Moshe Feiglin head of the Jewish Leadership faction of the Likud party, has launched an Operation Jewish Shield campaign against the Olmert administration plans to divide the capital with the Palestinian Authority (PA). The Prime Minister has claimed that his proposal is to give up sovereignty in Arab neighborhoods that are in eastern Jerusalem but outside the separation barrier. However, his close aide Vice Prime Minister Chaim Ramon is pushing a plan to surrender most of eastern Jerusalem.
Feiglin pointed out in his weekly newsletter that the plan would force out 80 percent of the Jews living in the Old City and would turn over major yeshivas, including Ateret Cohanim, to the PA. The Ramon plan, which the Prime Minister has not opposed, also would bar access of Jews to the Mount of Olives and would expel Jews from the City of David, where dozens of houses have been bought and legally registered.
Feiglin called on the Likud party to sign a document promising not to agree to the proposed deal.