• Beit Hadassah

    LAND FOR PEACE OR PEACE FOR PEACE

    Exactly 20 years ago, Rosh HaShana eve, about 11:30 pm. I was downstairs at Beit Hadassah, near the museum, taking a look at emergency supplies with my friend Uri Karzen, when it started. Massive shooting. Unlike anything we’d heard before.
    Little did we know that this was the beginning of what’d we’d predicted all along, that is, the Oslo war, otherwise known as the 2nd intifada, which continued for over 2 years. And countless deaths.

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Earthquakes

THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE BEING STRICKEN BY EARTHQUAKES. It may seem to some that this is a fallacious statement. After all, only the coast city of Eilat has been badly hit, and there the damage has been mostly material. One man died of a heart attack following the first quake on Wednesday morning. The fact there their wasn’t greater loss […]

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Eviction of the Forefathers from Hebron

Hebron-Past, Present and Foreverby David WilderEviction of the Forefathers from Hebron November 1, 1995 Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, after making a special whirlwind trip to Hebron, ordered General Ilan Biran, Commander of the Central Region, to immediately evict the Patriarchs and Matriarchs from Hebron. His orders come on the heels of Arafat’s latest ultimatum. Here is what happened: One week […]

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Speaking your Piece (or is it Peace)?

Hebron-Past,Present and ForeverSpeaking your Piece (or is it Peace)? Sunday, October 29, 1995  Last week the President of the State of Israel, Mr. Ezer Weitzman, made some unkind remarks about the Piece plan. In particular he said that the “agreement isn’t an agreement” and that a one-vote majority in the Knesset does not justify the withdrawal from Judea, Samaria and […]

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? The Ghettoization of Hebron ?

Many of you who have visited Hebron are familiar with the Avraham Avinu neighborhood – commonly known as “the Jewish Quarter” – the heart of the Jewish Community of Hebron. The Jewish Quarter was founded over 450 years ago by Rabbi Malchiel Ashkenazi, who arrived in Hebron from Turkey after being exiled from Spain in 1492. He initiated construction of […]

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The BIG 100,000

One morning last week Likud MK Limor Livnat was interviewed on an early morning Israel TV news show. Limor is a young, right-wing, up and coming leader of the Likud. On the morning she was interviewed she, along with a group Likud MK’s, was due to visit Gush Etzion- Efrat in the morning and then later on, Kiryat Arba- Hebron. […]

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Mordechai the Tzaddik

Hebron-Past, Present and Foreverby David Wilder Mordechai the Tzaddik 15 Tishrei 5756Sunday, October 15, 1995 Friday afternoon I came home from one of the most exhilarating experiences I’ve had in a long, long time. Hebron had a very special visitor – Mordechai ben David. Mordechai ben David, for those of you who may not know, is THE number one Hasidic […]

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Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of …

Hebron-Past, Present and Foreverby David WilderThough I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of …(Psalms 23) April 10, 1995Erev Pesach Which shadow? The Psalmist, David, King of Israel,wrote, “Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of de a t h, I will fear no evil, for You are with me,” for,”the L-rd is my Shepherd.” Is this […]

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The Morning After or The Day Before

Welcome to the New Era of Peace! Today only one Jew (a Yeshiva student from Yeshivat Ateret Cohanim) was seriously injured in the Old City in Jerusalem, stabbed in the back by a peace-loving Arab who couldn’t control himself and only two firebombs were thrown into the Avraham Avinu Neighborhood in Hebron. ——————————————————— Yesterday afternoon, and into the evening, thousands […]

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Signing

Hebron – 3:30 PM Israel time I am sitting in the Hebron settlers gift shop – underneath Ma’arat HaMachpela. In an hour a major demonstration is scheduled to begin here in Hebron. In another two and a half hours Rabin and Arafat are supposed to be affixing their signatures to a document betraying Eretz Yisrael and the Jewish People. People […]

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The New Year

Several minutes ago the “Israeli delegation” led by Shimon Peres, initialed an agreement with the terrorist Arafat, that, in their opinion, effectively transfers the heart of Eretz Yisrael to a foreign terrorist power. On the face of it, the Israeli govenment has defeated us. They have managed to sign an agreement that transfers almost all civilian and military responsiblity to […]

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