למרות ואולי דווקא בזכות השעה המאוחרת, הגיעו מאות רבים מכל רחבי הארץ להשתתף בצעדת נשים בירוק בליל תשעה באב
לאחר קריאת מגילת איכה מרגשת מפי דוד ובנצי מטר שמעו הנוכחים נאומים מפי הרב מרדכי רבינוביץ, ח"כ פרופ' אריה אלדד, ח"כ דר מיכאל בן ארי, לוחם לח"י עזרא יכין ואריה יצחקי, ממגורשי גוש קטיף. כולם הדגישו את החשיבות של המאבק על ארץ ישראל. לפני הצעדה קרא הציבור קריאה של "שחררו את יונתן פולארד".
כשהצעדה עברה ליד שער שכם, והצועדים מניפים בגאון את דגל ישראל ואלפי ערבים משקיפים על הצועדים, הבינו כולם עד כמה חשובה היתה ההתעקשות לדבוק במסלול השנתי.
ליד שער האריות התפלל הרב יוסף מנדלביץ תפילה לשחרור יונתן פולארד ולהחלמתו השלמה ואמר קדיש עבור כל היהודים שנהרגו במקום זה, אם בעת המלחמות נגד הרומאים בזמן בית שני או ב1967 כשצנחנינו פרצו דרך שער זה לשחרור העיר.
מרגש ביותר היתה העובדה שבין הצועדים הגיעו הרבה עולים חדשים מארה"ב ומצרפת שבאו מכל הארץ לקחת חלק בארוע מרומם זה.
הצעדה הסתיימה ליד הכותל עם תפילה להקב"ה שבע"ה משיח יבוא ובשנה הבאה נוכל לעלות להר הבית ולבנות את בית המקדש.
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The People demand Erets Israel!
Despite the late hour, hundreds of people attended the Women in Green yearly walk around the walls.
After a beautiful and moving Eicha reading by David and Bentsie Matar at the Independence Park across the American consulate, the crowd listened to the different speakers: Rabbi Mordechai Rabinovitch, MK Professor Arieh Eldad, MK Dr Michael Ben Ari, Lehi fighter Ezra Yachin and historian Arieh Yitzhaki- all emphasizing our loyalty to the Land of Israel and a united Jerusalem.
Before leaving for the walk, the crowd called "Free Pollard Now" for Jonathan Pollards release. At the Lion's Gate the crowd stopped and listened to Rabbi Yossef Mendelevitch's special prayer for the release and complete recovery of Jonathan Pollard. Rabbi Mendelevitch also said kaddish for the many Jews who died at that very spot, whether during the second
When the walk passed the Damascus Gate, with Jews carrying hundreds of Israeli flags, while thousands of Arabs were celebrating their Ramadan, everybody understood how important it was that Women in Green leaders had insisted on keeping that original route and had not caved in to the police's demand to change the route.
Among the participants in the walk were many English and French speaking olim who came from all over the country to be part in this special event. The walk ended by the Dung Gate and people went to the Kotel to pray ,with the fervent hope that by next year, Moshiach will come and we will be able to go up to the Temple Mount and witness the building of the Third Temple.
Below please find a translation of Nadia Matar's speech at the walk
For Gemma Blech's pictures of the Eicha reading and the walk please click on
With love for
Women for
The People Demands Eretz Israel by Nadia Matar
Eretz Israel is the man topic in our generation. In each generation there is another prime topic. Our enemies help us in focusing on that issue. Once it was Torah study and the observance of the commandments. Jews who studied Torah were persecuted. Circumcision was performed clandestinely. Today, it is possible to study Torah, it is possible to observe kashrut, and it is possible to conduct circumcisions. But if you put two Jews in a karavan (mobile housing unit) or a hut on some hill in Judea and Samaria, the entire world will jump up and denounce and shout "Gevalt!"
The real struggle today is therefore, first and foremost, over Eretz Israel - the national home. Actually, we can say that a successful struggle for the national home will solve all the - real - problems concerning the private home of each Israeli citizen. With all due respect, the tent protest did not begin on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, but on the hills of Judea and Samaria, when our wonderful youth understood that we must correct the sin of the spies, that we must guard Eretz Israel, build it, and settle it, and established me'ahazim (outpost settlements) with tents and huts, and this Zionist activity showed the way for the leadership and for all of us the solution to the problems of our country: the settlement of Eretz Israel!
