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August 3, 2007 A few days ago I toured with an American family from California. A fifteen-sixteen year old youth asked me the same question any number of times during the two hours we spent together. I don’t know if I was able to satisfactorily respond to his queries. When we were at Beit Hadassah and I described how the […]

July 25, 2007 Yesterday the Jewish people marked the fast day, Tisha b’Av – the ninth day of Av. Exactly 1938 years ago the heart of Israel went up in flames. On the 9th day of Av the Second Temple was destroyed by the Roman army. Some 650 years previously, on the exact same day, the First Temple was razed […]

May 20, 2007 Last week was Hebron Liberation Day, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the return to the City of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs during the 1967 Six-day War. This is always a momentous event, and this year even more so, considering all that’s been happening in Israel over the past months and years. When the Israel Defense Forces entered […]

April 19, 2007 Women and children in communal kitchen/dining roomat Beit HaShalom In a few days we’ll be celebrating the State of Israel’s 59th birthday. In a couple of weeks we’ll be marking the fortieth anniversary of the Jewish people’s return to Jerusalem and Hebron. There are, it seems, many people who ask themselves: what are we celebrating, or should […]

March 28, 2007 LIFE IN JEWISH HEBRONFrom: AFSI: Mideast Outpost [http://mideastoutpost.com/] or http://www.afsi.org/OUTPOST/2007/Outpost_2007_04.pdf (Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles Outpost will publish on the most important Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, the much maligned “settlements.”) If the Jewish people has undeniable rights anywhere on earth it is in Hebron. Hebron, numbered among the four […]

March 26, 2007 Last week Hebron’s Jewish community received a green light from its attorneys, Eitan Geva and Nadav HaEtzni. The deal was completed to their satisfaction. We could move in. The community purchased a 4,000 sq. meter structure, overlooking the road between Hebron and Kiryat Arba. A complicated and expensive affair which took several years to conclude, the building […]

Give New Leadership a ChanceMarch 1, 2007 I’m joining the Likud – and voting for Feiglin. From David Wilder Many years ago, following the election of Yitzchak Rabin, when the Oslo Accords were still in pre-diapers, and people were looking at each other in shock, with fear and huge question marks in their eyes, the most common question was: What […]

Give New Leadership a ChanceDavid WilderFebruary 25, 2007 Many years ago, following the election of Rabin, when Oslo was still in pre-diapers, and people were looking at each other, in shock, with fear and huge question marks in their eyes, the most common question was: what do we do now. I remember town meetings, clandestine gatherings, and more than anything […]

German intelligence agents spying in HebronFebruary 16, 2007 A group of seven German intelligence agents, identifying themselves as ‘anonymous diplomats’ today began an information-gathering mission in Hebron, led by a member of the Breaking the Silence/Bnei Avraham pro-Arab, anti-Jewish/Israel left-wing extremist organizations. The agents were approached by Hebron spokesmen Noam Arnon and David Wilder, in an attempt to provide them […]

Happy Apartheid WeekDavid WilderFebruary 15, 2007 This week has been declared “Apartheid week” on campuses throughout North America. Spurred on by Carter’s book, Arabs and liberal leftists throughout the world are celebrating international recognition of South Africa in the Middle East. Many op-ed pieces and articles are attacking the apartheid label. But I think they’re wrong. In this case I’m […]