Yibaneh Camp
Yibaneh CampRivkah Rybak

Sixty youth are literally putting “facts on the ground” for a "Netzer” agricultural camp that also is aimed at keeping the land in Jewish hands. The goal is to plant olive trees and vineyards in the Gush Etzion area and prevent Arabs and anarchists from continuing an escalating takeover of government land in Judea and Samaria.

The battle for the Land of Israel has been quietly raging since the Oslo Accords, after which government policy has allowed Arabs and leftist supporters to take over state land, much of which had been planted by Jewish farmers.

International anti-Israel groups have been using humanitarian aid money to support Arabs who work and live on the land that had been idle for decades.

The Netzer project at the community of Elazar, located across the road from Efrat in Gush Etzion and south of Jerusalem, began after the government expelled all Jewish residents from Gush Katif, northern Gaza and parts of northern Samaria in 2005. The government and activists have fought a see-saw battle in which police destroy Spartan structures built by the nationalists, who have rebuilt them eight times.

Since the founding of the YIBANEH fund for building and expanding in the hills of Judea, founded by Women for Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green), nearly an acre of olive trees and grape vines has been planted.

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