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Printed in the Jerusalem Post, January 17, 2007 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467756313&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull The Arabic word for whore – sharmuta – has gained international notoriety. CNN, ABC and the BBC, among many others, have featured Hebron resident Yifat Alkobi yelling it at her Arab neighbor across the street from her Tel Rumeida home. Israel Radio and Israel’s television stations have all broadcast reports on […]

January 12, 2007   Over the past few days Israeli media and blogs around the world have been chewing, regurgitating, and chewing again, a short video, filmed in Hebron a few months ago. The video shows Hebron resident Yifat Alkobi yelling and cursing some of her Arab neighbors, the Abu Isha family, who live across the street from the Alokobis […]

Open Letter to the Director of Amnesty International We strongly protest the description of your visit in Hebron, the conclusions you so arbitrarily reached, and the fact that you refuse to meet and discuss the issues involved with representatives of Hebron’s Jewish community. From David Wilder & Noam Arnon December 26, 2006 Ms. Irene KhanAmnesty InternationalFax: 44-20-795611571 212 463 91931 212 […]

Yesterday morning I was getting ready to leave our Beit Hadassah apartment. It was just after eight. At 8:30 I usually spend about half an hour learning with my friend Rabbi Yisrael Shlissel in the Ohr Shlomo Kollel (Torah study hall) in Tel Rumeida. My cell phone rang. It was Rabbi Yisrael: “We won't be able to study together this […]

Marwan, Yigal, and Akiva December 4, 2006   Absurdity levels are difficult to measure. Today Defense Minister Peretz gave orders forbidding apprehension of terrorists in Judea and Samaria without the expressed permission of the commander of forces in Judea and Samaria. In other words, if a wanted killer is seen standing on a street corner in downtown Jenin, an official […]

November 27, 2006 Friday afternoon I was just coming out of a store in Kiryat Arba, when, getting into the car, I received one of the scariest phone calls I can recall. On the other end was Gerri. Gerri’s husband Shlomo and I have been friends for about 30 years, of which he and Gerri have spent the last 20 […]

    22 November 2006   The Honorable Robert Rydberg Ambassador Embassy of Sweden Asia House 4, Rehov Weizmann 64 239 Tel Aviv Israel Fax: 03 718 00 05 ambassaden.tel-aviv@foreign.ministry.se Dear Mr. Rydberg, We have been informed that the Swedish foreign ministry has appealed to the government of Israel concerning an attack on Swedish citizen Tove Johansson, in Hebron, on […]

  Please pray for the baby: Yair Nisi ben Roni Bat-tzion who was critically injured in an auto accident   November 24, 2006   Shabbat is starting in just over an hour, but there are some things that you feel like you have to write, even if time is short. I was busy earlier with a group from Lakewood, New […]

    October 30, 2006   Well, it’s that time of the year again.   “What time?” you ask.   The holidays are over, the rain and cold are starting to move in. Hebron tours continue, but that’s nothing new. So, what time of the year is it?   According to the Hebrew calendar, tomorrow, the ninth day of Heshvan, […]

  Simcha by David Wilder The Jewish Community of Hebron October 22, 2006   Well, I guess life is somewhat back to normal, whatever that is. The holidays concluded a week ago, and that’s given me time to take a deep breath and start to recover.   Maybe that’s not the correct phrase to use; recovery sounds like recuperating from […]