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The city of Efrat.
Living In Efrat • •
A Challenge Being Met
ROBERT J. LEVY
Special to The Jewish News
S
cience is never cut and
dry. Officially, I was
traveling to Israel as
an investigator on an Israel-
United States Binational
Science Foundation Grant to
meet my Israeli counterpart,
Dr. Gershon Golomb of
Jerusalem's Hebrew Univer-
sity. However, Golomb, an old
and dear friend who was a
postdoctoral fellow in my
research laboratory in
Boston, also invited me to
stay in his home in Efrat.
Efrat is one of the six villages
of Gush Etzion in Judea, a
settlement in the occupied
territories.
Long before I departed for
Israel, my plans provoked a
number of comments which I
think revealed many of the
emotions American and
Israeli Jews have about the
intifada. An Israeli co-worker
of mine said Efrat was very
dangerous and she would
never visit the place herself.
A Jewish leader in our Ann
Arbor community pointedly
said that he would never, "in
principle," visit Efrat or any
settlement in the occupied
territories. Another friend
commented, "So, your col-
league in Israel is a col-
onialist!"
When Golomb was in the
U.S., he once sparked a con-
troversy by saying he saw no
need to visit Chicago, since he
had already visited Boston,
and "all big cities, after all,
were supposed to be the
same." The American at-
titude about the occupied ter-
ritories is similar in that the
settlements are stereotypical-
ly seen as dangerous and
violent frontier outposts. Rab-
bi Sholom Riskin of Efrat told
Robert J Levy is associate
proessor of pediatrics at the
University of Michigan.
me that he has become very
frustrated by this misconcep-
tion, and during a recent visit
to the States began his lec-
ture by saying, "Good morn-
ing, I'm Shlomo Riskin, the
gun-brandishing Rabbi from
Gush Etzion."
Efrat is situated on one of
several Judean hills which
make up Gush Etzion. The
Gush was originally purchas-
ed from Arab landowners by
Jewish immigrants in 1927,
"These days it is
fair to say that the
residents do not
consider Gush
Etzion open to
negotiations."
but during the Arab riots of
1929, many of the settlers
were attacked, killed and the
remainder fled. In 1936, a
core of the original settlers
and others returned, and
reestablished their communi-
ty, only to be attacked again
in 1939 by armed Arab bands
forcing the abandonment of
Gush Etzion. In 1943, Jews
again returned, and the com-
munity thrived until shortly
before the War for In-
dependence in 1948. When
Gush Etzion fell a third time
— its defenders massacred,
and the survivors remaining
together afterwards in
Jerusalem. Each year bet-
ween 1948 and 1967, the
Gush Etzion settlers would
celebrate Yom Ha'atzma'ut by
traveling to a hill south of
Jerusalem, from which they
could see their former homes.
After the 1967 war, Gush Et-
zion was resettled by the
children and grandchildren of
the original Halutzim. These
days, it is fair to say that the
residents do not consider
Gush Etzion open to
negotiations.
An Israeli physicial train-
ing in Ann Arbor these past