מכתב שכתב בני אביסף כתב השבוע לכל אלו שעברו דרך הבית היהודי באום ביץ בארבע חודשים בעונת התתיירות החורף של המטיילים מהארץ הקדושה
נראה לי שהוא ממש ביטא מה שהרבה מאיתנו חשיםמאז הגירוש --הגיע הזמן למצוא איך עם ישראל מתקשרים כולם עם כולם
חברים מתוקים
מה שלום כולכם
מחר בערב יחול תשעה באב היום בו נחרב בית המקדש, "על שנאת חינם נחרב בית המקדש".פעם היום הזה היה סתם יום בשבילי.. לא רלוונטי, כבד, רק שיעבור....
עד לפני חמש שנים, כאשר נאלצתי יחד עם משפחתי לעזוב את הבית שבו נולדתי וגדלתי 25 שנה, בגוש קטיף.
למרבה הפלא היום בו עזבנו היה כמעט בתשעה באב...
מוזר, אך לא הפרידה הכואבת מהבית היא שכאבה לי כל כך, אלא המרחק שהרגשתי, הניתוק, איך לא הצלחתי לגרום לאחים שלי,לחברים לנשק,לבני עמי,
להקשיב להרגיש להבין.... בכלל לא היה חשוב שנסכים, היה חשוב שנדבר,היה חשוב שנכאב יחד, יחד..
השנה זכיתי לראות שהדברים יכולים להראות אחרת, רחוק מהסטיגמות ומהדעות הקדומות, בבית בוץ בתוך ג'ונגל מעל חוף קסום בהודו הרחוקה סביב שולחן שבת עמוס ביהודים כל כך שונים אך כל כך קרובים.
זכיתי כמעט לראשונה בחיי להקשיב באמת, לדבר באמת, לראות פנימיות נקיה מחיצוניות, להרגיש אהוב ואוהב,ולהרגיש שייך למשהו גדול.
אומרים שיום יבוא ותשעה באב יהפוך ליום שמח, מתי זה יקרה? כשיבנה בית המקדש, "באהבת חינם יבנה המקדש" ביום בו לא נצטרך לנסוע להודו כדי להקשיב כדי לאהוב כדי להיות נאהבים .
סביב שולחן של יום חול במרכז תל אביב או אולי בירושלים נשב יחד אנשים שונים אך כל כך קרובים ונקשיב אחד לשני.....
ואם זה עדיין נראה רחוק סימן שבנתיים יש למה לכסוף יש למה להתגעגע ויש למה לשאוף...
מדי שנה בליל תשעה באב אני נוהג לשבת על מרפסת קסומה שצופה לכותל ולהר הבית ופשוט להתגעגע, לימים טובים יותר, שעוד יבואו, כך למדתי בגן ובבית הספר, בישיבה, ובהודו הרחוקה.....
בשורות טובות
אוהבים ומתגעגעים אבי ותרצה, הבית היהודי אומביץ
Monday, July 19, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Netzer Hazani and The Marmara Flotilla
Believe it or not Netzer Hazani and Mavi Marmara are integrally connected!
Thanks again dear friends for having the patience to listen to my real life grandma stories for so many years now,
Rambam, in 'The Guide to the Perplexed', clearly brings a rule of thumb based on a sentence in parshat Shmot.
He says compassion towards the wicked is cruelty to all beings.
Other guidelines from the Torah teach us to be compassionate to the widows and downtrodden . We also are taught throughout the Tanach via mesora about the nature of Esau and Yishmael and their descendents --and how to relate to them
There is moral clarity for all who focus on Torah values.
Our courage to act according to the Torah moral guidelines is dependent directly on our faith in G-d.
If we are not focused on this we begin to fear, what will the media say? what wiil the other countries say? what will they do to us next if...?
evtach velo efchad ki ozi vezimrat yah, and we , all of the people of Israel who accept this as the light that will lead our ship to safe port, will proceed united under this one flag of true morality.
Accepting the basic morality of Torah values must be the foundations for our constructive actions ---otherwise they can only be destructive and not constructive as we have seen this week and too often in the last ten years.
Please read the below -- true grandma story of our real life saga.
Netzer Hazani and the Mavi Marmara
When the news of the IDF seal marine incident on the flotilla hit the news everyone in our town was in touch with the mothers in our community whose sons were most likely to be part of this operation --we realized that at least one Mom here had spent several hair graying hours from the time she knew her son was part of this team till she knew he was in one piece.
