PA daily prints positive article about "settler and peace activist"
The PA daily published the following positive article on its front page about Rabbi Menachem Froman and his efforts to promote peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Headline: "Settler and peace activist Rabbi Menachem Froman has passed away"
"Yesterday, well-known Israeli Rabbi Menachem Froman, who maintained friendships with Palestinian officials, passed away at the age of 68 after a long battle with the [cancer] disease - as reported by the Israeli media.
Menachem Froman was born in 1945 in Mandatory Palestine. He was the Rabbi of the Tekoa settlement located in the southern part of the occupied West Bank and worked vigorously towards a peaceful solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
According to Rabbi Froman, the Jewish and Muslim spiritual leaders are the most appropriate people to find a solution which will lead to peace, since this conflict has a religious nature.
Based on this view, he maintained ties with PLO leaders, specifically with historical leader Yasser Arafat, and also met with leaders of the Hamas movement.
Froman is the founder of the peace movement, Land of Peace, whose members are both settlers and Palestinians. He criticized the violations committed by the most extreme settlers against Palestinian targets, and visited a few vandalized mosques to express solidarity.
Rabbi Froman used to stress that he is willing to live in a Palestinian state in the event that Jewish settlements in the West Bank would be evacuated.
Froman, who fell ill with a type of cancer, hoped to 'be capable of contributing to peace until his final breath.'"
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Note: The article was originally published by Agence France-Presse.
Headline: "Settler and peace activist Rabbi Menachem Froman has passed away"
"Yesterday, well-known Israeli Rabbi Menachem Froman, who maintained friendships with Palestinian officials, passed away at the age of 68 after a long battle with the [cancer] disease - as reported by the Israeli media.
Menachem Froman was born in 1945 in Mandatory Palestine. He was the Rabbi of the Tekoa settlement located in the southern part of the occupied West Bank and worked vigorously towards a peaceful solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
According to Rabbi Froman, the Jewish and Muslim spiritual leaders are the most appropriate people to find a solution which will lead to peace, since this conflict has a religious nature.
Based on this view, he maintained ties with PLO leaders, specifically with historical leader Yasser Arafat, and also met with leaders of the Hamas movement.
Froman is the founder of the peace movement, Land of Peace, whose members are both settlers and Palestinians. He criticized the violations committed by the most extreme settlers against Palestinian targets, and visited a few vandalized mosques to express solidarity.
Rabbi Froman used to stress that he is willing to live in a Palestinian state in the event that Jewish settlements in the West Bank would be evacuated.
Froman, who fell ill with a type of cancer, hoped to 'be capable of contributing to peace until his final breath.'"
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Note: The article was originally published by Agence France-Presse.
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