Israel has lost one its biggest supporters with the passing away of Carl Freyer during a visit to the country .He is to be buried Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. (Israel time) at the Eretz HaChaim Cemetery, near Beit Shemesh.
National Union party chairman and Knesset Member Yaakov (Ketzaleh) Katz said of Freyer, “He and wife Sylvia dedicated a large amount of money for the sake of the Land of Israel, Torah and the People of Israel.” Founders of the movement for a Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria termed Freyer “HaTzadik,” a holy person.
He, along with his wife Sylvia, founded the annual Israel Day Concert in New York City in honor of Dr. Manfred R. Lehmann, a widely known international businessman who combined Torah scholarship with fearless activism and advocacy on the part of the Jewish people as well as his own generous philanthropy.
Freyer was a board member of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), and he was a vocal critic of concessions by the Israel government to the Palestinian Authority.
After a speech several years ago by Dore Gold, then-Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Freyer spoke out, “Bibi Netanyahu should pack his bags.”
After Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu concluded the “Wye” agreement that surrendered Israeli control of large areas of Judea and Samaria, including Hevron, to the Palestinian Authority, at that time led by Yasser Arafat, Freyer commented, “The Netanyahu administration was humiliated by Arafat and left with an Arafat-imposed 'land-for-nothing’ agreement.’”