This young man had been very active in the moral and ethical struggle of our youth to save their homes, their parents parnassa and their little piece of land of Israel . I saw him attacked by yassamnikim as he just stood in the wrong place --and he was almost immediately released because the police at the Kissufum checkpoint police station all knew his mom who was always first on the scene of terrorist injuries to try and save lives. She was the head nurse of our local medical emergecy team .
The expulsion and destruction left this young man very disappointed but with his value system and faith in people and land of Israel intact, he decided to vent his desire to do something constuctive to better the country by joining one of the best and most challenging units of the army - the navy seals, or as we call them in Israel the Shayetet. He succeeded and even received a special award as officer for excellence .
Our brave navy seal officer, who wanted to make our country and the world a better more moral place, was sent to have compassion on the cruel !!!
According to Maimonides this is equivalent to being sent to act cruely to all beings --the most immoral stance one can take!
Our government basically said to these brave IDF boys -----
"Don't take over a load of cruel terrorists and supporters of terror and encouragers of cruel terror with the force and capabilities you have in order not to endanger yourselves and others ---because the many people who hate us are looking at us, so best we show compassion to these cruel people!. 'What will Yishmael and Esau say if we do what we know how to do and act with strength to those who respect strength and step all over us when we are weak? If we are compassionate to these cruel people --perhaps they will then act compassionately to us."
It is time now more than ever that we stop looking at what is wrong with what the enemy is doing ---they are being themselves !!
I have more Grandma stories on this issue, but I will leave them for another time. I just want to point out that it is time for Am Yisrael to decide that the time has come to be ourselves and for us to live by our values and morality.
I admit it is easy to get depressed from all this --but if we keep focusing on our Jewish values, our faith and our history we know that
the end will be for the good
each and every one of us now has the obligation to work harder ,to do more to add more light ,more chessed , more morality to our country and to our people .
We must continue to focus --- The sadness ,the frustration the lack of morality will otherwise easily make all seem black --let's leave room for Hashem and his mercy and compassion on us. Meanwhile let us, as well, act with mercy and compassion.
I pray that Am Israel will unite in these so difficult days under the flag of Jewish morality .
I pray that we will have compassion according to our Jewish guidelines and will not ever again have compassion on the cruel.
Our wonderful children who are willing to act with such mesirut nefesh, with faith , without fear knowing as David did, that our courage and backbone can only come when focusing on our moral guidelines, on G-d's way of acting towards us.
Take Part in Our Struggle for Justice and Morality
I welcome you to be part of my struggle for justice and morality that we are trying to be successful with every day for the last five years.
15,000 shekels ($4,000 dollars ) is needed to send 12 -18 yr old girls in our community for trauma counseling. Five years after the trauma of expulsion they continue to face new crises that need attention . The boys group was funded by minhelet tnufa (Tnufa Commision ) and was evaluated by the social workers and therapists who believe it has been extremely successful for them. Now we want to have the funds to set up the same program for the girls.
We need funds to subsidize community needs that the taxes and government funding do not cover. We have no funding yet whatsoever for any playgrounds, though three have been planned down to the last detail, but no funding to make them happen.
Remember that your small limited act to ensure morality and justice when combined with others in Am Israel can do amazing things= $18 x 1000 = $18,000 dollars,18 shekel X 1000 is 18,000 shekel etc.
$1800 x 100= $180,000 would help us complete funds needed for the ezrat nashim (women's section in the synagogue) that in GK was furnished in memory of Etti Pachima who was mother of four, murdered by cruel Arab terrorists. This women's section of our synaogue must be built anew no less beautiful than it was in Netzer Hazani in Gush Katif . Etti Pachima was a beautiful person . Her husband who was disabled as well by an Arab cruel terrorist and family are part of our community tody as well.
How much justice would be done, how much compassion would be seen if every person who received this email does one small act --and through this connects to many other good Jews to be kind and compassionate and make a difference.
This is not about our house ,our new town or our community ---this is about your struggle and my struggle for justice and for compassion --- it is about you and me being Jews that don't look what everyone thinks and says --but about acting like Jews -according to our Jewish moral values.
As we saw this week, if we don't insist on this morality without fear, we find our brave sons being sent to be kind to the cruel!! Just saying those words cause me such pain -- can you imagine how the IDF soldiers felt ?
