To our Dear Friends,
Greetings,
1) Reminder: This coming Friday there will not be a lecture because of the predicted blessed, wet weather
2) Today, Wednesday, Amikam Svirsky, head of the settlement department in the ministry of defense, visited Oz veGaon together with his large entourage of people from the division and from the Civil Administration.
The head of Gush Etzion Council, Davidi Perl, gave an overall description of the preserve and we, Women in Green, gave details of the nature of the project as an active educational tourism site.
Elyashiv Kimhe described the work with groups of youth who come to the preserve every day from all parts of the Land, receive training in self-defense and work in developing the preserve.
Mr. Svirsky listened and promised to try to bring to the preserve groups of youth who are planning to stay at Gush Etzion in the month of March for the project “In the footsteps of the fighters”. Attached are pictures of the visit. Please give credit to the photographer, Gershon Elinson if you send the photographs to others.
3) The Women in Green Family and Oz veGaon send their condolences to the dear Biton family on the death of 4-year-old Adelle, who was murdered by Arabs throwing stones. It is again proven that stones kill. May the family be comforted in the building of the Land of Israel.
4) For this Shabbat’s parasha, Trumah, we bring a few lines from Rav Yaakov Filber. It is said about the Temple in the Torah: “And it will be the place where the Lord, your G-d, will choose his presence to dwell”. The location of the Temple is not random, rather it is pre-determined by the Creator. This place must be only in the Land of Israel, about which it is said in the Torah: “A Land that the Lord, your G-d demands, the eye of G-d is always upon it”. Thus it was not chance that brought the People of Israel to the Land of Israel, but the Land was chosen ahead of time by the Creator of the world from all other lands to be the land of the Jewish People, because only it is suitable for the realization of the Jewish People’s purpose and the implementation of the Jewish People’s goals, as it is stated in the Midrash: “The Almighty said to Moshe the Land is beloved to me, as it was stated: Because Hashem loved you the Almighty said ‘I will bring my beloved Israel to my beloved Land’”.

Shabbat Shalom,
Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar