Israeli Settler Dedicated His Life to Peace
Rabbi Menachem Froman, who died March 5, believed that only religious leaders could resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as Shlomi Eldar recalls.
Rabbi Menachem Froman, the spiritual leader of the Jewish settlement of Tekoa in Gush Etzion, died on Tuesday [March 5] after a long illness. Standing over his fresh grave, Froman’s son recalled his father with the following words:
“You taught us that the more a man enjoys freedom, the closer he is to God. You said that freedom is where all the extremes meet, and [the search for] freedom became that wild game that was your life. Even in your concern for our people, you sought out the extremes, right and left; you even forged bonds with our Arab neighbors. It was your initiative, and it became your life’s work.”
When he was done, his son joined the crowd in singing a song by Ehud Manor, which his father had asked to be sung over his grave:
“I have no other land,
