Family moving into Fogel home in Itamar
A family from Itamar is expected to move into the house
where five members of the Fogel family were butchered by Palestinian terrorists
about a year and a half ago, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Wednesday.
On March 11, 2011 Udi Fogel, 36, Ruth Fogel, 35, and
three of their children - Yoav, 11, Elad, 4, and three-month-old Hadas - were
stabbed to death in their sleep by two young Palestinian men who infiltrated
the West Bank settlement.
The three children who survived, Tamar (14), Roi (10) and
Yishai (4) are currently living with their grandparents in Jerusalem.
Shocking pictures from the scene of the massacre in
Itamar were published worldwide.
"I understand why no one wanted to move into the
house until now," a local settler told Yedioth. "Children here are
still having nightmares about the murders."
The 20 families that have relocated to Itamar since the
massacre all refused to move into the Fogel house, which overlooks the
terrorists' home village of Awarta.
But a few months ago a family of eight from Itamar
answered a "house for rent" advertisement placed by the Fogel family
in the local newspaper.
"We are not afraid," said the father, who asked
to remain anonymous. "On the contrary, we are glad to be able to express
our faith in this way and prove to those who hate us that we are persevering
and that we are stronger than they are.
"(God) runs the world, and he is watching over
us," he added.
The father, his wife and their six children, who are all
under the age of five, are expected to move into the house after Tisha B'Av,
which will be observed on Sunday.
Itamar's rabbi, Natan Chai, announced that the
construction of a yeshiva named after Udi Fogel has been completed and that a
synagogue is also being built to commemorate the 20 local settlers who have
been killed in terror attacks over the years.
"The nation of Israel will grow stronger," the
rabbi said. "The murderers will not deter us."
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