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Last update - 06:57 18/12/2003
Rabbis issue prohibition against evacuating settlements
By Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and The Associated Press

The rabbinical council representing the West Bank and Gaza Strip issued a public statement Wednesday saying the government must not evacuate settlements and outposts.

"The government is forbidden by a total religious prohibition to evacuate any outpost or settlement, and has no right to give away parts of the land of Israel to strangers, and anything done toward this aim is void," said the statement from the Yesha rabbinical council, named for the Hebrew acronym for the territories.

The ruling, which comes ahead of the anticipated evacuation of the West Bank outpost of Migron, is not legally binding, but is likely to be respected by many Orthodox Jews.

Meanwhile, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz cancelled a meeting with National Religious Party Ministers Effi Eitam and Zevulun Orlev to discuss the evacuation of outposts, Israel Radio reported Wednesday night.

Associates of Eitam, the party chairman, told the radio they were angry with Orlev, who they said leaked news of the meeting to the press. By doing so, they said, he had prevented a quiet resolution of the conflict over the anticipated evacuations.

Members of the Yesha rabbinical council, who met Wednesday evening at Migron, said thousands of yeshiva students will come to the outpost to try and keep Israel Defense Forces troops from evacuating it.

The rabbis said the protesters must refrain from violence against the soldiers and police officers involved in the evacuation.

Among the rabbis who showed up Wednesday were Rabbi Avraham Shapiro, head of the Merkaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem, and Rabbi Chaim Drukman, who is affiliated with the B'nai Akiva religious youth movement, Channel Two reported.

Migron is the largest of all the outposts, Yehoshua Mor-Yosef, a spokesman for the Yesha Council of settlements, said last week. "It began like all the outposts: an antenna with a guard. Later, the guard brought his friends," he said.

Some 45 families now live in Migron, which is located in the Judean desert, about 20 minutes from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze'ev.

Also Wednesday, settlers rebuilt two buildings that had been removed from the Havat Hashaked outpost in the West Bank earlier this week.

The Yesha Council on Tuesday marked the beginning of its struggle against outpost evacuations and against a plan for unilateral withdrawal that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is expected to present.

The council members met at Migron, where eight caravans and a large tent have been set up in anticipation of people arriving to protest the evacuation. The council said Tuesday it expected to recruit 5,000 people to help Migron residents remain at the outpost.

In the next few days, settler protest activity will be centered at Migron as a symbol of the settler's struggle.

Rabbi Mordecai Eliyahu - one of the spiritual leaders of the NRP, which is closely associated with the settler movement - told settler leader Pinchas Wallerstein this week that he instructed NRP Knesset members and ministers to resign their posts if the government decides to evacuate a settlement or outpost.

Eliyahu called on the public to go to places due to be evacuated in an attempt to prevent any evacuation from taking place.



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