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Ultra-Orthodox set to protest against division of Jerusalem
By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Jerusalem of division 

Fearing possible developments in Israel's talks with the Palestinians over control in Jerusalem, ultra-Orthodox leaders have urged the Haredi public to stage a mass protest Thursday against dividing the capital.

The gathering is scheduled to take place at the Old City's Ramban Synagogue. It is being organized by the Chief Rabbi of the Old City, Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzahl, and Rabbi Eliyahu Medina.

The leader of the Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox community in Israel, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, joined the call for protest under the slogan "Over Jerusalem they cast lots," urging the public to rally at a demonstration against the government's diplomatic platform.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government is currently negotiating with the PA over final-status issues ahead of a peace conference scheduled for late November in the United States. Vice Premier Haim Ramon recently announced a plan to transfer the city's Arab neighborhoods to Palestinian control, effectively partitioning the capital.

On the eve of Sukkot earlier this month, just before his death, former chief rabbi Avraham Shapira protested the plan to transfer Jewish holy places to foreign control.

"The Land of Israel belongs to the Nation of Israel and was granted to us as an inheritance by the Creator of the World. Neither the prime minister nor anybody else has the right to give away areas, or even a grain of sand, of the Holy Land of Israel," Shapira wrote. He signed the document along with former Sephardic chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu.

Both Shapira and Eliyahu signed the declaration at the request of MK Uri Yehuda Ariel from the National Union-National Religious Party.

Right-wing groups and Haredis sharply criticized comments made by an aide to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas who demanded Palestinian control over the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City.

MK Effi Eitam (National Union-National Religious Party) called on Jews across the world to speak out against an attempt to interfere with the Jewish connection to the Western Wall and Jerusalem.

"Jews who wish to visit the Western Wall will have to travel there in an armored vehicle, and will be exposed to sniper fire from the Old City's rooftops as Jerusalem residents were before the unification [in 1967]," Eitam said.

Likud MK Yuli Edelstein also criticized the government over Jerusalem. He said ministers' statements about a readiness to make concessions over the capital and the Jewish people's holiest places only serve to increase the Palestinians' demands and raise their expectations.

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      1.   Rabbi Elyashiv : Behave yourself please 21:04  |  Sam (UK) 12/10/07
      2.   Yuli Edelstein the Creature from Chernovitz 21:20  |  Sam (UK) 12/10/07
      3.   Jerusalem 22:14  |  Rabbi Yakov Lazaros 12/10/07
      4.   I support that demo 22:42  |  KUTW 12/10/07
      5.   Israel`s Rabbi`s are like the Mullah`s of the Taliban.... 22:53  |  Dutch Dirk 12/10/07
      6.   Re: Sam from UK 23:31  |  Meir Weinstein 12/10/07
      7.   Is Having An Undivided Jerusalem/No Peace...REALLY WORTH IT? 00:31  |  Proud Pal Defender 13/10/07
      8.   Israel--why on earth? 00:43  |  Steve 13/10/07
      9.   #7 Exactly, why risk trusting snakes like you? 01:47  |  McQueen 13/10/07
      10.   #8 I was unaware that all wars stopped after the Enlightenment 01:49  |  McQueen 13/10/07
      11.   CORRECTION: Is Having An Undivided Jerusalem/No Peace, etc.? 02:07  |  Proud Pal Defender 13/10/07
      12.   The War will never ends if Jerusalem is not Jewish. 02:21  |  Akram Zekaria 13/10/07
      13.   The call to live over law 02:28  |  A Jewish American re 13/10/07
      14.   #35 Dutch Dirk 02:37  |  * BEN JABO 13/10/07
      15.   #7 PPD 02:43  |  * BEN JABO 13/10/07
      16.   #8 Steve - Minneapolis 02:46  |  * BEN JABO 13/10/07
      17.   #7-2 PPD 02:56  |  * BEN JABO 13/10/07
      18.   Jerusalem can remain undivided 03:53  |  Joker 13/10/07
      19.   13# A Jewish American. Defending your country is within the law. 04:12  |  Akram Zekaria 13/10/07
      20.   Time to give Atheists control of Jerusalem 04:28  |  Joe 13/10/07
      21.   jerusalem belongs to the jewish....... 04:41  |  maria 13/10/07
      22.   IT belongs to the jews..... 04:54  |  maria 13/10/07
      23.   I Didn`t Make This Up 05:38  |  Yosemite 13/10/07
      24.   YES HE IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT 05:58  |  Sam 13/10/07
      25.   Jews that harm Jerusalem should be TRIED FOR TREASON & TO GULAG 06:35  |  amir 13/10/07
      26.   Amir - Please not the Gulag 07:22  |  * BEN JABO 13/10/07
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      29.   Too bad those who built the walls of Jerusalem didn`t survive 08:40  |  0 Degrees Kelvin 13/10/07
      30.   The great invention, June 4, 1967 09:28  |  David 13/10/07
      31.   28/Rachel Spoonfed Propoganda to Justify Ethnic Cleasing 09:57  |  0 degrees Kelvin 13/10/07
      32.   21/Maria - wrong again - contract`s fine print 10:03  |  0 Degrees Kelvin 13/10/07
      33.   The Arabs Admit That They Would Not Make Peace In Exchange 10:04  |  Efox 13/10/07
      34.   30/bold racism David/Where did these who don`t exist come from? 10:10  |  0 degrees Kelvin 13/10/07
      35.   The blind leading the blind 10:11  |  Natallie Durson 13/10/07
      36.   re: 0 Degrees Kelvin 10:47  |  Efox 13/10/07
      37.   re: Joe 10:51  |  Efox 13/10/07
      38.   re: Proud Pal Defender 10:57  |  Efox 13/10/07
      39.   Sam the sham: a few errors 11:29  |  Jasmine from Israel 13/10/07
      40.   Sam when did you infiltrate the UK 11:30  |  israeli 13/10/07
      41.   land for peace 11:31  |  parsley 13/10/07
      42.   PPD 11:32  |  millie 13/10/07
      43.   We`ll have the same result with or without a divided Jerusalem 11:33  |  Israeli 13/10/07
      44.   To a Jewish American 11:35  |  Israeli 13/10/07
      45.   Appeasement 12:12  |  Franklin D Roosevelt 13/10/07
      46.   To # 34 12:37  |  charles 13/10/07
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      49.   Charles is no historian 13:25  |  The Arab Hammer 13/10/07
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      51.   Arab hammer has received a hammer on his head 14:24  |  charles 13/10/07
      52.   Arab Hammer 14:27  |  charles 13/10/07
      53.   Charlie boy is wrong again 14:51  |  The Arab Hammer 13/10/07
      54.   #49..arab hammer 15:02  |  Nemesis 13/10/07
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      62.   0 Kelvin 18:22  |  * BEN JABO 13/10/07
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      64.   Jerusalem 18:39  |  American pie 13/10/07
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      70.   To arab hammer and friends 19:21  |  charles 13/10/07
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      76.   Proud Pal Defender, God is NOT a God of division!!! 20:04  |  Virginia 13/10/07
      77.   DIVIDED DOES NOT EQUAL SHARED. 20:05  |  Virginia 13/10/07
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