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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 09:37 14/10/2007 Ultra-Orthodox set to protest against division of Jerusalem By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent 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. Advertisement 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. More Jewish World news and features Related articles Coalition hawks slam reported Ramon plan for partition of J'lem No one in Kadima is asking if J'lem will be divided, just how Bookmark to del.icio.us A quick end to the strike? Teachers are replacing port workers in the public's mind as the 'official, serial national strikers.' Do donations hurt academia? A Haifa professor says funding from corporations gives rise to some ethical conundrums.   1.   what do the haredim care? Hypocrites! 10:38  |  Suzie 14/10/07   2.   Suzie get your facts straight 10:52  |  Velvel 14/10/07   3.   ABOUT TIME:IN MATTERS OF MORTAL DANGER JERUSALEM IS SAME AS GUSH 10:54  |  VOICE of MOSHIACH))) 14/10/07   4.   UNITED we stand and the prophets words run through the generation 11:27  |  Dr Levy 14/10/07   5.   Haredi Protest - Useless 11:27  |  Dr. Dave 14/10/07   6.   UNITED we stand and the prophets words run through the generation 11:32  |  Dr Levy 14/10/07   7.   Is Having An Undivided Jerusalem/No Peace...REALLY WORTH IT? 11:37  |  Proud Pal Defender 14/10/07   8.   Jerusalem Must Be DIVIDED/SHARED! You Can Have NONE Or SOME. 11:40  |  Proud Pal Defender 14/10/07   9.   #2 Velvel 11:42  |  Suzie 14/10/07   10.   Pal Defender Stop speaking gibberish and wild claims 11:48  |  Velvel 14/10/07   11.   Haredi demands 11:51  |  Jimmy 14/10/07   12.   THIS IS SICK. CAN YOU IMAGINE IF THEY EVER DID THIS?? 12:59  |  PalestniansAreA Myth 14/10/07   13.   WHAT ARE THE ULTRA`S DOING FOR ISRAEL? 13:30  |  Kooky Dennt 14/10/07   14.   Protest 13:42  |  JordanisPalestine 14/10/07   15.   Kassams in east Jerusalem 15:08  |  CML 14/10/07   16.   peace involves concessions and joint control 15:25  |  roberta 14/10/07   17.   division of jer 15:57  |  david 14/10/07   18.   Let the Pope have it 21:36  |  The Debil 14/10/07

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