Har Hevron Regional Council

Ay, na, na-na, na, na.

Mitzpe Yair, Drum, Har Hebron, chag sameach.

Kenny, good moed.

Me, Daniel.

They spent weeks planting trees, building benches, and transforming a scene of hostility into a sanctuary of life.

And we heard this same deep connection to the biblical heartland from Rabbi Yossi Etz Hasadeh, whose remarkable journey took him from a 1,500-acre farm in New Zealand to leading a congregation in Sacramento and ultimately to settling in the Har Hevron region of Judea.

Rabbi Yossi shared his lived reality of working alongside Arab neighbors in high-tech and daily life, pushing back against the distorted media narratives and reminding us of the miracle of standing as a sovereign people in our native homeland.

From Rabbi Buki's early season reflections in Katsrin to the high peaks of the Golan with Yaakov, the hills of Judea with Rabbi Yossi, and the sands of the Negev with Eden, our guests demonstrated that holding the frontier is an act of deep spiritual devotion.