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A young man at prayer in Hazon David (Photo: David Wilder)
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| By Israel Insider staff April 28, 2008 |
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| Last Night for Hazon David? (Photo: David Wilder) |
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The IDF reportedly was thwarted in its plan to stage a middle of the night operation to destroy an "unauthorized outpost" and synagogue near Hebron.
Hazon David -- "David's vision" -- is a tented house of prayer and study that residents of Hebron and Kiryat Arab set up in memory of two local residents killed on the same day by terrorists in 2001, the second (Yehezkel Mualem) while protesting the murder of the first (David Cohen) that morning.
Intelligence reports cited by Hebron spokesman David Wilder indicated that the synagogoue's destruction was imminent, either late Monday night or at dawn Tuesday.
As a result of the call to actvists, via phone and internet, enough activists turned up on a chilly spring evening to prevent the planned action, the Jerusalem Post reported.
The outpost long has been a bone of contention between residents and security forces. Last Rosh Hashana, according to Wilder, leftists together with local Arabs planned to burn it down but the local Sheikh Jabri, head of the largest Arab clan in the area, forbade its destruction, despite the goading of left-wing activists.
In the years prior to the Sheikh's ruling, leftwingers, security forces, a local Arabs have repeatedly clashed over the site, and the outpost synagogue has been destroyed and rebuilt more than once. Wilder expressed concern that this evening Israeli security forces would try to put an end to "David's Vision" one and for all, and that prayer service's would no longer be heard there. |
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