It would be encouraging if you mail in something tiny or gigantic according to what you can and want ,but something -- just so we know you are still there and care. Anyone can also donate in dollars online by clicking here. If you would like to mail in a shekel or dollar check see the mailing details on the bottom of this page.
Last time email to thousands brought two direct acts of caring ;( . where are you Am Yisrael?
Dearest friends and family, as always, I invite you to click here to see this three minute clip and share with us our dreams for the future as we set our new challenges.
Thanks for caring, caring gives strength,anita
http://www.netzerhazani.org/main.php?s=3&p=52
Believe it or not Netzer Hazani and Mavi Marmara are integrally connected!
Thanks again dear friends for having the patience to listen to my real life grandma stories for so many years now,
Rambam, in 'The Guide to the Perplexed', clearly brings a rule of thumb based on a sentence in parshat Shmot.
He says compassion towards the wicked is cruelty to all beings.
Other guidelines from the Torah teach us to be compassionate to the widows and downtrodden . We also are taught throughout the Tanach via mesora about the nature of Esau and Yishmael and their descendents --and how to relate to them
There is moral clarity for all who focus on Torah values.
Our courage to act according to the Torah moral guidelines is dependent directly on our faith in G-d.
If we are not focused on this we begin to fear, what will the media say? what wiil the other countries say? what will they do to us next if...?
evtach velo efchad ki ozi vezimrat yah, and we , all of the people of Israel who accept this as the light that will lead our ship to safe port, will proceed united under this one flag of true morality.
Accepting the basic morality of Torah values must be the foundations for our constructive actions ---otherwise they can only be destructive and not constructive as we have seen this week and too often in the last ten years.
Please read the below -- true grandma story of our real life saga.
Netzer Hazani and the Mavi Marmara
When the news of the IDF seal marine incident on the flotilla hit the news everyone in our town was in touch with the mothers in our community whose sons were most likely to be part of this operation --we realized that at least one Mom here had spent several hair graying hours from the time she knew her son was part of this team till she knew he was in one piece.
This young man had been very active in the moral and ethical struggle of our youth to save their homes, their parents parnassa and their little piece of land of Israel . I saw him attacked by yassamnikim as he just stood in the wrong place --and he was almost immediately released because the police at the Kissufum checkpoint police station all knew his mom who was always first on the scene of terrorist injuries to try and save lives. She was the head nurse of our local medical emergecy team .
The expulsion and destruction left this young man very disappointed but with his value system and faith in people and land of Israel intact, he decided to vent his desire to do something constuctive to better the country by joining one of the best and most challenging units of the army - the navy seals, or as we call them in Israel the Shayetet. He succeeded and even received a special award as officer for excellence .
Our brave navy seal officer, who wanted to make our country and the world a better more moral place, was sent to have compassion on the cruel !!!
According to Maimonides this is equivalent to being sent to act cruely to all beings --the most immoral stance one can take!
Our government basically said to these brave IDF boys -----
"Don't take over a load of cruel terrorists and supporters of terror and encouragers of cruel terror with the force and capabilities you have in order not to endanger yourselves and others ---because the many people who hate us are looking at us, so best we show compassion to these cruel people!. 'What will Yishmael and Esau say if we do what we know how to do and act with strength to those who respect strength and step all over us when we are weak? If we are compassionate to these cruel people --perhaps they will then act compassionately to us."
It is time now more than ever that we stop looking at what is wrong with what the enemy is doing ---they are being themselves !!
I have more Grandma stories on this issue, but I will leave them for another time. I just want to point out that it is time for Am Yisrael to decide that the time has come to be ourselves and for us to live by our values and morality.
I admit it is easy to get depressed from all this --but if we keep focusing on our Jewish values, our faith and our history we know that
the end will be for the good
each and every one of us now has the obligation to work harder ,to do more to add more light ,more chessed , more morality to our country and to our people .
We must continue to focus --- The sadness ,the frustration the lack of morality will otherwise easily make all seem black --let's leave room for Hashem and his mercy and compassion on us. Meanwhile let us, as well, act with mercy and compassion.
I pray that Am Israel will unite in these so difficult days under the flag of Jewish morality .
I pray that we will have compassion according to our Jewish guidelines and will not ever again have compassion on the cruel.
