20 new families move to Sa-Nur

Northern West Bank settlement slated for evacuation celebrates arrival of newcomers
By Ronny Shaked

SA-NUR – Residents at the northern West Bank settlement of Sa-Nur, slated for evacuation in the framework of the upcoming pullout, will be celebrating Tuesday the arrival of 20 new families to the community, newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reports.

 

The newcomers will join 58 families who moved to the settlement in the past two months.

 

Tuesday’s celebrations are expected to including music, dancing, and speeches by right-wing politicians and rabbis. Following the event, attendants are scheduled to take part in a special prayer session for the welfare of Israel and annulment of the disengagement plan.

 

Among those expected to attend are Knesset Members Yitzhak Levy and Arieh Eldad, a staunch pullout objector who moved to the community recently. A member of the Likud so-called “rebels,” who object to the pullout, is also expected to arrive.

 

Matchmaking event

 

Only four months ago, Sa-Nur was an obscure village of 12 artists, most of them new immigrants. However, in recent months there has been in influx of new residents into the community.

 

Meanwhile, a yeshiva in Kiryat Arba, near Hebron, “adopted” the community and sends 30 yeshiva students to the settlement every week to reinforce the anti-pullout presence there.

 

The new arrivals live in tents for now, with families with children occupying the largest tents. Residents have also prepared a nearby area to accommodate the hundreds of youngsters expected to arrive at the settlement on the eve of the evacuation in a bid to thwart it.

 

Sa-Nur residents say the anti-pullout struggle will also serve as a matchmaking event and add the new couples that will meet during the battle will be future residents of the community.