The return of the Jewish people to its land can and will continue

Michael Freund..
jewishpress.com..
16 January '13..

Earlier this month, a man in uniform you have probably never heard of sat down at his desk and took a quick glance at the piece of paper in front of him containing a military order.

The language was bland and lackluster, bearing no emotion and revealing nothing concerning the momentousness of the event at hand.

But when Nitzan Alon, head of the IDF Central Command, affixed his signature at the bottom of the page, conferring formal recognition upon Rehalim as the 32nd Jewish community in Samaria, it marked a major victory for those who love the Land of Israel.

Located north of Eli and east of Ariel, Rehalim’s story is one of determination and fortitude born out of tragedy. And it should inspire all those who are anxious about the future of the Jewish presence in the cradle of our civilization.

Rehalim’s story stretches back more than two decades, when international pressure began to mount on Israel to make a deal with the Palestinians.

On October 28, 1991, just days before the start of the Madrid peace conference, Palestinian terrorists attacked an Israeli bus that was on its way from Shilo to a rally organized by the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

The bus driver, Yitzchak Rofeh, as well as Rachel Druck, a mother of 7 children, were murdered.

Afterward, Druck’s friends erected tents at the site of the killing and eventually received permission from the government to set up a civilian outpost and religious seminary there. They chose the name Rehalim as a way to memorialize Druck as well as Rachel Weiss, who had been murdered by terrorists three years previously.

By 1997, the government had agreed to upgrade Rehalim from an outpost to a community and it began to flourish, but for reasons that are unclear, the defense minister did not sign off on the final permit, which was the last remaining bureaucratic requirement.

(+ 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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NGO-Leaks

A Joint JoeSettler-Jameel post
The Muqata
22 December '10

For the last few weeks Makor Rishon and Yisrael Hayom have been publishing some astounding material on the organization Yesh-Din and other Left wing groups. Jameel will be publishing some translations in the near future. Last week they had an incredible expose on the activities of Arik Ascherman (the anti-archeologist).

Haaretz Reports that Yesh-Din has filed a complaint with the police because their internal documents have appeared in the newspapers. They believe the Right has a mole in their organization.

Yesh-Din is yet another "Human Rights" organization funded by foreign governments, George Soros and of course the New Israel Fund (NIF).

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Palestinians sue Gush Katif farmers in flurry of lawsuits

Israeljustice.com
01 July '10

JERUSALEM -- In the latest flurry of more than 200 lawsuits, Palestinian workers in Gaza are claiming compensation from 400 Israeli farmers expelled from the Gaza Strip in 2005.

Palestinians, aided by the Yesh Din Human Rights Organization, are continuing to file a flurry of lawsuits against Israeli farmers who were expelled from Gush Katif in August 2005. They are suing in Israeli labor courts for dismissal compensation and for compensation under the minimum wage law. "There are 400 farmers and at least 200 claims against them," Aharon Chazut, chairman of the Gush Katif Framers Committee, said. "Every day recently another one or two claimants are filing suit. Chazut said that many of the Palestinian claimants never worked for the Jewish farmers.

"The onus of proof falls on the farmers and not on the Palestinian claimants," Chazut said. "Some of the claimants never worked for us but you have to prove that they didn't work for you."

Chazut said that he was prepared to ignore the suits but the other farmers decided to hire an attorney to represent them in court. "They are law abiding citizens," Chazut said.

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