Our wonderful children who are willing to act with such mesirut nefesh, with faith , without fear knowing as David did, that our courage and backbone can only come when focusing on our moral guidelines, on G-d's way of acting towards us.
Take Part in Our Struggle for Justice and Morality
I welcome you to be part of my struggle for justice and morality that we are trying to be successful with every day for the last five years.
15,000 shekels ($4,000 dollars ) is needed to send 12 -18 yr old girls in our community for trauma counseling. Five years after the trauma of expulsion they continue to face new crises that need attention . The boys group was funded by minhelet tnufa (Tnufa Commision ) and was evaluated by the social workers and therapists who believe it has been extremely successful for them. Now we want to have the funds to set up the same program for the girls.
We need funds to subsidize community needs that the taxes and government funding do not cover. We have no funding yet whatsoever for any playgrounds, though three have been planned down to the last detail, but no funding to make them happen.
Remember that your small limited act to ensure morality and justice when combined with others in Am Israel can do amazing things= $18 x 1000 = $18,000 dollars,18 shekel X 1000 is 18,000 shekel etc.
$1800 x 100= $180,000 would help us complete funds needed for the ezrat nashim (women's section in the synagogue) that in GK was furnished in memory of Etti Pachima who was mother of four, murdered by cruel Arab terrorists. This women's section of our synaogue must be built anew no less beautiful than it was in Netzer Hazani in Gush Katif . Etti Pachima was a beautiful person . Her husband who was disabled as well by an Arab cruel terrorist and family are part of our community tody as well.
How much justice would be done, how much compassion would be seen if every person who received this email does one small act --and through this connects to many other good Jews to be kind and compassionate and make a difference.
This is not about our house ,our new town or our community ---this is about your struggle and my struggle for justice and for compassion --- it is about you and me being Jews that don't look what everyone thinks and says --but about acting like Jews -according to our Jewish moral values.
As we saw this week, if we don't insist on this morality without fear, we find our brave sons being sent to be kind to the cruel!! Just saying those words cause me such pain -- can you imagine how the IDF soldiers felt ?
It would be encouraging if you mail in something tiny or gigantic according to what you can and want ,but something -- just so we know you are still there and care. Anyone can also donate in dollars online by clicking here. If you would like to mail in a shekel or dollar check see the mailing details on the bottom of this page.
Last time email to thousands brought two direct acts of caring ;( . where are you Am Yisrael?
Dearest friends and family, as always, I invite you to click here to see this three minute clip and share with us our dreams for the future as we set our new challenges.
Thanks for caring, caring gives strength,anita
http://www.netzerhazani.org/main.php?s=3&p=52
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Almost a year
I can't believe that it is almost a year that I have put a blog in here---I write so much in emails and forget to add all that I tell about what is happenning with our community into this blog. Several people I have met recently have convinced me that letting everyone know about what is happenning with our Gush katif community is important and that many are interested to hear first hand blogs from those that are in this dynamic process of a Gush Katif community that is striving against the odds to keep their community together towards building anew. So from now on I will ,Bli Neder ,really try to do so.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
http://wejew.com/media/2162/Gush_Katif_Refugee_Anita_Tucker/
sorry to tell you one year later since below radio interview ,after a war in which the south and not so south like us and Yavneh and yesodot and only 30 km. south of Jerusalem were under rocket attack , we are all in the same position we were last year --our plans to build a new are still not signed and bulldozers have not yet begun preparing the alternate land in Yesodot .
We still live in the stomach of the question mark mentioned in this interview! Yet our values and spirit are still intact though a bit dented and beat up --still standing vertically !(though quite a few of our friends have been buried horizontally before their time .)
Going home to build anew in Gush Katif is apparantly the more logical conclusion after this war. Please
help me come up with some sane ideas on how we can help this idea become something that will be enacted on.
http://wejew.com/media/2162/Gush_Katif_Refugee_Anita_Tucker/
sorry to tell you one year later since below radio interview ,after a war in which the south and not so south like us and Yavneh and yesodot and only 30 km. south of Jerusalem were under rocket attack , we are all in the same position we were last year --our plans to build a new are still not signed and bulldozers have not yet begun preparing the alternate land in Yesodot .
We still live in the stomach of the question mark mentioned in this interview! Yet our values and spirit are still intact though a bit dented and beat up --still standing vertically !(though quite a few of our friends have been buried horizontally before their time .)
