A daughter was born, Thursday evening, to Akiva Hacohen of the Samarian Jewish community of Yitzhar, who is in jail, awaiting trial on charges he supplied information on Israeli troops during recent evictions at Jewish outpost communities in Judea and Samaria, according to the Tatzpit news agency. The girl is his second daughter, to go along with three sons.
Hacohen is one of 13 people banished from Yitzhar under an administrative order, about two months ago. According to a statement released by sources in Yitzhar, "The insistenceofthe prosecutionto prevent Hacohen's conditional release after repeated petitions,isa new recordof insensitivity ofthe systemagainstHacohen andhis family.We are confidentthat the daughterbornunder these conditions,will continuethe glory oftheway of her parents' devotion for theland ofIsrael."