Michael Nitzan, a resident of Moshav Gadid, can be seen in the above picture affixing the new sign.
Corporal Bieber, who immigrated with his family from Passaic, New Jersey nine years ago, became an overnight symbol of spontaneous refusal after he emotionally declared the army's actions in Shirat HaYam unjust. He had been assigned to physically remove protesters from an area surrounding homes being refurbished on the Gush Katif seashore for new residents to move into. "Jews are hitting Jews here," Bieber told the television cameras as he was led to a waiting army jeep and taken into custody. "This is not right. This is not justice."
According to witnesses, although Bieber's refusal was the most public, fellow soldiers in his combat engineer unit shared his sentiments with regard to the task given to them. In fact, twelve of his comrades informed their commander that very evening of the fact that they refuse to take part in any future operations connected with the Disengagement Plan.
Bieber, who graced the front pages of Israel's newspapers the following day and opened every channel's nightly newscast, was to be made an example of by the IDF, in order to discourage the rising wave of refusals. He was refused a trial before a military tribunal and sentenced by an area commander to 56 days in army jail.
Last week, his 56 day sentence was cut in half due to flaws in the legal procedures preceding his speedy sentencing. Soon after, a second hearing was held and the IDF commander of the Gaza region added 28 days back to his sentence.
Corporal Bieber, who immigrated with his family from Passaic, New Jersey nine years ago, became an overnight symbol of spontaneous refusal after he emotionally declared the army's actions in Shirat HaYam unjust. He had been assigned to physically remove protesters from an area surrounding homes being refurbished on the Gush Katif seashore for new residents to move into. "Jews are hitting Jews here," Bieber told the television cameras as he was led to a waiting army jeep and taken into custody. "This is not right. This is not justice."
According to witnesses, although Bieber's refusal was the most public, fellow soldiers in his combat engineer unit shared his sentiments with regard to the task given to them. In fact, twelve of his comrades informed their commander that very evening of the fact that they refuse to take part in any future operations connected with the Disengagement Plan.
Bieber, who graced the front pages of Israel's newspapers the following day and opened every channel's nightly newscast, was to be made an example of by the IDF, in order to discourage the rising wave of refusals. He was refused a trial before a military tribunal and sentenced by an area commander to 56 days in army jail.
Last week, his 56 day sentence was cut in half due to flaws in the legal procedures preceding his speedy sentencing. Soon after, a second hearing was held and the IDF commander of the Gaza region added 28 days back to his sentence.