Some40 to 50 young American Jews who are planning to settle on the West Bank, staged a vigil yesterday at the Isaiah Wall opposite the United Nations in support of Israeli Premier Menachem Begin’s policy “in keeping the West Bank part of Israel,” according to Daniel Fliegler, a spokesman for the American governing council of Lev Tzion, the group which sponsored the vigil. The theme of the vigil was “keep the West Bank Israeli to prevent another Tisha B’av tragedy from occurring.”
According to Fliegler, Lev Tzion is affiliated with Naar Mizrachi in the United States and supports the view of Gush Emunim in Israel. He said that the prospective olim were promised an old Nahal campsite on the West Bank, some 15 miles from Jerusalem, by the former Labor Party government and reaffirmed by the Begin government. Some one dozen Lev Tzion members are presently in Israel waiting for permission to toke over the campsite and make it habitable. “Our aim is to keep the West Bank Jewish,” Fliegler asserted.
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