OTHER VIEWS HALEVI from page 33 They need your help. Children should not be afraid. They should not be afraid to walk to school, ride the bus or go out and play. Children like David and Avi should be allowed to be children. But it is hard to be a child in Israel when lives are being shattered by terrorist acts. With your help, there is hope. Through your generosity, Jewish National Fund will continue to construct security roads along Israel's northern border with Lebanon, so children and their parents can travel safely to school and to work. JNF will continue building playgrounds, parks and green spaces where families can gather safely and enjoy simple pleasures. With your help, we can give children like David and Avi hope for a safer world. We can give them a chance to be children again. Over 100 years ago, JNF made a promise to be the caretaker of the land of Israel on behalf of the Jewish people. Please make your contribution today so JNF can keep that promise. In Israel, David and Avi need more than a blanket to feel secure. They need your help. To donate, call your local JNF office at 1-888-JNF-0099 or visit www.jnforg. Or mail your contribution to: JNF, Israel Forever Campaign, 42 East 69th St., New York, NY 10021 Update me on JNF activities. E-mail me at I am a ❑ 25- ❑ 50-year giver to JNF. Please send me a Certificate of Recognition. ❑ Please send me more information on JNF's critical security projects in Israel. Contributions are tax-deductible. Forestry ■ Water ■ Community Development ■ Security ■ Education ■ Research ■ Tourism & Recreation "the Best Oriental Rugs In Town For Less. finD EUERYTHInG FROM CflREERS TO CflRS Ill THE st? 10-44V 29601 Orchard Lake Road • Farmington Hills (1 block N, of 13 Mlle Rd., Reside RICO Hardware) A . DAVID ROSENMAN'S AUTO Ammk PIIIKHASEIRS NEW & USED CAR BROKER Sales • Leasing • Buying 248-851-CARS 248-851-2277 SUBSCRIBE TODA 2485393001 erupted in Palestine in 1929, 67 mem- bers of the Hebron Jewish community were murdered and the rest ordered to leave by British officials. In 1968, a group of 10 families received permission to hold a Passover seder in a Hebron hotel. They arrived but never left. Soon after, they found- ed the adjacent township of Kiryat Arba, now home to some 5,000 peo- ple. The Israeli government eventually acquiesced to the move to resettle Hebron. In 1970, David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, spoke of the importance of re-establishing a Jewish presence there. "We will be making a tremendous and terrible mistake if we do not settle Hebron — the neighbor and predeces- sor of Jerusalem — with a large and growing community of Jews, in the shortest possible time," he said. Interestingly, Ben-Gurion's remarks followed a short discourse on the histor- ical importance of Hebron to • the Jewish people — not only as the site of the Machpelah, but also as the city where David was anointed King of Israel. "Hebron, then, is the site of the establishment of the greatest kingdom that the Nation of Israel has ever known," Ben-Gurion said. Immediately after the Nov. 15 mas- sacre, several government ministers spoke of plans to expand settlement in Hebron. Israeli Housing Minister Natan Sharansky said that the government is considering expropriating land and pay- ing reparations to some 15-20 Arab homeowners in order to construct a new Jewish neighborhood of hundreds of units. Other plans call for a secure walkway to connect the Machpelah to Kiryat Arba. So why, then, must Jews remain in Hebron? Today it is illegal for Israelis to visit Rirnallah or Bethlehem or Jenin, for fear that the army might have to place its troops at risk rescuing a wayward tourist. Jews are not permitted to set foot on the Temple Mount. But Hebron, for the simple reason that Jews remain as permanent residents there, remains open to anyone wishing to visit. The bullets and grenades launched at a crowd of Sabbath observers on Nov. 15 are part of the heavy price we con- tinue to pay to maintain a link with our past. The extensive and costly security measures, which, sadly, sometimes fail us, not only protect those who venture to Hebron today, but safeguard our Jewish future as well. A people cut off from its past has no chance of building a future.