Ketzele opens office in Shdema

ENOUGH SHAME! SHDEMA IS JEWISH!

Tens of people showed up in SHDEMA today Friday August 21, 2009, to protest the latest wave of vandalism by the Arabs and international anti-Israeli activists who had come over the past two weeks to Shdema, besmirched the Israeli flag and destroyed part of our storage room.

The morning started with a shiur by Rabbi Shimon Ben Zion from Kiryat Arba Hevron, teacher in Machon Meir, great fighter for Erets Israel (in Chomesh, on hill 26 in Kiryat Arba, Hazon David, and many other places).

After the shiur, the tens of activists who had come from all over Israel to strengthen the Jewish presence in Shdema, marched from the top of the hill to the illegal Arab construction, funded by US and European money, at the bottom of the hill.

At the head of the march was member of Knesset Yaakov Katz (Ketzele) from the National Union who promised to open an office in Shdema and to work from Shdema.

Among the tens of participants, we had the pleasure and honor to have with us a AFSI delegation: Helen Freedman, executive director of AFSI and Bill and Sylvia Mehlman, AFSI Jerusalem, who saw from close the discrimination against the Jews.

While Arabs are allowed to build an entire campus on land that is Israeli controlled(!). the government does not allow any Jewish building or construction!

After the march the participants returned to Shdema to clean and paint the walls that had been vandalized.

We would like to thank Arutz 7 for being there in Shdema faithfully and constantly.

The Committee for a Jewish Shdema has decided to increase its presence in Shdema by coming almost every day for a few hours where we will work on fixing up the buildings. Volunteers who want to join and professional workers (contractors, plumbers, electricians, etc.) are asked to contact us and tell us how they can help. Donations of building materials will be welcomed, too. (So will financial donations.)

The daily shifts in Shdema will start, please G-d, this coming Sunday, August 23, at 4:00pm.

Please contact Nadia Matar 050-5500834 or Yehudit Katzover 050-7161818

Shabbat shalom,

The Committee for a Jewish Shdema and Women in Green


For the link to the Arutz 7 news report on Shdema with a video report: http://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/193378

For pictures by Rivka Ryback and Yossef Hartuv:
http://www.yeshabulletin.com/FIGHT%20BACK/FightBack.htm


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