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I received this email from David Bedein, AFSI, Women in Green and Matot Arim:
Also visit link on A7 for news report http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/138778
At four o'clock this morning, Israeli security forces swooped down on Shomron Jewish community at Yitzhar, burst into the home of the local Rosh Yeshiva (head of rabbinical school) and arrested him in front of his 11 young children, on charges stemming from a scholary treatise he wrote - many months ago - relating to the dilemma of when it is permitted and not permitted to use force against non-Jews. Some sources say that pro-Palestinian minister Ehud Barak has also given orders to demolish the rabbi's yeshiva in Yitzhar during Barak's seminal visit in the U.S and indeed, a home of a young couple in Shomron was in fact demolished today. All this is being done while the Knesset, Israel's parliament, is in recess and cannot raise a fuss.
ABROAD: It is vital that Ehud Barak upon arrival in the U.S. be swamped with reasonable requests to cease this barbaric treatment of the Jews in Judea and Samaria and to immediately order the cancellation of the directive to demolish the yeshiva - the pretext being a building code violation from 1998 (12 years ago). This could be a precedent for the IDF to destroy hundreds of public buildings in Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and in Jerusalem. What the Israeli government fears the most is feedback from abroad, so yes, many phone calls can certainly reverse the decisions that have been made. Therefore, foreign citizens pls contact Barak's spokesman, Mr. Seri, at cell phone number 972-50-629-8949.
ISRAELIS AND ABROAD: Use fax or phone to try to get through:
Fax (send to all numbers): 011-972-2-563-2580 (attention: Tzvi Hauser, Cabinet Secretary who reports directly to Netanyahu. And also:
011-972-2-670-5369, 011-972-2-649-6659, 011-972-2-6513955, 011-972-2-6535178, 011-972-2-5664838
Telephone -011-972-2-670-5532 (attention: Tzvi Hauser, Cabinet Secretary)
and also: 011-972-2-675-3227, 011-972-2-640-8457, 011-972-2-6753333 (if told Prime Minister is not present, ask for any Likud aide or legislator)
Dialling from Israel? Omit 011-972 - instead just dial zero.
If you cannot get through by fax and phone, at least email Israel's ministers and MKs and ask them to get on the phone to Mr. Netanyahu, and to get into the press making strong statements, before it is too late for them to help (Timing Is Everything). You can write to all of the following:
ddanon@knesset.gov.il;myaalon@knesset.gov.il;mcachlon@knesset.gov.il;hkatz@knesset.gov.il;
yiskatz@knesset.gov.il;llivnat@knesset.gov.il;gsaar@knesset.gov.il;zpinian@knesset.gov.il;
ypeled@knesset.gov.il;mregev@knesset.gov.il;rrivlin@knesset.gov.il;kshama@knesset.gov.il;ysteinitz@knesset.gov.il;
sshalom@knesset.gov.il;yedelstein@knesset.gov.il;meitan@knesset.gov.il;zelkin@knesset.gov.il;
oakunis@knesset.gov.il;gerdan@knesset.gov.il;bbegin@knesset.gov.il;iaharon@knesset.gov.il;
rilatov@knesset.gov.il;olevy@KNESSET.GOV.IL;aliberman@knesset.gov.il;ulandau@KNESSET.GOV.IL;
slandver@knesset.gov.il;mmatalon@knesset.gov.il;anmichaely@KNESSET.GOV.IL;amiller@knesset.gov.il;
smiseznikov@knesset.gov.il;amarh@knesset.gov.il;fkirshenbaum@knesset.gov.il;drotem@knesset.gov.il;
lshemtov@knesset.gov.il;mgafni@knesset.gov.il;mmozes@KNESSET.GOV.IL;
umaklev@knesset.gov.il;uorbach@KNESSET.GOV.IL;zorlev@knesset.gov.il;dhershkovitz@KNESSET.GOV.IL;
dazulay@knesset.gov.il;aatias@knesset.gov.il;yvaknin@knesset.gov.il;
nzeev@knesset.gov.il;eyishay@knesset.gov.il;amncohen@knesset.gov.il;
amichaeli@knesset.gov.il;ymargi@knesset.gov.il;mnahari@knesset.gov.il;
Please pass this on to your pro-Israel friends (and friends in Israel).
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Sincerely,
Robin Ticker
This email is L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) a great activist and lover of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichrono Baruch.