New Israeli plans to link West Bank settlements to first
"settler city" Friday, 27 August 2010 11:35 Media reports in
Israel have revealed plans for a new scheme to link a number of
illegal settlements in the West Bank with the city of Petah
Tikva in the part of Palestine taken by Israel in 1948. Petah
Tikva, by the way, was swamp land purchased back in 1878:-
Petach-Tikva was founded in the year 1878 by a group of pioneers
from Jerusalem,who three years earlier had founded the society
"Work the soil and redeem the land" with the aim to redeem the
land from its aridity, and the people from having to eat charity
bread from the "Distribution" of those days. The three men to
take the initiative from Jerusalem, in founding Petach-
Tikva,were: Rabbi Yoel-Moshe Salomon, Rabbi David Gutmann and
Yehoshua Stampfer...In 1937 Petach-Tikva received the status of
a city. And here, too:- Originally intending to establish a new
settlement in the Achor Valley, near Jericho, the pioneers
purchased land in that area. However, t