Tel Romeida, a neighborhood in Hevron with much Jewish-owned land, is the site of a new Jewish presence today. Residents constructed a tent outpost there this morning, adjacent to lots in which Arabs built illegal structures. One of the new residents told an Arutz-7 correspondent that they took advantage of the fact that the policemen were taken to Yitzhar and that there was no one to stop them.
Jews have lived in caravans in Tel Romeida (Admot Yeshai) since 1984; Rabbi Shlomo Raanan, grandson of the famed Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook, was murdered in his home five years ago when a terrorist climbed in through the window. The families began building their permanent homes last September, but this was stopped by court order five months later - at the behest of archaeologists and Peace Now leader Mossi Raz. They claimed that the construction was causing damage to antiquities at the site, even though Dr. Yitzhak Magen, responsible for archeological excavations in Yesha, had previously approved the plans.
Two other groups started to rebuild other evacuated outposts near Kiryat Arba, one on Antenna Hill, and the other on Hilltop 26. The latter was the home of the Ozeri family, whose father/husband Netanel was murdered by terrorists last year; even then, the surviving widow and five orphans continued to live on the isolated hilltop, until the army uprooted them in the middle of the night three months ago.