Going home to build anew in Gush Katif is apparantly the more logical conclusion after this war. Please
help me come up with some sane ideas on how we can help this idea become something that will be enacted on.
http://wejew.com/media/2162/Gush_Katif_Refugee_Anita_Tucker/
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Shabbat with Netzer Hazani in caravilla site
Last hours have been hearing the planes and their explosions over Gaza ---it is amazing but it is so far away still the caravilla shakes slightlyShabbat we had many rockets falling in this general area but since we have no place to safe areas --there is no need to get hysterical to run to safe place ---and also the siren is from Kibbutz Ein Tzurim and more often than not we can't hear them here in the caravilla site .
In a way as crazy as it sounds, it makes you less stressed out than when you hear the siren and feel pressure to run with your kids to safe area .
I hope the people in Tel Aviv now realize they are only 20 km. from shomron and they have lots of rockets that were smuggled in there --so they better forget about disengaging shomron.
I know this may really sound crazy, but since I don't have any safe area anyway --my first reaction to hearing the shriek of the rocket and the noise of fall and explosion was --this feels like home -all i need is the sea sand and celery.
Tonight it isn't too much fun for those mothers we have here in our GK communities with a son in there fighting right now near Gush Katif from where they were thrown out and at the same time the mother is in a caravilla site with no safe area to protect her young children when rockets explode nearby.
Wish I could explain to those leftists demonstrating in Tel Aviv that if we would have not allowed the tunnels and the smuggling of weapons ,rockets etc and parts we wouldn't have to bomb them now. People who trylly want peace must not allow weapons to reach those that lack the morality to use them properly --so that we would have no need to bomb to protect our civilians and people would not have to be .
I wish I so that our government felt that they are sending our dear men into this war not only to protect us but to give us back this dear part of our Eretz Yisrael. I know that there are very many of the soldiers fighting there are motivated also by the hope that their efforts will not only assure safety for half the country but that their mesirut nefesh will give Am Yisrael back this part of our land --for only then can get closer to Shalom.
.shavua tov ubesorot tovot
PS-anyone who knows someone willing to help fund the busses to take the kids out for the day to keep them sane and other special expenses we have in these challenging times --please be in touch tucker.anita@gmail.com
In a way as crazy as it sounds, it makes you less stressed out than when you hear the siren and feel pressure to run with your kids to safe area .
I hope the people in Tel Aviv now realize they are only 20 km. from shomron and they have lots of rockets that were smuggled in there --so they better forget about disengaging shomron.
I know this may really sound crazy, but since I don't have any safe area anyway --my first reaction to hearing the shriek of the rocket and the noise of fall and explosion was --this feels like home -all i need is the sea sand and celery.
Tonight it isn't too much fun for those mothers we have here in our GK communities with a son in there fighting right now near Gush Katif from where they were thrown out and at the same time the mother is in a caravilla site with no safe area to protect her young children when rockets explode nearby.
Wish I could explain to those leftists demonstrating in Tel Aviv that if we would have not allowed the tunnels and the smuggling of weapons ,rockets etc and parts we wouldn't have to bomb them now. People who trylly want peace must not allow weapons to reach those that lack the morality to use them properly --so that we would have no need to bomb to protect our civilians and people would not have to be .
I wish I so that our government felt that they are sending our dear men into this war not only to protect us but to give us back this dear part of our Eretz Yisrael. I know that there are very many of the soldiers fighting there are motivated also by the hope that their efforts will not only assure safety for half the country but that their mesirut nefesh will give Am Yisrael back this part of our land --for only then can get closer to Shalom.
.shavua tov ubesorot tovot
PS-anyone who knows someone willing to help fund the busses to take the kids out for the day to keep them sane and other special expenses we have in these challenging times --please be in touch tucker.anita@gmail.com
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Looking for offers to entertain Ein Tzurim -Netzer Hazani -Gadid children for day trips to your community
Dear friends ,
As you know we have no "safe area" in Ein Tzurim caravilla site in which for our children to seek protection during the siren alerts when the rockets explode and fall. The Pikud HaOref has as of yesterday closed all the nurseries,kindergartens and schools in the area and in nearby areas probably all this week and perhaps some of next week as well.
