Israel\’s Education Minister Gideon Sa\’ar announced a plan to bring Israeli students to visit the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron. The plan, which was announced Tuesday, reportedly isn\’t going over well with many school administrators or students.
Members of a Palestinian terror cell were indicted for the murder of an American tourist in a forest near Jerusalem. Four Palestinians from villages near Hebron were indicted Wednesday in Jerusalem District Court for the murder of Christine Logan, 40, also identified by some media outlets as Christine Luken, and for the attempted murder of her hiking partner Susan Kaye Wilson. The two women were attacked Dec. 18, 2010, while hiking at Khirbet Hanut, an archaeological site near Beit Shemesh. Wilson pretended to be dead and survived the ordeal and provided descriptions of the attackers. The suspects reportedly have confessed to the attack.
The word is that UNESCO is on an anti-Semitic tear, trying to “de-Judaize” and “Islamicize” two of the most holy Jewish sites in this country – the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah praised Hamas on Friday for the West Bank shooting attacks which left four Israelis dead and two injured on two consecutive days, saying \”this is the way to free Jerusalem and Palestine.\”
Stonethrowers lightly wounded an Israeli girl traveling in the West Bank, the third such attack since the relaunch of peace talks this week.
Three unarmed Israeli soldiers who accidentally entered the Arab-controlled area of Hebron were attacked and wounded.\n\nThe soldiers, stationed near Hebron, lost their way Thursday during a physical training exercise.\n
\” . . . I am so proud of Rob Eshman. His condemnation of Bernard Madoff flies in the faces of those many Jews who believe in the lunacy that Jews can do no wrong . . . \”
\” , , , Eshman, here is the question I have for you: Brother can you spare a dime? . . . \”
This is Judaism\’s second holiest site, being that Jacob is the Jewish forefather and as his 12 sons became the 12 tribes of Israel.
The violent settler response to the evacuation of the building, dubbed the House of Contention by Israeli media and called the Peace House by settlers, was symptomatic of a relatively new phenomenon: growing numbers of radical settlers who feel alienated from the state, don\’t accept its authority and are ready to use violence to prevent it from taking action against settler interests.
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