At 5 PM, rallies will be held at intersections outside Ofakim, Haifa, Raanana, and Shilat. Rallies are also scheduled at that time at the Bar-Ilan Junction, Pisgat Ze'ev in Jerusalem, and the Jerusalem city entrance.
Another protest will be held at 5:30 outside IDF Samaria Headquarters.
The protestors will rally under the theme, "I'm Frustrated! The Terrorists are Building - While Jewish Homes are Being Destroyed!"
Susie Dym, spokesperson for the Cities of Israel grassroots organization, said,
"Olmert and Mofaz are trying to keep the settlers busy, so that they won't have time to win over the voters' hearts.
"Olmert knows that if the residents weren't so busy trying to defend their homes, they would go out in a national face-to-face campaign, and grab from under his nose all the Kadima voters and bring them all back to the right-wing camp - just like they did in one month of hard work before the Likud referendum.
"At that time [May 2004], they came from behind and won the referendum by a large margin, to the astonishment of Olmert and Sharon and their people."
A "protest from home" campaign is also underway. Home-bound objectors to the Amona destruction have been asked to phone or fax the following officials and register their opinions:
Police Chief Karadi - 02 5308100 fax 02 530 8118
President Moshe Katzav - phone: 02 6707211, fax 02 5671314
State Comptroller's Office - 02 666 5000, fax 02 666 5204
PM's Spokesman - 02 5666920 fax 02 566 9245
Olmert's personal spokesman - 02 6662301 fax 02 666 4400
Chief Rabbi Metzger 02 5377872 Chief Rabbi Amar 02 5371305
As if the security forces did not have their hands full already, police in Jerusalem found themselves occupied this afternoon with hundreds of hareidi-religious Jews. The latter blocked the central Shmuel HaNavi intersection in the northern area of the capital, expressing their rage over an autopsy perpetrated upon the body of a hareidi woman in the north. They burned large garbage bins and threw rocks.
See related stories on Amona on this site.
Another protest will be held at 5:30 outside IDF Samaria Headquarters.
The protestors will rally under the theme, "I'm Frustrated! The Terrorists are Building - While Jewish Homes are Being Destroyed!"
Susie Dym, spokesperson for the Cities of Israel grassroots organization, said,
"Olmert and Mofaz are trying to keep the settlers busy, so that they won't have time to win over the voters' hearts.
"Olmert knows that if the residents weren't so busy trying to defend their homes, they would go out in a national face-to-face campaign, and grab from under his nose all the Kadima voters and bring them all back to the right-wing camp - just like they did in one month of hard work before the Likud referendum.
"At that time [May 2004], they came from behind and won the referendum by a large margin, to the astonishment of Olmert and Sharon and their people."
A "protest from home" campaign is also underway. Home-bound objectors to the Amona destruction have been asked to phone or fax the following officials and register their opinions:
Police Chief Karadi - 02 5308100 fax 02 530 8118
President Moshe Katzav - phone: 02 6707211, fax 02 5671314
State Comptroller's Office - 02 666 5000, fax 02 666 5204
PM's Spokesman - 02 5666920 fax 02 566 9245
Olmert's personal spokesman - 02 6662301 fax 02 666 4400
Chief Rabbi Metzger 02 5377872 Chief Rabbi Amar 02 5371305
As if the security forces did not have their hands full already, police in Jerusalem found themselves occupied this afternoon with hundreds of hareidi-religious Jews. The latter blocked the central Shmuel HaNavi intersection in the northern area of the capital, expressing their rage over an autopsy perpetrated upon the body of a hareidi woman in the north. They burned large garbage bins and threw rocks.
See related stories on Amona on this site.