From Brooklyn For A Safe Israel: Fwd: AFSI Was There - Holding Onto the Land. AFSI Newsletter June 15, 2018

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From: AFSI Americans for A Safe Israel/AFSI <info@afsi.org>
Date: Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 1:29 PM
Subject: AFSI Was There - Holding Onto the Land
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Friday - June 15, 2018

AFSI Was There - With Women in Green - Holding Onto the Land

That Would Become the New Home for the

Displaced Jews of Netiv HaAvot

Rainy confrontation in Netzer:

Arabs attack AFSI and Women in Green members planting trees (Winter 2011)

It was the Fall of 2011 and Americans for a Safe Israel/AFSI was in Israel with its Chizuk Mission, preparing to go to Hebron for Shabbat Chaye Sarah. We had previously arranged with Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katzover of Women in Green (WIG) to meet them in Netzer, a contested area between Alon Shvut and Elazar, in order to plant trees so as to preserve the area for Jewish life. The day was rainy, but that didn't deter us. We met Nadia and Yehudit as planned and began the planting. The confrontation with the Arabs was NOT planned, as the below video shows. But AFSI and WIG persevered.

It is because of the ongoing efforts of Nadia and Yehudit, and AFSI when the opportunity was there, that Netzer was saved and will now become the site of the new homes for the displaced Jews of Netiv HaAvot, who just experienced the irrational, unjustified, despicable demolition of their Jewish homes by the Jewish government in the Jewish homeland.

May this be the last such desecration of Jewish life in Israel.

Read the more on this story here.

AFSI CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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Sunday - June 17 @ 9:30 AM

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner Discusses her NEW BOOK "Harpoon: Inside the Covert War Against Israel's Money Masters"

"Harpoon" tells the story of former Mossad leader, Meir Dagan, and the secret task force he created to track and disrupt terror financing. This is the unit and the agents that Shurat HaDin worked with over the years. After many months navigating through IDF censorship, "Harpoon" (which is the name of the unit, only declassified recently) was published in November and tells the story of how Israel spearheaded the war on terror from a financial angle. The U.S. and other countries have since followed suit.

Young Israel of West Hempstead | 630 Hemsptead Avenue, West Hempstead, NY

Thursday - June 21, 2018 @ 6:30 PM

An Article of Hope - Jews in Space: Members of the Tribe in Orbit

When Ilan Ramon boarded the Space Shuttle Columbia, he made history as the first Israeli astronaut and a member of the most diverse crew in shuttle history. Film Screening and Q&A with the Director Dan Cohen. More info HERE. $10 Admission per person | $5 for YIVO/CJH members, seniors, students. Purchase tickets on SmartTix.com or call 212-868-4444.

Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street, NYC (between 5th & 6th Avenues)

*** Stay tuned for future event postings! ***