{"id":3832,"date":"2016-04-08T15:52:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T15:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womenwagepeace.org.il\/?p=3832"},"modified":"2022-08-24T11:21:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T11:21:39","slug":"women-wage-peace-at-tel-hai-on-11-adar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womenwagepeace.org.il\/en\/women-wage-peace-at-tel-hai-on-11-adar\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Wage Peace at Tel Hai on 11 Adar"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Israel, the phrase, \u201cIt\u2019s good to die for our country\u201d is associated with one particular person, one date, and one place. Legend has it that these were the final words of Joseph Trumpeldor on the 11th of Adar, in Tel Hai, which at the time of his death in 1920 was a remote Jewish outpost in the far north of what would become the modern state of Israel.\u00a0 On March 21st, the Gregorian date corresponding this year to the 11th of Adar, members of our movement went up to Tel Hai, both to commemorate the pioneers who defended the site and the heroic battle that took place on that date as well as to proclaim that \u201cit\u2019s good to live<\/em> for our country\u201d and for a life filled with hope and peace.<\/p>\n

The event was organized by several members of our movement who live in the upper Galilee under the leadership of Einat Luzati<\/strong> from Kibbutz Baram. She was joined by Malka Blustein, Aura Hammer, Orit Rosenblit, Daria Arbel, Chaya Dagan, Olga Barel, and Angela Yintian. Despite the forecast for rain, we had an unspoiled view of Galilee greenery on a perfect spring day.<\/p>\n

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We began with a ceremony in memory of Trumpeldor and his comrades near the Roaring Lion Monument erected in 1934 in their honor.\u00a0 The event was moderated by Einat Luzati and featured the following speakers: Batia Guy from Kibbutz Giladi [within which Tel Hai is now situated] and the former director of the haShomer <\/em>[the Guardians] Museum and curator of the\u00a0 Path of the Speaking Stones [a walking path west of Tel Hai featuring stone and bronze sculptures]; Michal Paneth-Peleg; Dr. Yael Admi; Dafna Abrahams from Kibbutz Amiad who is active in the advancement of equal rights and women\u2019s freedom of choice; and Ortal Be\u2019eri from Kibbutz Ma\u2019ayan Baruch, involved in WWP\u2019s Younger Women\u2019s group. In between we listened to a girls\u2019 chorus (made up of\u00a0 Adi, Shiraz, Inbar, Mikah, Ori, and their teacher Sivan Nave Deri) as well as danced and sang along as Ofer Gavish from Kibbutz Yiftach played his guitar.<\/p>\n

After the ceremony we hiked along the Path of the Wounded to the Courtyard of Tel Hai, which was restored in accordance with the design of the original structures built over a century ago. We convened in this historic courtyard for a panel entitled \u201cBeginning in Tel Hai and Still Hai<\/em> [alive],\u201d under the guidance of Orit Rosenblit from Metula and with the participation of Tuffaha Saba, Saviona Rotlevy, Yifah Amit-Schleyer and Moriah Shlomot.<\/p>\n

Orit Rosenblit, whose research is related to Jewish culture, spoke about the importance of the spiritual strength of women throughout generations and about their role in the history of the Jewish people.\u00a0 In regard to the women at the beginning of the Book of Exodus (Moses\u2019 sister Miriam, their mother, Pharaoh\u2019s daughter), it is written in the Talmud: \u201cBy virtue of righteous women, Israel went out from Egypt.\u201d\u00a0 For it is women who emphasize [the importance of] uniting in thought and [demonstrating] mutual responsibility<\/p>\n

Tuffaha Saba, a lecturer at Tel Hai College and advisor to Arab students at its Center for Peace and Democracy, spoke of feeling a different kind of \u2018peripheral\u2019 [in Israeli culture, periphery has a connotation of \u2018backwater\u2019] ; she spoke of feeling foreign. When she leaves home in the morning from Isfiya [a Druze village and local council in northern Israel], she feels as if she doesn\u2019t have a country \u2013 feels alienated in terms of land, citizenship and Israeli culture. It\u2019s an experience of total alienation for her and therefore she has a major identity issue. She doesn\u2019t feel Israeli; but on the other hand, as both a secular woman and a feminist, she senses her lack of belonging to Arab society.<\/p>\n

Saviona Rotlevy, a retired judge and vice president of the District Court in Tel Aviv, referred to Tuffaha\u2019s remarks and noted that she also has been focussing lately on questions of identity and alienation. Saviona recounted childhood experiences that shaped her political awareness. Today she holds onto the hope that many women in Israel, both Jewish and Arab, are putting aside political differences and uniting in order to struggle together for [a livable] life here. Saviona remarked, \u201cIronically enough [despite this site\u2019s association with death and our movement\u2019s with life; its association with building a Jewish future and ours with building a shared future], here in Tel Hai it\u2019s important to emphasize that we are part of a chain.\u00a0 Deborah Drechler, a member of [the youth movement] haShomer, <\/em>met her death here in the courtyard of Tel Hai. She led a \u2018women\u2019s revolt\u2019 against the men who excluded the women from matters of security and defense of the outpost. In their petition, the women of Tel Hai wrote: \u2018If we have indeed been [your] partners in the work [of settling the land] day in and day out for years on end, we will be your partners in every sense. No gathering can take place without us; no secrets may be kept from us.\u2019\u00a0 With the understanding that what unites women is not only the experience of motherhood but also that of representing good judgment and common sense against the march of folly that advocates only the use of force. The fact is that we [the State of Israel]\u00a0 are the strongest regional power and yet we have no security. More planes, more submarines, more fences and walls will not bring us security\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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Our dialog tent in Kiryay Shmoneh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The last stop on this busy day was at the plaza next to the shopping area in Kiryat Shmoneh where we set up, late in the afternoon, our dialogue tent around which an open gathering took place with women, men, and young people on the subject of peace, hope, and an agreement. The tent was set up and staffed by Daria Arbel, Yael Admi, and Aura Hammer.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible that the alternative ceremony we established this year on the 11th of Adar 5776 [the current year as reckoned in the Jewish calendar] will become a tradition and that next year it will attract hundreds of participants \u2013 both members of the movement as well as residents of the communities, towns and cities of the Galilee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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