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7/30
1999

22 Detroit Jewish News

(248) 356-6000

its creed, began spreading across
Samaria in 1974.
Benny Katsover, head of one of the
Elon Moreh, Israel
original 17 families of Elon Moreh, was
rime Minister Ehud Barak
among the first West Bank settlers.
hasn't revealed any maps of
Standing on his balcony, he points out
the topography in the near distance —
which West Bank Jewish set-
the Israel Defense Forces antenna on top
tlements he'll keep or uproot,
of that hill, the extension of the settle-
but it's clear enough that the settlement
here is one likely to go if the peace
ment of Itamar on another hill, and Har
Eval, the hill where archeologists discov-
deals the Israeli leader is pushing come
to fruition.
ered the altar built by the Israelites cited
in the Book of
About 1,200
people here live
With the Palestinian-controlled city of Joshua.
Elon Moreh
deep in the heart of
Bethlehem in the background, a land
surveyor marks plots at Har Homa in
came about back
Samaria, the biblical
Jerusalem earlier this year. Israel once
when Israeli gov-,
name for the West
wanted to build 6,000 homes there for
Bank's northern
ernments were
half. It's about three Jewish settlers, but the new government is keen to insert a
blocking additional West Bank expansion. "Jewish presence ),
miles northeast of
in the middle of
Nablus, overlooking
masses of Palestinians, Katsover says,
the Palestinian city from atop a high
staking out the high ground above
hill. The atmosphere is peaceful, with
them and breaking up their continuity..
birds chirping in the pine trees that
With a few other small settle-
scent the cool air.
ments nearby, about 6,000 Jews call
But Elon Moreh's Jewish residents
this area home.
are not resting quite so easily these
"People who are against us like to
days. "If Barak wants to try to uproot
say that for every Jew in this area, there
settlements, it's natural that he would
are about 100 Palestinians," Katsover
try to start here, in the middle of
says. "What they don't realize is that
Samaria," said Amichai Remer, chair-
the spirit that built these settlements is
man of Elon Moreh's executive board.
the same spirit that filled the public
Elon Moreh, founded in 1980, is
squares in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv with
one of the original settlements found-
hundreds of thousands of protesters."
ed by Gush Emunim (Bloc of the
And despite Barak's string of meet-
Faithful), the primarily religious group
ings with U.S. and Arab leaders, in
that, viewing West Bank settlement as

LARRY DERFNER
Israel Correspondent

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