Word: eretz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jews fighting Jews. Jews killing Jews. The idea is anathema in Israel -- yet becoming thinkable to some of the 115,000 settlers who have laid claim to the West Bank land they call Judea and Samaria, an integral part of Eretz Yisrael, the land God gave to the Jews. Although none have yet been asked to relinquish their settlements, many fear the worst is soon to come, and they are determined to resist...
...Rabbi Eliezer Waldman looks more like a prophet than a revolutionary. When he helped found Kiryat Arba, now home to 7,000 Jews near the Palestinian city of Hebron, in 1968, he says, "we felt that God had opened the gates and brought us back to the heart of Eretz Yisrael." As spiritual leader of the Jewish settlement movement, Waldman and a handful of other settlers must decide how they are going to force the Israeli government to renege on the peace agreement. The rabbi is convinced that with demonstrations, the blocking of some roads, interference in the routine workday...
...mother and father felt, had left such a terrible darkness of grief in them, such a residue of adhesive evil, that they feared the communicated memory of it would haunt the child and blight his life. Better he should be a sabra and kibbutznik, raised in the sunshine of Eretz Yisrael...