of blessed memory

Two years ago, Palestinian terrorists broke into the Fogel family home, in the small Israeli community of Itamar. They brutally murdered Ruth and Udi Fogel, and three of their children. The IDF and the Israel Security Agency brought the terrorists to justice. Today, we honor the memory of the Fogel family.

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Two years since Itamar massacre

 

The victims of the attack.Ruth (35), 

Udi (36), Hadas (3 months), 

Yoav (11) and Elad (4) 

On this day two years ago, five members of the Fogel family were brutally murdered in their home in the Israeli community of Itamar

IDF news  Author: Gabriel Freund

On March 11, 2011, Israel reeled from the news of the shocking deaths of five members of the Fogel family, brutally slaughtered in their family home in the Israeli community of Itamar. On that night, two Palestinian terrorists from the nearby town of Awarta infiltrated the small Israeli community and broke into the Fogel's home while they slept, stabbing to death the parents and three of their children, including Hadas – just three months old.

The IDF responded quickly to the incident, conducting investigations alongside the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) which led to the capture and arrest of the two terrorists – Hakim Awad and Amjad Awam – who were subsequently tried and convicted of five counts of murder. They are currently serving five consecutive life sentences in prison.

The examination into the incident revealed that the men had links to the PFLP terror organization. Hamas sources praised the vicious attack as 'heroic'.

The Fogel family's tragic story reminds us that the IDF has no option other than constant vigilance against the endless attempts of agents of terror to harm Israel's citizens.

The Military Police Corps' Erez Battalion has recorded a sharp increase in seizures and apprehensions at crossings and barriers in the Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem regions in recent years. This alarming trend represents both the evolving methods of would-be illegal infiltrators, as well as the battalion's growing effectiveness in preventing such intrusions.

Among the apprehensions and seizures have been countless cases of forged identity documents, as well as attempts to illegally smuggle weapons. In a recent incident, IDF forces apprehended a terrorist released during the Shalit deal who was attempting to infiltrate Israeli territory.

In 2012 soldiers from the Erez Battalion apprehended 1,450 Palestinians attempting to enter Israel illegally, a sober reminder that IDF forces are the line of defense, every day  preventing the entry of terrorists planning to carry out attacks against Israeli citizens.

For more information on the Erez Battalion:
Security forces face increased hostility at crossings

יהי זכרם ברוך

As we prepare to spend Shabbath with our families, please take a moment to remember the Fogel family - baby Hadas, 4 year old Elad, 11 year old Yoav and parents Ruthie and Udi - murdered in their beds two years ago today in Itamar by Palestinian terrorists.

Of blessed memory

a song for Udi, Ruth and thei children

of blessed memory

In memory of Udi, Ruth, Yoav, Elad and little Hadas we must continue to build Eretz Yisrael with no fear and with jewish strenght. We must honor them and not tolerate anymore. 

Build and not destroy! Defend the Jewish nation and free us of our inhuman enemies.

Please, following your possibilities, support Itamar and building the Land of Yisrael, our G.d given Land.

Let us be One People.

May Hashem avenge their blood

For any information please contact  itamar@shechem.org

Israel decides to demolish homes of Fogel murderers

The defense establishment has decided to demolish the homes of the two terrorists who murdered five members of the Fogel family in Itamar.

The decision by Defense Minister Ehud Barak and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz, subject to approval by legal authorities, was broadcast Sunday morning on Army Radio.

The report claimed the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) had recommended demolishing the homes of Hakim and Ajmad Awad, both of whom had announced their pride in their crime.

Two parents, two young boys and a baby were brutally slaughtered as they slept in their home on a Friday night. Their 12-year-old daughter and sister came home to find the carnage after attending a Sabbath evening activity with her youth group. Only two of her little brothers miraculously survived, having escaped the notice of the terrorists during their murderous rampage.

"This was one of the most brutal terrorist attacks ever, and the Shabak thinks the demolition is a punitive step that may deter other terrorists from carrying out such horrendous crimes,” the report quoted former Shin Bet chief Yaakov Perry as saying.

Several years ago, the Shin Bet, known by the Hebrew acronym “Shabak” ended its long-standing policy of advocating the demolition of terrorists' homes. The reason for the change was based on the theory that doing so did not discourage terrorism and instead resulted further legal complications.

Although the agency has not changed its opinion, officials said that in the case of the Fogel murders, the specific viciousness of the murders warranted demolition of the homes because several relatives of the terrorists acted as accessories to murders.

The relatives, who live in the nearby village of Awarta close to Itamar, helped to hide their weapons and destroy the evidence.

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Memorial video

Don't forget want they do to us. And will always doif we don't strong defend ouserlves. Itamar as Toulouse.

In memory of Udi, Ruth, Yoav, Elad and Hadas

Udi  36

Ruth 35 

Yoav11

Elad 4

three-month-old Hadas 

I choose to honor the Fogel family even on the secular yahrtzeit date because I think their memory should be honoured and their lightfull lives should be remember.

As an example of Jewishness and of Jewish unity.

