Can we do תפילות prayers for:
Women in Green?
That also through them The האור Light, רפואה The Healing and The ואהבה Love of ישועת יהוהYeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?
Dear friends,
Below please find the YNET article by Yair Altman about this Friday activity on the Eitam Hill in Efrat. The links here below will bring you to the English YNET article, but as they often do, they only partially translated the original Hebrew article, and therefore we are presenting you the full English translation of the Hebrew text.
Yashar koach to the tens of people who came on Friday. It was great to be back on the Eitam and it seems we will have to go back again and again and again.... The struggle two years ago for the Eitam was in order to make sure the Eitam lands would be officially declared belonging to Efrat. That was, thank G-d, achieved. Now we are resuming the struggle in order to actually have building there.
With blessings for a good week,
Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
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For English Ynet article (shortened version): http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4010401,00.html
For original Hebrew Ynet article: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/1,7340,L-4010352,00.html
Translation of original Hebrew text:
Facts on the Ground
Wanting to Build on Eitam Hill: Netanyahu Is Worse than Olmert
Dozens of settlers went up to the hill next to Efrat, where the construction of 2,500 housing units has been approved. They directed harsh complaints to the Prime Minister: "Only Netanyahu brought us the freeze. He can't put the blame on Barak"
Yair Altman
The settlers are trying to establish facts on the ground - while the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians are at an impasse: this morning (Friday) dozens of Gush Etzion residents came to the Eitam Hill, that is next to Efrat, to proclaim the renewal of the struggle for Jewish rule there. Their going up to the hill was coordinated with and guarded by the IDF, and was organized by the Women in Green organization, headed by Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katsover.
In the past the settlers waged a lengthy battle for control of the hill. In 2009 the Civil Administration rejected the Palestinian appeals for control of the site, and determined that the 1,700 dunams in the area of the hill are state lands. The [Civil] Administration annexed them to the municipal territory of Efrat.
The Housing Ministry finished planning the construction of 2,500 housing units at the site, but the settlers claim that since then no change has taken place on the ground. According to them, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, on his own, is continuing the freeze and preventing them from building there - for political reasons.
"300 dunams of the 1,700 that were annexed to Efrat are the private lands of Jews that were purchased even before the establishment of the State," the deputy head of the Efrat Council, Josh Adler, related. "Unlike many council heads and leaders in Judea and Samaria, I don't blame Ehud Barak for the lack of construction in Judea and Samaria and in Efrat, because I don't expect anything else from him. I do blame Binyamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister for whom we voted. From him, we expected continued construction and taking possession in Eretz Israel, and we received the exact opposite, he's even worse than Olmert."
Adler added: "We can't be 'politically correct,' we must state the truth. Only Netanyahu brought us the freeze. This did not happen to us in any other government, not that headed by Kadima, and not that headed by Labor. This is his personal invention. He can't put the blame on Barak, he's his boss, and he's the one who has the final word. We're talking about land that is no different from any other place in Eretz Israel, although at present the politicians aren't thinking about construction in this place."
He also spoke about the expansion of the settlement, that is located between Hebron and Bethlehem. "I call this Efrat B, for 2,500 housing units is about all that we have today in Efrat, in which some 9,000 people live. An additional struggle of ours is to bring the hill within the line of the separation fence. We in the Council are struggling all the time for the construction of a road that will reach here."
Rabbi Baruch Efrati of Efrat taught a class there: "We re commanded in the Torah to turn the land into our possession, we are commanded to be settlers and to overcome any other national entity that settled on this portion of land that was given to us. In order to fulfill the commandment, it is not sufficient that we only come up here and build here with the government looking the other way, rather, it is important that this be recognized as legal and official by the government of Israel, otherwise the law of the conquest of the land is not fulfilled. That day might seem far off, but I live in the Zayit neighborhood, and I remember the struggles for that place. Who would have dreamed that the neighborhood would flourish and be full of culture, and be among the most beautiful in the area, as it is now. Thank God, dreams come true, but actions must be taken."
