A farewell event is being held Thursday morning in Yitzhar, with the participation of all the yeshivas and other educational institutions, to mark the start of the four-month administrative exile imposed on Pikar for hosting hilltop youth at his home.
The event joins a wide-scale protest activity that took place recently, which culminated yesterday in the announcement of the Yitzhar secretariat to the Israel Defense Forces that any IDF contact with the Samarian Jewish community (except for ongoing security activity) will now be done only through Pikar.