In January 1995, 19-year-old Ofrah Felix, the daughter of one of the founding couples of Elon Moreh, was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists on the highway near Nachliel. At her funeral, Ariel Sharon - then a leading MK of the opposition Likud party - said the following:
"I remember her as a little girl in the Shomron horizons, one of the flowers of this beautiful and difficult land. How can we eulogize a 19-year-old girl? A girl who is a sacrifice to concession and surrender to terrorism, to Jewish weakness, to the loss of the sense of our right to this Land, to our inability? I know that these are harsh words, but no words are too harsh when these murderous acts have become our daily fare, and when a government in Jerusalem transfers responsibility for Jewish lives to a Palestinian terrorist organization...
"And the situation is getting worse, because despite the fact that the [Oslo] agreement has failed, as could have been predicted, the government continues its efforts to give over authorities and pieces of our homeland to the war criminal Arafat.
"The government is hoping that the settlers' spirit will fall, that their faith will break, that they will want to leave. I look around me and I see the first of those who settled this mountain [area]. I know them for more than 20 years, and I know: Their spirit will not fall, and their faith will not break. Governments will fall and will arise, but the settlers will remain here forever, and will continue to build beautiful communities...
"I see the next generation, the generation of Ofrah, and I see that they are no less [strong] than their parents! There is a continuance! They lead in the settlement enterprise, they lead in the army, they lead in love of the Land and in self-sacrifice! For them, Zionism is not yet over, and they still have a long way to go. For them, the Shomron hills, the mountains of Judea, and the sands of Katif and Netzarim, are not just a historic right, but also a true home." (Quoted by Haggai Huberman)
"I remember her as a little girl in the Shomron horizons, one of the flowers of this beautiful and difficult land. How can we eulogize a 19-year-old girl? A girl who is a sacrifice to concession and surrender to terrorism, to Jewish weakness, to the loss of the sense of our right to this Land, to our inability? I know that these are harsh words, but no words are too harsh when these murderous acts have become our daily fare, and when a government in Jerusalem transfers responsibility for Jewish lives to a Palestinian terrorist organization...
"And the situation is getting worse, because despite the fact that the [Oslo] agreement has failed, as could have been predicted, the government continues its efforts to give over authorities and pieces of our homeland to the war criminal Arafat.
"The government is hoping that the settlers' spirit will fall, that their faith will break, that they will want to leave. I look around me and I see the first of those who settled this mountain [area]. I know them for more than 20 years, and I know: Their spirit will not fall, and their faith will not break. Governments will fall and will arise, but the settlers will remain here forever, and will continue to build beautiful communities...
"I see the next generation, the generation of Ofrah, and I see that they are no less [strong] than their parents! There is a continuance! They lead in the settlement enterprise, they lead in the army, they lead in love of the Land and in self-sacrifice! For them, Zionism is not yet over, and they still have a long way to go. For them, the Shomron hills, the mountains of Judea, and the sands of Katif and Netzarim, are not just a historic right, but also a true home." (Quoted by Haggai Huberman)