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′Our Land of Israel′ movement activists Conference

Today, Wednesday, the tenth of Adar an activist conference will take place.  The conference will take place at "Merkaz HaChassidus, 22 Bar Ilan Street, Bnei Brak, at 4:00 p.m. Activists at the conference will discuss a wide range of topics, particularly assistance for the settlements, the struggle against the freeze decree and the uniting of all factions in the struggle for the integrity of the country. Rabbis, leaders of the movement, activists, and public figures, will attend the conference.

Dozens of scholarships to support settlement
′SOS- Israel′ recently awarded tens of scholarships to support and help the settlement and needy families. SOS chairman, Rabbi Shalom Dov Volpo says that the nation of Israel must assist and help the Jewish settlement at this time. The situation touches the very core of our souls. Rabbi Volpo calls upon the public to help and support. To take part in this holy work, please call (toll- free) 1-800-450-400 and contribute.

Secretaries of Towns and Kibbutzim at Gush Katif Museum
A group of town secretaries from Ilaniya to Kibbutz Cholit in the South have visited the Gush Katif Museum. The Secretaries are participating in a secretarial course of the center of Union of Agricultural Settlements, visited Jerusalem Zionist Archives and the Supreme Court, and then toured the museum.  They were very interested in the goings on in the Gush Katif Museum, where they learned the story of the agricultural and communal settlements up until the expulsion.
 

Chock Full of Mitzvos Like a Pomegranate
Rabbi Zvi Rimon, who initiated and established the ′JobKatif, that merits to help hundreds of our fellow deportees with total devotion, visited the Gush Katif Museum

in Yerushalayim. Rabbi Rimon was moved to tears;             

at the end of the visit he wrote in the visitors book:" I have been greatly privileged to be with the residents of Gush Katif for nearly five years, as part of ′JobKatif′ - to bring them back into the workforce. I saw the wonderful residents of Gush Katif when the Gush was in all its′ glory, I saw the residents of Gush Katif with broken hearts in the process of being uprooted and broken upon their arrival to the hotels. I saw families humiliated and destroyed during the last stay (a half a year) in hotels. I see how amazing people who worked and toiled all their lives, who created and built from dawn to sunset, find themselves without work, broken and damaged. Yet, during my visit to the Gush Katif Museum, I realized that: gates of tears are not locked!

"For Me too, who continuously accompanies the tragedy that fatally attacks all the time, visiting the museum gave added more pain to my broken heart, added a tear to to my basket full of tears. Nevertheless, we know: G-d keeps the tears at in His treasury, and with tears a building will be built. The prayers and tears are a significant stage in building our salvation. The amazing power of Gush Katif has not disappeared! G-d and the Jewish people drew on this power, and G-d′s help we will soon merit the Redemption, the rebuilding of Yerushalayim and the Land of Israel. Writing with tears,

Yosef Zvi Rimon."

IBA, Ayala Hasson and Peer-li Shachar paid compensation to the rightist activist

Israel Broadcasting Authority and radio announcers Ayala Hasson- Nesher, Peer Li Shachar, and Yuli Ofek recently paid compensation and expenses of 60,000 NIS to attorney Aviad Visoli, for libeling him. Haifa Magistrate′s Court ruled that the Broadcasting Authority and these journalists compensate Visoli for broadcasting a news item on the Yoman Hashavua and Mabat programs, in the name of Amram Mitzna, stating that Visoli was active in the extreme right.