On Thursday,  the Sovereignty Movement will launch the Greater Jerusalem initiative, calling for the extension of Jerusalem to become a metropolis to include Gush Etzion, Mevaserret, Ma’ale Adumim and parts of Binyamin.

The announcement of the initiative will take place during the third Sovereignty Youth Conference, which will be held at the Oz veGaon preserve in Gush Etzion and will focus on the centrality of Jerusalem in the life of the People of Israel and the State of Israel.

The co-chairwomen of the Sovereignty Movement, Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar, say that the decision to focus on the centrality of Jerusalem in the life of the People of Israel and the State of Israel at the conference stems, among other things, from the violent incidents that have occurred recently in the mixed cities and the threats to Israel emanating from Iran, Turkey, Hamas and Hizb’Allah.

“The struggle for the Zionist way and the justice of our cause begins with Jerusalem”, they say.

“The centrality of Jerusalem is clear to Israel’s enemies and they use again and again as a pretext to attack Israel.

The pogroms perpetrated upon Jews in the mixed cities also began with the pretext of Arab defense of Jerusalem.

Against all of this, the voice of Israeli youth imbued with faith in the justice of the cause, is clear and distinct, as they are aware of their mission in the chain of Zionism, and are especially aware of the importance and centrality of Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the eternal People”.

“It is in this spirit”, say Katsover and Matar, that the third Sovereignty Youth conference will take place, and from it, the call will emerge with renewed vigor, to apply and implement Israeli sovereignty over the entire Land from the Galilee, thru Judea and  Samaria, Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley, to the Negev”.