If we had fair, and not extreme leftist, media, that wants to remove the subject of Eretz Israel from the stage before September, and is interested solely in covering and aggrandizing events organized mainly by anarchists, Communists, and anti-Israeli activists whose sole goal is to bring down the government and establish a Palestinian state in the heart of the land - the entire people of Israel would have heard about the tremendous conference that we held three weeks ago in Hebron, with the participation of hundreds of people from throughout Israel, in which the explicit call went forth for the application of Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria. MKs Tsipi Hotovely and Aryeh Eldad, Caroline Glick, Yoram Ettinger, Prof. Rafi Yisraeli, Eren Bar-Tal, Dr. Gabi Avital, and Dr. Yitzhak Klein all explained how the application of sovereignty over Judea and Samaria is the only option. The application of sovereignty over Judea and Samaria will solve our country's political, social, and economic problems.
Unlike those who demonstarte in the past few weeks in Tel Aviv,we don't have the millions of dollars of the New Israel Fund to organize grandiose productions every day and to receive free media coverage - but we have the faith in the rightness of our way, determination, and mainly, the wonderful youth, who is so devoted to the people and the land, the same youth that is our future.
This evening, when we weep for the destruction of the Temple, the First and Second Temples, the destruction of the Yamit district, and the destruction of Gush Katif, we have come, for 17 years in a row, to encircle the walls of the city, like a bride encircling her bridegroom under the wedding canopy, to say the simplest thing: united Jerusalem is our capital, for all eternity. The Temple Mount is our heart, and we long for the building of the Third Temple there. Eretz Israel belongs to the people of Israel. Come, let's build everywhere in it, let's establish new settlements in Judea and Samaria, in Galilee and in the Negev, let's bring another million Jews here, and you will see how Israel will flourish.
In the words of Rabbi Yehudah Alkalai:
Great is the day when Israel shall gather to make settlements, to work the land, to plow and sow, to build, and to plant [...] to bring healing and cure for all our ills and for all our pains. We have no other remedy than to settle our holy land. Working the soil is the land's consolation, the land's redemption.
Since the expulsion from Gush Katif, our movement, Women for Israel's Tomorrow-Women in Green, has been engaged in the redemption of the land of Eretz Israel. Together with Yehudit Katsover, my dear friend and partner, an indefatigable fighter for Eretz Israel for more than forty years - and together with you, dear members and supporters, supportive public figures, and dear family members - for these six years we have been concentrating on the struggle for Eretz Israel, actually on the ground, on the hills of Judea. The successful struggle to open the Zatara route, the successful struggle to return the IDF to the Shdema camp and Adurayim, and the struggle over state lands on the hills of Netzer in Gush Etzion. This is a stubborn struggle in which, with your support, we planted, and continue to plant, hundreds of trees in places on which the Arabs have their eyes. Thanks to the plantings, we prevent the Arabs from taking over these lands.
Every day the Arabs, who are well financed by the European Union, are taking control of the lands of Eretz Israel, day and night. They build, undisturbed, in Areas A, B, and C, and their goal is clear: to choke the Jewish settlement, to remove it, and to establish in its place a Palestinian state whose sole aim is the elimination of the little State of Israel.
Our movement's struggle is local in the Netzer area. There is an urgent need to intensify and expand this struggle all over, in order to guard every place in Judea and Samaria for future generations. Looking toward September, that is fast approaching, in which our enemies will wage a frontal attack on Eretz Israel, we must respond with by going on the offensive. We must declare, already today, that Eretz Israel belongs to the people of Israel; to make it clear in every way possible that we will devotedly defend our land, like a lioness defends her cubs. Restraining orders or High Court of Justice rulings will be of no avail. To the contrary, this will only increase our wonderful youth's determination to struggle for the land.
In the words of Rabbi Shmuel Mohliver:
The settlement of the land, that is: to buy land and to build houses, to plant orchards, and to sow fields - is one of the greatest commandments of our Torah, and some of our early sages say that this is equivalent to the entire Torah. For every true lover of the cities of Zion and Jerusalem, thought is not enough, rather, he will do and act, with his body and his money, and then G-d will grant success to all our undertakings, the ruined and desolate land will become the garden of the L-rd, and the despised and lowly city will be honored and magnificent.
Amen, may it be His will.
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