Yossi Dagan, head of the Samaria Regional Council, said of Avraham Mintz, who has just passed away, "He was a pillar of fire who went before the camp."
Mintz was 90 years old, and one of the original founders of the Torah community in Elon Moreh and one of the first members of "Gush Emunim."
Also eulogizing Mintz was Rabbi Rafi Peretz, who said, "Avraham Mintz was a man of Torah and avodah [labor] in the fullest sense, one of the great settlers and pioneers."