We would like to bus between 30 -40 children of Netzer Hazani-Gadid community in Ein Tzurim (ages about 2.5-3yrs until about 13 yrs. for daily trips to various communities who will be willing to host entertainment for the children and perhaps some of the parents who are not working . Perhaps youth in the host community or parents could prepare activities in various age groups , perhaps local musicians ,actors etc could help ---an outdoor trip in your area ---anyhting your community can think of that will make the day pleasant for the kids and parents --would be great !.
We have two people in our community trying to coordinate such activities and days
so please if you have any ideas or would like to organize people in your community to try and help them lift up this glove that would be amazing -- for any ideas suggestions or willingness to do this one day
please contact Anat Meller 054-2562609 in the morning..
Please pass this on to others as well --thanks for caring,caring gives strength,anita( 0547775268)
As you know we have no "safe area" in Ein Tzurim caravilla site in which for our children to seek protection during the siren alerts when the rockets explode and fall. The Pikud HaOref has as of yesterday closed all the nurseries,kindergartens and schools in the area and in nearby areas probably all this week and perhaps some of next week as well.
We would like to bus between 30 -40 children of Netzer Hazani-Gadid community in Ein Tzurim (ages about 2.5-3yrs until about 13 yrs. for daily trips to various communities who will be willing to host entertainment for the children and perhaps some of the parents who are not working . Perhaps youth in the host community or parents could prepare activities in various age groups , perhaps local musicians ,actors etc could help ---an outdoor trip in your area ---anyhting your community can think of that will make the day pleasant for the kids and parents --would be great !.
We have two people in our community trying to coordinate such activities and days
so please if you have any ideas or would like to organize people in your community to try and help them lift up this glove that would be amazing -- for any ideas suggestions or willingness to do this one day
please contact Anat Meller 054-2562609 in the morning..
Please pass this on to others as well --thanks for caring,caring gives strength,anita( 0547775268)
Update on war situation of Netzer Hazani in Ein Tzurim
To all our friends and acquaintances and caring people who have called and written in concern as to how Gush Katif people in the " dangerous circles" are managing with the "red alerts",shalom
In Ein tzurim we feel like total idiots ---as our homes and businesses were destroyed so that we can be in same situation as before but now have no protection whatsoever!!
Thus, while many children have no school and will be wandering around unprotected while the schools all have protected rooms (chelm or not chelm) --we had to put up a big fight to get the kindergartens to reopen so that the children might be near a protective room when the alert goes off (if we happen to hear it from a distant area of kibbutz ein tzurim --one hears it from here only outdoors and indoors only if you leave windows open and have no music on).
They are also concerned that too many be concentrated in one location and if rocket happens to fall there then many will chas vechalila be hurt at one time . So this statistically slight chance is causing all to react exactly as the enemy intends --to cause our daily lives to be turned inside out and freeze people with fear---to me it seems absurd and almost sick.
Of course a little piece of Eretz israel of shevet yehuda was given away free of charge so that we could fight this dangerous war to rid us of the enemy to whom we gave the land .
It is now ten years since Oslo Peace agreement and all the craziness it brought . Ten years and Am Yisrael seems to be walking backwards on a endless plank with its eyes tied close --. I recall writing such an email letter to friends right after the road map agreement trial telling about the same preparations for the missile attacks in Netzer Hazani.
I may as well be back home ---nothing has changed except that I'm less protected than then and threats are worse for many more people.. So maybe they can make some order and let us go back home .
Now we are fighting to have the afternoon moadoniot open for same reason --while Pikud Haoref(Homefront Command ) only know how to make general announcements without checking situation in each location. We are also trying to pressure kibbutz hadati to allow us to leave the shelters in the yeshiva of kibbut hadati open -as it is closed down this year ) or at least give us keys so that families who are fearful have the option of sleeping there if they wish.I don't know of any such families but having that option open is comforting to some ,we believe.(among many families injured from shrapnel of rockets in Netzer Hazani we have one fellow that still has 116 slivers of shrapnel in his body ,one who was injured quite seriously --and three more rockets fell in his garden after he was injured family was saved by mammash miracles) .
Meanwhile we are trying to fulfil our responsibility by nudging pikud HaOref to bring us Miguniot ---but we fear they will degrade us as they have done to our friends in Nitzan who also made a lot of noise as to lack of any protection ---and resulted in Pikud HaOred bringing them big sewage pipes with Battonadot on each open side ---into which they are to enter with families if there is a red alert.