Below please find the YNET article by Yair Altman about this Friday activity on the Eitam Hill in Efrat. The links here below will bring you to the English YNET article, but as they often do, they only partially translated the original Hebrew article, and therefore we are presenting you the full English translation of the Hebrew text.
Yashar koach to the tens of people who came on Friday. It was great to be back on the Eitam and it seems we will have to go back again and again and again.... The struggle two years ago for the Eitam was in order to make sure the Eitam lands would be officially declared belonging to Efrat. That was, thank G-d, achieved. Now we are resuming the struggle in order to actually have building there.
With blessings for a good week,
Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
------------------------------
For English Ynet article (shortened version): http://www.ynetnews.com/
For original Hebrew Ynet article: http://www.ynet.co.il/
Translation of original Hebrew text:
Facts on the Ground
Wanting to Build on Eitam Hill: Netanyahu Is Worse than Olmert
Dozens of settlers went up to the hill next to Efrat, where the construction of 2,500 housing units has been approved. They directed harsh complaints to the Prime Minister: "Only Netanyahu brought us the freeze. He can't put the blame on Barak"
Yair Altman
The settlers are trying to establish facts on the ground - while the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians are at an impasse: this morning (Friday) dozens of Gush Etzion residents came to the Eitam Hill, that is next to Efrat, to proclaim the renewal of the struggle for Jewish rule there. Their going up to the hill was coordinated with and guarded by the IDF, and was organized by the Women in Green organization, headed by Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katsover.
In the past the settlers waged a lengthy battle for control of the hill. In 2009 the Civil Administration rejected the Palestinian appeals for control of the site, and determined that the 1,700 dunams in the area of the hill are state lands. The [Civil] Administration annexed them to the municipal territory of Efrat.
The Housing Ministry finished planning the construction of 2,500 housing units at the site, but the settlers claim that since then no change has taken place on the ground. According to them, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, on his own, is continuing the freeze and preventing them from building there - for political reasons.
"300 dunams of the 1,700 that were annexed to Efrat are the private lands of Jews that were purchased even before the establishment of the State," the deputy head of the Efrat Council, Josh Adler, related. "Unlike many council heads and leaders in Judea and Samaria, I don't blame Ehud Barak for the lack of construction in Judea and Samaria and in Efrat, because I don't expect anything else from him. I do blame Binyamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister for whom we voted. From him, we expected continued construction and taking possession in Eretz Israel, and we received the exact opposite, he's even worse than Olmert."
Adler added: "We can't be 'politically correct,' we must state the truth. Only Netanyahu brought us the freeze. This did not happen to us in any other government, not that headed by Kadima, and not that headed by Labor. This is his personal invention. He can't put the blame on Barak, he's his boss, and he's the one who has the final word. We're talking about land that is no different from any other place in Eretz Israel, although at present the politicians aren't thinking about construction in this place."
He also spoke about the expansion of the settlement, that is located between Hebron and Bethlehem. "I call this Efrat B, for 2,500 housing units is about all that we have today in Efrat, in which some 9,000 people live. An additional struggle of ours is to bring the hill within the line of the separation fence. We in the Council are struggling all the time for the construction of a road that will reach here."
Rabbi Baruch Efrati of Efrat taught a class there: "We re commanded in the Torah to turn the land into our possession, we are commanded to be settlers and to overcome any other national entity that settled on this portion of land that was given to us. In order to fulfill the commandment, it is not sufficient that we only come up here and build here with the government looking the other way, rather, it is important that this be recognized as legal and official by the government of Israel, otherwise the law of the conquest of the land is not fulfilled. That day might seem far off, but I live in the Zayit neighborhood, and I remember the struggles for that place. Who would have dreamed that the neighborhood would flourish and be full of culture, and be among the most beautiful in the area, as it is now. Thank God, dreams come true, but actions must be taken."
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