UPCOMING ACTIVITIES – Women In Green

UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
Dear Friends,

Many activities for Eretz Yisrael are planned for these coming weeks.
Please mark your calendar and join.
The more people join, the more chance we have to succeed!

Ruth and Nadia Matar

1) MONDAY JULY 17th, 2007- GOING UP TO CHOMESH
Details in Hebrew newspapers and Shabbat leaflets. Women in Green will post information at a later
date.

2) TISHA B’AV – MONDAY EVENING JULY 23rd, 2007

The ANNUAL WOMEN IN GREEN MARCH AROUND JERUSALEM’s OLD CITY WALLS

For Jerusalem’s Sake we will not be Silent!

Join the thousands of men, women, youth and children, young and old, religious and less religious, new olim and old-timers….in one word: Am Yisrael, who start the fast of Tisha B’av by reading the Lamentations together and then march around the Old City Walls till the Kotel.

This Tisha B’Av will also commemorate two years since the expulsion of the Jews from Gush Katif and Northern Shomron.

Program:
At 20:30 pm- Maariv, followed by reading of Eicha at Safra Square. Bring flag, Megillat Eicha and a flashlight to help you read.
At 21:30 pm- Our Walk begins, led by MK Prof Arieh Eldad, former Prisoner of Zion Rav Yossef Mendelevitch and artist Dudu Elharar. We will pass the New Gate, Damascus Gate and the Flower Gate. At the Lion’s Gate we will assemble to proclaim our eternal bond to the Temple Mount where our First and Second Temples stood, and where the Third Temple will be built, speedily and in our days. We will end our Walk at the Dung gate, near the Kotel.

We have a police permit for the Walk. Come with your whole family, friends, neighbors and relatives. The Walk itself takes only 45 minutes.
Even if you heard Eicha at your synagogue in Jerusalem and its surroundings, there will still be plenty of time to join the Walk!
For details: nmatar@netvision.net.il fax 972-2-9309148

3) WEDNESDAY THE TENTH OF AV, JULY 25th 2007

ESTABLISHING NEW YISHUVIM IN ERETZ ISRAEL!

SETTLING THE EITAM HILL-EFRAT!

Women in Green are very involved in this exciting project. We urge you to read Arutz 7’s article about it (see below). You can also get more details on the new website designed solely for that project. There you can view a short movie about the project: www.yishuvnow.com
We hope many of you will join and help!

Activists plan to establish new community “Outside the Wall
(IsraelNN.com) In a move aimed at reversing the silent policy of freezing the settlement of Judea and Samaria, Land of Israel activists plan to establish a new community “outside the fence” next month.

The selected location for the new community is Givat HaEitam, the hilltop north of Efrat that has a commanding view of the Jerusalem-Hevron Highway and the central Gush Etzion region.

Several trips and visits to the area have taken place since the government decided to abandon the hill to the PA-controlled town of Bethlehem, on whose side of the Partition Wall the land is being left. This time, however, organizers say a core-group of future residents plans to stay and build a permanent community there.

Givat HaEitam belongs to the town of Efrat, the central town in the Gush Etzion region south of Jerusalem. Hundreds of housing units were planned for the site as part of Efrat’s master plan, but since construction of the wall has begun, Arabs have begun staking claims and laying the groundwork for illegal building on the hilltop.

While Arabs Build Civil Administration Shirks its responsibility
“Arabs came to our hill with a tractor and leveled a rectangular area of approximately 120×40 meters and surrounded it with big boulders, in preparation for a large building project,” Efrat resident and Women in Green director Nadia Matar reported two weeks ago.

As a result the local action committees grassroots activist groups set up to struggle for Jewish land and civil rights in Judea and Samaria called upon the masses to come the following day to dismantle the illegal building. “We knew that the moment the authorities put Eitam outside the fence the Arabs would try to take over,” Matar said. “It is happening. Who knows if the area the Arabs are trying to clear is not [intended as a future] launching site for firing Katyusha missiles at Jerusalem, Efrat and Gush Etzion? This is at least the way we should relate to it.”

When the Civil Administration got word of the move, officials reportedly contacted the local council and Efrat security in an attempt to prevent such vigilante justice. The Civil Administration ‘would take care of it’ promptly on Sunday, Efrat’s mayor was reportedly told. “In order to show our good faith, especially now that we have a new ‘machat’ (Brigade Commander) in the area ,the Efrat Action Committee decided to give the Civil Administration a chance and canceled the activity.”

The Civil Administration never arrived. Each day activists were assured the next day would be the day and each next day it wasn’t. Activists recalled that when Jonathan Pollard’s wife Esther planted trees at another location in honor of her husband, the Civil Administration came “within minutes” to prevent her.

The Efrat Action Committee called upon residents to gather at 6:30 PM Wednesday in Efrat, and to bring with them work gloves and tools to dismantle the groundwork laid illegally on Givat HaEitam.

Yishuv Achshav
Posters are to be posted and distributed in the coming days calling for ‘Settlement Now’ a play on the name of the virulently anti-Jewish-settlement group Peace Now’s name. “We are unfurling the flag of settlement and establishing new communities in the Land of Israel!” the banners say. The settlement of Givat HaEitam is just the first step in a new campaign to revive the establishment of new settlements throughout Judea and Samaria, the posters promise.

Core-Group Will Stay
Organizers of the new core-group also say the make-up of the participants represents the unity inherent in settling the land.

The group consists of both younger and older families, young couples and singles. Both observant and non-observant Jews, and some participants currently live within Israel’s pre-1967 border.

The project is organized by the Action Committees of Efrat-Gush Etzion, Kiryat Arba-Hevron, Land of Israel Faithful, Youth for Eretz Yisrael and Women in Green. Supporters include the Nahalal Forum, Maginei Eretz, Professors For a Strong Israel and the Yesha Rabbis Council.

For more information or to join the core-group in establishing a community on Givat HaEitam, email: la_ma_as@yahoo.com

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With Blessings and Love for Israel,

Ruth and Nadia Matar

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