Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
Schneller: Jewish Hebron Will Connect to Israel
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Israel will enlarge Jewish settlement enclaves in the West Bank city of Hebron and include them within the country’s final borders, said Otniel Schneller, a lawmaker who is helping to formulate Olmert’s realignment plan.
It was the first time a government official has said Israel intends on retaining the volatile area, located well inside the West Bank, under Olmert’s plan to unilaterally set Israel’s final borders by 2008.
Motorists Attacked on Trans-Samaria Highway
IDF Continues Artillery Fire into Northern Gaza
Emakim Police Apprehend PA Illegals
Gunfire Directed at Soldiers From S. Gaza
Terrorists Fire at Soldiers South of Jenin
Rocks, Paint Thrown at Israeli Car Near Nablus
Police Catch 45 Palestinians Illegals Overnight
IDF Artillery Shelling Northern Gaza
Mortar Shells Land Near Nahal HaBasor
Shots Fired at IDF Outpost Near Gaza Fence
Our Parsha Bamidbar, once getting past the numbers crunching of the census, speaks of Degalim: the flags of the Sh’vatim (Tribes), as a paradigm of Unity whch is inclusive of diversity within the various components, all of which play essential roles within a collective unity. Within a unity, there is room for integration and cooperation of diverse individual and group attributes, skillls, strong points and actions when channeled toward the common goals of Unity, i.e. the common goals of B’nai Yisrael.
Bush Expresses Cautious Approval of Convergence Plan
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said after his meeting with US President George W. Bush in the White House that he was “very satisfied” with the understanding reached concerning his plan for possible unilateral withdrawal from parts of the West Bank.
In a briefing for Israeli reporters after the meeting, Olmert stressed that Bush’s remarks about his plan, in which the president called Olmert’s ideas “bold” and “important steps towards peace,” were made in a “very clear and remarkable way,”
Gush Katif Kids Get Help From Organization for Immigrant Education
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Shuvu, an organization focused on establishing schools in Israel originally for the benefit of Jewish children who immigrated from the former Soviet Union, will be providing classroom space for 50 schoolchildren from Gush Katif who have been moved from place to place, and from school to school, for the past nine months. The students, who studied in the now-closed Atzmona Talmud Torah in the tent-city known as Ir Emunah, began classes today at the Shuvu School in Nitzan, where many of the former Gush Katif families have moved.
Minister Sheetrit: Terror Will Continue After Consolidation Plan
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Although Mean Meir has a problem with the continuation of terror after ‘convergence’, dimes to dollars that his obvious blind hatred for religious Jews, anything Jewish and Eretz Yisrael would blind him to all of the dangers if or when it comes to voting time on ‘convergence.’ No profile in courage here! MB
Ticking Time Bomb in Jewish Quarter
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The following announcement was on the bulletin board at Yeshivat Hakotel in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City Monday: “Friday, 9:00-9:30 A.M., lesson in Rambam’s Hilchot Avoda (rules of Temple worship); the Temple vessels and those who use them, given by Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzahl.” The public notice boards in the alleyways of the Jewish Quarter were plastered with posters offering “Torah scrolls written by scribes with certificates and recommendations from the Mishmeret Stam Institute;” “instrumental music and singing lessons for Levites;” and “How can we live without the Temple: When will we wake up? How long will we sleep?”
Five Gunmen Killed in Shootout With IDF Soldiers in Ramallah
IDF Artillery Retaliation for PA Rocket-Fire
Two Rockets Fired From Gaza; One Lands in Netiv Ha’asarah
11 Illegal Bedouin Buildings Tore Down, Thousands Remain
Making like they’re doing something:
Government authorities Wednesday carried out a court order and tore down 11 buildings in the Negev on land occupied by Bedouins. Only four of the structures were occupied.
There are tens of thousands of illegally built shacks and houses throughout the Negev where Bedouin tribes have squatted on land, claiming it is theirs by tradition. Authorities periodically ask the courts permission to demolish a small number of them.
PM to Give Palestinians 6-9 Months to Negotiate
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Differing, conflicting signals of mis-information, dis-information are issued on this issue by the day! MB
Only ’20-30 Settlements’ to be Removed
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s plans for the division of the West Bank involve the dismantling and relocation of 20 to 30 settlements, and not the previously assumed evacuation of the vast majority of the settlements on the far side of the security barrier, the prime minister’s adviser for settlements, Uzi Keren, has told The Jerusalem Post.
Cabinet Ministers in Sderot: Schools to Remain Unprotected
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Just hours after a Kassam hit a miraculously empty classroom in Sderot yesterday, the money to rocket-proof the city’s schools was found. Defense Minister Peretz now says it won’t happen so fast.
Peretz: No Chance to Fortify Schools by September
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Despite announcing plan Sunday to armor Gaza perimeter schools immediately, by Monday defense minister cynical about likelihood of completing security construction by next school year; IDF officials: Fortifying schools will take long time – plan needs wide budget, exact planning.
