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PAGE 12 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE January 15, 1982
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Settlement on West Bank
strives for good relations
SpeaaJ to The Southern Israelite
Intensive Jewish settlement of
West Bank areas lying in the
vicinity of Jerusalem is absolutely
necessary to ensure continued
Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem
itself, a prominent Israeli
academician said this past
weekend in Atlanta.
Dr. Moshe Bar-Asher,
chairman of the Department of
Hebrew Languages at Hebrew
University, visited the city to gain
moral support for the new West
Bank settlement he heads, known
as Pesagot. At several engagements
in Atlanta over the weekend, Bar-
Asher addressed more than 250
persons.
“Sooner than we think,” Bar-
Asher explained, “demands will be
made upon Israel by the United
States and others concerning the
city of Jerusalem.” A Jewish
presence of about 100,000 persons
in the city’s outskirts within the
next three or four years will
solidify Israeli hold over
Jerusalem and the region
surrounding it, he said.
Pesagot, Bar-Asher’s settlement,
was established in August 1981,
when five families moved there
from Jerusalem. Although
settlement of Pesagot was halted
temporarily because of land
disputes with Arabs living in the
Judean hills, the Israeli Supreme
Court on Dec. 2,1981, resolved the
issues and gave Pesagot the green
light. As a result of that decision,
Bar-Asher said, approximately 50
families will take up residence in
Pesagot within the next few weeks.
Bar-Asher’s settlement is
northeast of Jerusalem, only ten
kilometers from Mount Scopus on
a direct path. The Arab towns of
Al-Bira and Ramallah are within
several kilometers from the
settlement. “We are trying to build
a good relationship with our Arab
neighbors,” said Bar-Asher, who is
fluent in several dialects of Arabic.
The Pesagot settlers have invited
area Arabs to settlement functions
and have attempted to involve the
Arabs in joint business ventures.
The response, however, has been
lukewarm, according to Bar-
Asher. West Bank Arabs who
befriend settlers are endangered by
the radical anti-Israel elements. In
particular, Bar-Asher explained,
“We have had a lot of trouble with
the mayor of Ramallah because he
is a member of the leadership of the
Palestine Liberation Organization.”
The Israeli government under
Prime Minister Mcnachem Begin
has taken an active role in fostering
Jewish settlement in the West
Bank, which is commonly referred
to in Israel as Judea and Samaria.
The territory was Jordanian from
1948 until 1967, when it was
captured by Israel in the Six Day
War.
Pesagot, Bar-Asher said, is fully
supported by the government. The
settlers have met with Defense
Minister Ariel Sharon and other
officials and will receive temporary
housing units and mortgage
assistance for permanent homes
from the government.
About 15 of the 100 settlements
in Judea and Samaria are affiliated
with the highly publicized Gush
Emunim (Block of the Faithful)
movement but Bar-Asher’s
settlement is not. He appreciates
the contribution that members of
Gush Emunim have made to the
settlement movement, Bar-Asher
said, but disapproves of some of
their methods such as settling in
the midst of an Arab city.
While in Atlanta, Bar-Asher
expressed high hopes for his
settlement. The settlers have
already established a school to
train dayanim (religious judges),
and hope to open an elementary
school in the coming year. There
are also plans on the drawing
board, Bar-Asher said, to develop
a one-year educational program
for college-age youngsters that will
be open to students from the
Diaspora.
Pesagot, meaning “peaks” in
Hebrew, is the highest point in the
region immediately northeast of
Jerusalem. The settlement, which
has an excellent view of the
Jerusalem skyline, rises to a point
906 meters above sea level. The
territory in which Pesagot is
located was inhabited in biblical
days by the tribe of Menasheh.
Bar-Asher was invited to speak
here by an Atlantan who recently
visited the settlement. Any reader
interested in learning more about
Pesagot or in participating in the
formation of a link between
Pesagot and Atlanta is invited to
send his name and address to:
Yedidei (Friends of) Pesagot P.O.
Box 1413, Atlanta, Georgia 30301.
Kronish to speak
at Bonds dinner
Dr. Leon Kronish, national
campaign chairman and chairman
of the National Rabbinic Cabinet
of the Israel Bond Organization,
will be the guest speaker at Israel
Bonds Canal Founders and Prime
Minister’s Club dinner on Jan. 14
at the home of Dr. and Mrs.
Marvin C. Goldstein.
One of America’s most
distinguished rabbis. Rabbi
Kronish provides leadership at the
national level as senior vice
president of the American Jewish
Congress and national chairman
of the board of the America Israel
Histadrut Foundation.
He is the founder and immediate
past chairman of the Israel
Commission of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis
(CCAR) and has served on the
board of governors of the Hebrew
Union Coliege-Jewish Institute of
Religion (HUC-J1R). He is also a
past president of the HUC-J1R
Alumni Association.
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Kronish
For more than a quarter of a
century the spiritual leader of
Temple Beth Sholom in Miami
Beach, Rabbi Kronish is past
president of the Rabbinical
Association of Greater Miami,
former chairman of the Greater
Miami Israel Bond Committee,
and former associate chairman of
the Greater Miami Jewish
Federation.
A graduate of Brooklyn College
in New York City, Rabbi Kronish
prepared for the rabbinate and was
ordained at the Jewish Institute of
Religion. He was awarded the
doctor of divinity degree by the
HUC-J1R in June 1967. Rabbi
Kronish has visited Israel in behalf
of the United Jewish Appeal and
Israel Bonds.