Gush Etzion

And Reb Nathan says that he could swear that when Reb Na- Rebbe Nachman was saying Shema Yisrael, Hashem Elokeinu, Hashem Echad, on his deathbed at the young age of thirty-eight due to tuberculosis, he could swear, Reb Nathan could swear, he could promise that it was as if Rebbe Nachman was saying the Shema for the first time.

You know, as we saw here in Gush Etzion, painfully enough, about nine, ten days ago, how people live their Torah till their last breath.

Like Ari Fuld lived his Torah till the last breath that he had by protecting Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael.

Rebbe Nachman, till his last second, was living the Torah of Hitḥadshut, of becoming new.

Thank you.

So Shoshana, like I said, she is the daughter of Irit Struk, which is the minister for settlements in the Gush Etzion area.

Whenever you hear about settlements this is like her position.

She's like kind of extreme right and actually like most people in Israel didn't really like her in advance like most of them.

One of them is a journalist named Ronnie Zinger, which works at Cannes, which is like the public broadcasting channel.

And she actually did like a full length TV kind of a docu movie.

about this subject, and she focused on five girls in Gush Etzion, which is like in...

They're from the

Here's a call for the people living in the tribe of Binyamin, which is right north of Yerushalayim, to quickly get away from the area of Yerushalayim, because the enemy is about to come.

In the city of Tkoah, which is southeast of Yerushalayim, very close to the city of Tkoah today, in the eastern side of Gush Etzion.

Here's a play on words.

When an enemy is coming, the civil defense people blow the shofro to tell the people to take refuge or to take up their positions in the walled city.

The Jordanians seized this territory and ethnically cleansed that area.

In fact, my great-uncle was taken prisoner by the Jordanians, defending his home in Gush Etzion.

And when Israel recovered that territory, the first Israelis who moved back sought to re-establish the communities that had been extinguished, that had been ethnically cleansed by the Jordanians.

This is the reality behind the inversion that the Foreign Secretary is putting forward.

And he told me, listen, you got some energy.

I really want you to come and help me out in Gush Etzion, where you live.

And we started like this because we become very good friends.

And Slowly, a few years ago, we became partners.

We are together doing it.

Back then, the company was building a very big place, 700 units, and maybe another two places.

Today we have around 25 settlements all over Judea and Samaria, really from all over, like Jordan Valley, Samaria, Bind Amin region, and Gush Etzion, Judea, and even close to Be'er Sheva we get.

I think we are like all over the

So there are different things that could also be banned from being exported, uh, if, uh, these authorities find, these states find that they would support, uh, the continuing, uh, presence of, of settlements and the continuing existence of settlements.

So just to go back to the first point, if, if, if the, if Britain says, "Okay, Israeli exporters, you now have to show us that this product comes from Ramat Gan, it, uh, in Israel, metropolitan Israel," as you called it, "It doesn't come from Gush Ezyon in the West Bank," do you think that the Israeli exporters and the Israeli, Israeli government are gonna allow that to happen?

So that's a good question and as, as you know very well, the, the devil is in the details, right?

Mm-hmm.

As part of that foreboding, he castigated the Religious Zionist movement while since the 1967 war of Ju- when they conquered Judea and Samaria, the religious people have concentrated much of its energy in settling the West Bank beyond the confines of the small enclaves.

And these enclaves, uh, concern Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem, the corridor to Ariel, which cuts across the northern central part of the country, uh, uh, a little beyond the city of Ma'ale Adumim, which is east of Jerusalem, parts of the Jordan Valley, south and north of the Green Line, whose inclusion into the state is part of a broad consensus of Israel's Jewish population.

Now, the professor, uh, liked, liked to quote a Talmudic adage, said, "Tefasteh merubah lo tefasteh," if you try to get the maximum, uh, you lose striving for too much.

And, um, so he, um, he argued that the religious Jews should concentrate their efforts on settling the Galilee and the Negev and not Judea and Samaria in order to preserve Jewish majority in the Galilee and the Negev.