Last night we had meeting of our Tzevet Cheirum Yishuvi (committee of our town that deals with emergency situations) we are unfortunately a well oiled experienced committee ---and among our members Zahava who live here in Netzer Hazani in Ein Tzurim is the school advisor of the religious elementary school in shderot and Monique head nurse in clinic of caravilla site in Nitzan who gave us rundown of what is happening there .
We decided to keep sending daily notices to our population to keep them as informed as possible as to all that is being done . also to shlepp the regional council
Social worker to visit those families most likely to get stressed out in this tense atmosphere --with no protection around and nothing to do about it other than write emails and faxes to Pikud HaOref --after their poured concrete home was destroyed to bring them to this.
We also will continue and have more shiurim and tehilim etc that are the most strengthening than anything else as that is the most relaxing solution we all know of and the only place one finds any logical answers ----
We continue as well the meetings planned for this week about the building anew ---unless the officials who are supposed to come to speak chicken out. We are working on figuring out how we can manage to build a the public buildings anew. We have the opportunity to buy 50 more dunam to make a forest and ecologically sound recreation area with bike paths ,skating rink etc. We hope that the name of every family that supported us before and since expulsion will be honored there and it will unite all the caring people in Am Yisrael. Lots of work to do --and this illogical situation is distracting from our present focus.
We also hope to activate our young people -- whose studies in Ashkelon and shaar hanegev are closed -- to help in our efforts.
We will take interest in our families whose kids are in the special units fighting back home in Gaza ---the craziness of their situation is beyond words. These kids who were thrown out of their homes are now putting their lives on the line willingly to clean out area again
Most of the birthright groups who were to have been in guesthouse in Ein Tzurim and I was to speak to have canceled as they are not allowed in the circles of the red alerts so they no can only visit northern half of the country .Only ZOA student group who are to come tonight have not yet can celled .
---kol hakavod to ZOA!.
Late last night we received notice which schools will open and which will not ---so some kids here have school and some don't depending on decision of Pikud HaOref and Moatzot and whether school has protected area or not.. By this morning turned out that almost all the kids are not learning today . They ,will be wandering around unprotected with no school and with some of their parents at work (those working north of Asdod -Yavneh -) ---lovely situation.
Our koach this week comes from the koach of Channukah --and we certainly won't allow anyone to turn off those lights' and the strength and miracles we so enjoyed last week.
If we keep our eyes open it is easy to see that the lights are still on in so many spots of chesed and caring . BE"h they will get stronger and be seen and felt in more and more circles.
BE"H certainly soon Hakadosh Baruch Hu will let us know clearly why all this is LeTovah ---we yearn for this time anxiously ---meanwhile praying for this time gives koach as well as connecting with all you great people who feel care and understand.
Love you all,
Anita
PS feel free nudge pikud HaOref(IDF homefont command) to provide us with Miguniot (small structures that are protective for some rockets that are placed in neighborhoods to run to for protection when have red alert of rocket attack) --sewage pipes are only protective against shrapnel at most but cannot protect against even smallest of missiles as it is not thick enough concretes. No doubt our protection will come from Hakadoah Baruch Hu . As we had the zchut to see endless miracles ,now people all over the country have the zchut . However we are still obligated to do our hishtadlut.
In Ein tzurim we feel like total idiots ---as our homes and businesses were destroyed so that we can be in same situation as before but now have no protection whatsoever!!
Thus, while many children have no school and will be wandering around unprotected while the schools all have protected rooms (chelm or not chelm) --we had to put up a big fight to get the kindergartens to reopen so that the children might be near a protective room when the alert goes off (if we happen to hear it from a distant area of kibbutz ein tzurim --one hears it from here only outdoors and indoors only if you leave windows open and have no music on).
They are also concerned that too many be concentrated in one location and if rocket happens to fall there then many will chas vechalila be hurt at one time . So this statistically slight chance is causing all to react exactly as the enemy intends --to cause our daily lives to be turned inside out and freeze people with fear---to me it seems absurd and almost sick.
Of course a little piece of Eretz israel of shevet yehuda was given away free of charge so that we could fight this dangerous war to rid us of the enemy to whom we gave the land .
It is now ten years since Oslo Peace agreement and all the craziness it brought . Ten years and Am Yisrael seems to be walking backwards on a endless plank with its eyes tied close --. I recall writing such an email letter to friends right after the road map agreement trial telling about the same preparations for the missile attacks in Netzer Hazani.