May they be of blessed memory and may Hashem avenge their innocent blood.

a 12 year-old girl returned home...

the silence of the West

Fogel massacre anniversary reminds us that world tolerates murder of Jewish children
One year ago the Fogels were slaughtered in Itamar: Father, mother and three children butchered during a night of horror. That night, a 12-year-old Israeli girl was out with friends until midnight, close to her village, where 100 families live. She arrived home. Nobody answered. She went inside with a neighbor and she saw her mother, father, three siblings (aged 11, three and three-months-old) with their throats cut.
Yet a year after the event, those who profess to deplore violence on both sides of the Israel-Palestinian equation have been completely silent on the Itamar massacre. No words of condemnation about the killing of innocents were heard from human rights groups and NGOs.
In Itamar, the daily diet of settler demonization had its intended effect. Killing a "demon" or the children of “monsters” or “devils” is not like taking the life of a fellow human being. Judea and Samaria’s citizens have indeed been called “leeches”, “snakes” and “parasites.”
In the midst of the second Intifada, when his own students were being butchered on buses and restaurants, Hebrew University Professor Ze’ev Sternhell declared that “the Palestinians would be wise to concentrate their struggle against the settlements.” Like Itamar. In 2001, after Arabs sadistically bashed the skulls of two “settler kids” in Tekoa, Israeli psychiatrist Ruchama Marton declared that “the settlers raise little monsters.” Moshe Zimmerman of Hebrew University said he regards settlers as Hitlerjugend.
Itamar also meant that no rational argument can be used against an ideology maniacally dedicated to Jewish destruction. The dark and glittering eyes of Itamar’s terrorists are telling of their desire to make the Mediterranean red with Jewish blood. It is no wonder then that during a recent program aired on Palestinian television, the aunt of one of the Fogel killers referred to him as a “hero” and “legend.”

A very jewish family in Itamar, Samaria, ISRAEL.

Fogel family memorial 2012

I wish to commemorate even the secular the first Yahrtzeit of the Fogel Family HY’D.
A year ago, 11 March  (6th Adar 5772- 29th February 2012), five members of the same family were murdered in their beds. 

Udi, Ruth, Yoav, Elad and Hadas Fogel from Itamar, a mother, father and three of their children who were brutally murdered while in their home on a Friday night last year.
Their brutal murder, and what followed it really displays the nature of Am Yisrael. Throughout our history we have been persecuted, and murdered, yet this persecution has caused us to strengthen and continue to build and to grow as a nation, just as the people of Itamar have done, building a new Bet Midrash in memory of Udi Fogel.

In Yechezkel, it says “בדמיך חיי” - “In your blood you shall live”.

We will not be silenced. We will not succumb. We will grow and we will build. This is our revenge.

Of blessed memory

Today I will honor the memory of the Fogel family and dedicate to their memory my posts.
Share a prayer for the unity of the People of Yisrael, in their memory.

a little bit of music...

 

Dedicated to Tamar Fogel

B'H" Fogel family memorial day at Itamar

The book of Esther goes Western

"The Good, The Bad & the Ugly" an animated video based on the book of Esther, in memory of Udi Fogel. 

Commentary is based on traditional Jewish sources and an essay written by the Rabbi Jonathan Blass: "Pluralism, Antisemtism, and man's strive to divinity".
Director and writer: Shlomo Blass
Illustrations and Animation: Ofer Winter
Narration: Gedaliah Gurfein
Sound Editing: Soundlab Studios
Script consultant: Chananya Blass

The Fogel family names live on

The last year has seen at least 20 babies become the namesakes of the late Udi, Ruthie, Yoav, Elad and Hadas Fogel 
"People keep calling us to tell us of another baby boy or girl," says Tali Ben-Yishai, Ruthie's mother. The perpetual commemoration keeps growing stronger."  
Of the 20 babies, five were born to the extended Ben-Yishai family, five were born to Itamar residents and at least 10 babies were born throughout the country – mostly to people who didn't even know the Fogels but decided they could not remain indifferent.  
The first baby, Yair Silver from Itamar, was born three days before the massacre. Ruthie Fogel was the one who helped his mother Chana recuperate after giving birth. After the massacre Chana decided to name her son Yair – using the Hebrew initials from Yoav, Elad, Udi and Ruthie's names.
"There is no consolation for what we lost, but each of these new babies show that our children have left a mark, meaning, and strength," said Tali Ben-Yishai.

The commemoration ceremony in Itamar (Photo: Gil Yohanan)

New beit midrash Mishkan Ehud in Itamar (Photo: Gil Yohanan

Meanwhile, on Wednesday the anniversary of the brutal massacre of the Fogel family was marked with a special ceremony in Itamar.
Among those attending were Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, Interior Minister Eli Yishai, senior IDF officers, Knesset members, rabbis and hundreds of civilians. A Torah scroll was be brought into Mishkan Ehud, the new beit midrash inaugurated in memory of the family.
President Shimon Peres sent a letter of condolence to the family in which he wrote: "The year that has passed since that shocking day cannot dull, even a little, the awful pain, the yearning and the sorrow."
The president added that "the massacre victims' legacy to us is one of life that makes our existence as a nation possible."

Yair Altman contributed to the report

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Take a journey with Yishai Fleisher in the Jordan Valley

Jewish family makes Jordan Valley desert bloom

Take a journey with United with Israel’s correspondent Yishai Fleisher to a Jewish farm in the Jordan Valley! You will meet a heroic fearless family who are pioneers living in a place surrounded by Palestinians.
Yishai Fleisher (Managing Editor of JewishPress.com) goes with Marc Prowisor (Director of Security Projects for The One Israel Fund) to a young Jewish family's farm in the Jordan Valley. Marc and One Israel Fund deliver special equipment to the farm to improve security.
See their beautiful family and their life building the Jewish homeland and turning the desert green!

At one year anniversary of the murders of the Fogel family in Itamar it is especially important that people understand that Jewish families are making the desert bloom and that they need special equipment and support to make them safe.

Please SHARE this with your family and friends in honor of the Fogel’s memory as Marc Prowisor explains in the video how this very security equipment could have saved the Fogel family.!

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Rivlin to speak in memory of Fogels

Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin will speak in Itamar on Wednesday night in memory of the five members of the Fogel family murdered in the town one year ago. His speech will be part of festivities celebrating the opening of a new Torah study hall dedicated to the memory of the slain.