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Veteran settler Katzover: Livni encourages boycott wave

In an interview with Al-Monitor, veteran settler Benny Katzover says there's a link between the settlers' youth violence against IDF soldiers and the forced evacuation of illegal outposts, and Katzover does not worry about the boycott of products.
ELON MOREH, WEST BANK - FEBRUARY 27:  (FILE PHOTO)  Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (C) with Interior Minsiter Yosef Burg (2nd R) and settler leader Benny Katzover (R) listens to an explanation by Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon (2nd L) about the development February 27, 1981 of the permanent settlement of Elon Moreh east of the West Bank Palestinian town of Nablus. After being forcibly evacuated by the Israeli army from the nearby Sebastia train station seven times since the summer of 1974, the pio
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Standing on the summit of Mount Kabir in Samaria on Monday, April 7, 792 meters (a half-mile) above sea level, we could make out the mountains of Gilboa through the thick mist. The Jewish settlement Elon Moreh lies on the slopes of Mount Kabir, next to the city of Nablus. The settlement’s distinctive red roofs fill the nearby landscape like some pastoral village scene. It's one of the oldest symbols of the entire settlement enterprise.

We climbed the mountain at noon, together with Benny Katzover, chairman of the Samaria Settlers’ Committee and a founder of Elon Moreh. Among the general public, Katzover is one of the people most identified with the Gush Emunim settlement movement, which could be called the DNA of the settlement enterprise. He arrived in Hebron when he was 21, and a short time after that he got married. His wedding was the first Jewish wedding to take place in Hebron since the riots of 1929. He later became a leader of the settlement umbrella organization Yesha Council, the political front for the settlements, and served as head of the Samaria Regional Council.

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