Although it was a good week in Merhavim,  I would like to begin this post with an account of the events that took place after I returned home.    

Following a very difficult year marked by Jewish pogroms in the West Bank, humanitarian initiatives have been launched. Every week, people my age (in their 70s) travel to those stricken areas to protect Palestinians with their own bodies from settler attacks. These settlers are, of course, not representative of the majority of the residents of Judea and Samaria, but they are violent enough to endanger the lives of their Palestinian neighbors.

So........

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