I may as well be back home ---nothing has changed except that I'm less protected than then and threats are worse for many more people.. So maybe they can make some order and let us go back home .
Now we are fighting to have the afternoon moadoniot open for same reason --while Pikud Haoref(Homefront Command ) only know how to make general announcements without checking situation in each location. We are also trying to pressure kibbutz hadati to allow us to leave the shelters in the yeshiva of kibbut hadati open -as it is closed down this year ) or at least give us keys so that families who are fearful have the option of sleeping there if they wish.I don't know of any such families but having that option open is comforting to some ,we believe.(among many families injured from shrapnel of rockets in Netzer Hazani we have one fellow that still has 116 slivers of shrapnel in his body ,one who was injured quite seriously --and three more rockets fell in his garden after he was injured family was saved by mammash miracles) .
Meanwhile we are trying to fulfil our responsibility by nudging pikud HaOref to bring us Miguniot ---but we fear they will degrade us as they have done to our friends in Nitzan who also made a lot of noise as to lack of any protection ---and resulted in Pikud HaOred bringing them big sewage pipes with Battonadot on each open side ---into which they are to enter with families if there is a red alert.
Last night we had meeting of our Tzevet Cheirum Yishuvi (committee of our town that deals with emergency situations) we are unfortunately a well oiled experienced committee ---and among our members Zahava who live here in Netzer Hazani in Ein Tzurim is the school advisor of the religious elementary school in shderot and Monique head nurse in clinic of caravilla site in Nitzan who gave us rundown of what is happening there .
We decided to keep sending daily notices to our population to keep them as informed as possible as to all that is being done . also to shlepp the regional council
Social worker to visit those families most likely to get stressed out in this tense atmosphere --with no protection around and nothing to do about it other than write emails and faxes to Pikud HaOref --after their poured concrete home was destroyed to bring them to this.
We also will continue and have more shiurim and tehilim etc that are the most strengthening than anything else as that is the most relaxing solution we all know of and the only place one finds any logical answers ----
We continue as well the meetings planned for this week about the building anew ---unless the officials who are supposed to come to speak chicken out. We are working on figuring out how we can manage to build a the public buildings anew. We have the opportunity to buy 50 more dunam to make a forest and ecologically sound recreation area with bike paths ,skating rink etc. We hope that the name of every family that supported us before and since expulsion will be honored there and it will unite all the caring people in Am Yisrael. Lots of work to do --and this illogical situation is distracting from our present focus.
We also hope to activate our young people -- whose studies in Ashkelon and shaar hanegev are closed -- to help in our efforts.
We will take interest in our families whose kids are in the special units fighting back home in Gaza ---the craziness of their situation is beyond words. These kids who were thrown out of their homes are now putting their lives on the line willingly to clean out area again
Most of the birthright groups who were to have been in guesthouse in Ein Tzurim and I was to speak to have canceled as they are not allowed in the circles of the red alerts so they no can only visit northern half of the country .Only ZOA student group who are to come tonight have not yet can celled .
---kol hakavod to ZOA!.
Late last night we received notice which schools will open and which will not ---so some kids here have school and some don't depending on decision of Pikud HaOref and Moatzot and whether school has protected area or not.. By this morning turned out that almost all the kids are not learning today . They ,will be wandering around unprotected with no school and with some of their parents at work (those working north of Asdod -Yavneh -) ---lovely situation.
Our koach this week comes from the koach of Channukah --and we certainly won't allow anyone to turn off those lights' and the strength and miracles we so enjoyed last week.
If we keep our eyes open it is easy to see that the lights are still on in so many spots of chesed and caring . BE"h they will get stronger and be seen and felt in more and more circles.
BE"H certainly soon Hakadosh Baruch Hu will let us know clearly why all this is LeTovah ---we yearn for this time anxiously ---meanwhile praying for this time gives koach as well as connecting with all you great people who feel care and understand.
Love you all,
Anita
PS feel free nudge pikud HaOref(IDF homefont command) to provide us with Miguniot (small structures that are protective for some rockets that are placed in neighborhoods to run to for protection when have red alert of rocket attack) --sewage pipes are only protective against shrapnel at most but cannot protect against even smallest of missiles as it is not thick enough concretes. No doubt our protection will come from Hakadoah Baruch Hu . As we had the zchut to see endless miracles ,now people all over the country have the zchut . However we are still obligated to do our hishtadlut.
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