Residents of the Shomron communities of Rimonim and nearby Kochav HaShachar convened in an emergency meeting on Tuesday following the IDF removal of an area checkpoint – a move they explain will leave them in a compromised security situation. Also present was Avi Ro’eh, the head of the Benjamin Regional Council which oversees the communities.
Pinchas Wallerstein, the Executive Director of the Yesha Settlement Council [and former head of the Benjamin Council] warned the IDF that if the checkpoint is not reinstated, they will deploy armed civilians in the place of soldiers.
Wallerstein reminded IDF officials that the last time the checkpoint was removed, a local resident was murdered.
Esther Galia, 48, of Kochav HaShachar, the mother of seven children, was shot and mortally wounded by a terrorist who fired nine bullets into her car as she drove home from work in Jerusalem. She was rushed to the hospital, but died from her wounds on the operating table on Nov 18, 2002.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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Ohlemert, Rice and yes Bush are destroying Israel.
P.S. I haven’t forgotten Clinton, Carter, 41 and the rest of the AKU”M club. Ain Lohnoo Lismoch eloh Al Aveenu Shebashomayim.
THAT’S THE WHOLE IDEA–DON’T YOU GET IT?
OLMERT AND BARAK ARE FORCING THE SETTLERS OUT OF THE WEST BANK BY ALLOWING THE ARABS TO MURDER THEM IF THEY STAY!
Deep
The leadership are forcing the Jews out of Israel to make room for the EU investors and Arab symphatizer. You do not have to be in Yehuda and Shomron to get murdered, you can be in yeshiva in Yerushayalim or walking on the streets of Sderot.
Kochav Hashachar is one of the most beautiful places in the world. I was there in the late 80’s when one Friday night we walked up to an army installation which was at an incredible vantage point. We brought the soldiers a full seudah and sang zemiros. We were able to see the moon’s reflection on Yam Hamelach way to the south, the lights of Yerushalayim to the southwest, as well as Teveriah to the North and (l’havdil) Amman Jordan to the East.
It is a frum settlement inhabited by Yidden, many of them American’s, at the urging of the government at the time. Now like Gush, they are chas v’shalom in danger, being abandoned by that very gov’t.
While every Gush picture and video rips my heart this hits home alot harder.
Heshem Yishmor