The male relatives of Binyamin Ze\'ev and Talia Kahane, who left six children of age 10 and under, are sitting shiva (the ritual mourning period) in a tent outside the Prime Minister\'s residence in Jerusalem. The women are in the family\'s home in Tapuach.
Across from the Prime Minister\'s Office in Jerusalem, the family of Sarah Lisha - the mother of five from N\'vei Tzuf who was murdered by Palestinian terrorists in November - protested with a sit-in this morning, holding signs reading, \"No more orphans!\"
Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami said this morning that even if no agreement is reached with the Palestinians, some Jewish towns in Yesha will have to be uprooted. \"There will be no other way to implement the unilateral separation,\" he explained. Ben-Ami emphasized, however, that this is only his personal opinion. Yesha Council head Benny Kashriel said the opposite yesterday: \"Arafat will never agree to forego the entry of Arab refugees into Israel, such that there will be no agreement - which means that no Yesha communities need be uprooted.\"
Prime Minister Ehud Barak, praising the courageous stand of the residents of Yesha today, called upon them to maintain “restraint and self-control.” He said, “Within a short time we will know if we are on the way to an arrangement, or to a Palestinian answer whose implication is that there will be no meeting [of the minds]… In any event, we will have to separate from the Palestinians.”
Across from the Prime Minister\'s Office in Jerusalem, the family of Sarah Lisha - the mother of five from N\'vei Tzuf who was murdered by Palestinian terrorists in November - protested with a sit-in this morning, holding signs reading, \"No more orphans!\"
Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami said this morning that even if no agreement is reached with the Palestinians, some Jewish towns in Yesha will have to be uprooted. \"There will be no other way to implement the unilateral separation,\" he explained. Ben-Ami emphasized, however, that this is only his personal opinion. Yesha Council head Benny Kashriel said the opposite yesterday: \"Arafat will never agree to forego the entry of Arab refugees into Israel, such that there will be no agreement - which means that no Yesha communities need be uprooted.\"
Prime Minister Ehud Barak, praising the courageous stand of the residents of Yesha today, called upon them to maintain “restraint and self-control.” He said, “Within a short time we will know if we are on the way to an arrangement, or to a Palestinian answer whose implication is that there will be no meeting [of the minds]… In any event, we will have to separate from the Palestinians.”