in removing residents, according to a new poll.
The results of the survey published Thursday show the national religious camp is “settling accounts” with the government for having separated from the ”heritage of forefathers,” pollsters Meir Gal and Dr. Avi Piaar told the Yisrael HaYom Hebrew language newspaper. The poll was carried out by Mootagim, the Hebrew word for “trademark” or brand name products.
Thirty-nine percent of the respondents favor outright refusal of expulsion orders, and 36 percent would encourage soldiers to ask commanders to relieve them from having to expel Jews from their homes.
The poll showed signs that the expulsions four years ago left the national religious camp more insistent to fight future orders to remove Jews from their homes. Sixteen percent of the respondents said that they would do “everything that is needed” to fight future expulsions, even if it would result in injuries to soldiers or police officers.
The issue of using soldiers to carry out political decisions, even if they are to be executed in Judea and Samaria where the military establishment is the legal authority, aroused an emotional debate four years ago, on the eve of the expulsions of approximately 8,000 Jews from Gush Katif and parts of northern Samaria.
The number of national religious officers in the IDF is proportionately far higher that non-religious officers, and their ideology emphasizes pride to serve in the army. However, several rabbis have argued that the expulsion orders were illegal or immoral, and one reserve officer who campaigned four years ago against the idea of soldiers refusing orders has changed his stand.
IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi is trying to prevent a future problem of dissension and has told Defense Minister Ehud Barak he does not want soldiers to participate in any future expulsions.
Two States Already Here?
Half of those participating in the poll also think that a new Arab state within the current borders of Israel will be established or already is functioning on a de facto basis. Twenty-five percent said there will be a Palestinian Authority country, while another 25 percent said that it already exists.
Most surveys among the Arab sector in Judea, Samaria and Gaza have revealed a general pessimism regarding their personal future and the chances that a new state will be formed. They also increasingly favor violence against Jews.
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