(+ Video) Beit El residents battle to save their homes

Tova Lazaroff
JPost
09 December '11

Yifat Abudram wants to understand how the state could threaten to knock down her home next April, when it gave her a NIS 90,000 grant to buy the ground floor apartment 11 years ago.

Her home is one of 30 endangered apartments located at the outskirts of the Beit El settlement, in an area nicknamed the "Ulpana."



A court battle over the fate of the five small stone apartment buildings — which each house six families — has gone on since 2008. But most residents knew nothing about it until the late summer or early fall.

Abudram, a mother of five, is expecting to give birth to her sixth child this month. She first knew there was a problem when she read about it in the newspaper.

“I was in shock,” she told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday as she sat in her living room, next to a bookshelf filled with religious texts.

“I have cried a lot,” she said.

But she has not stood silent. For months she and her neighbors have led a pitched political campaign to save their homes.

On Thursday, they hosted a representative from the Prime Minister’s Office and MK Faina Kirschenbaum (Israel Beiteinu). But scores of other politicians, including ministers, have visited.

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