A new video aims to present the recent explosion of Jewish farms throughout Israel’s Samaria and Judea regions.
One of the main objectives of these farms, especially the one outside Pnei Kedem established by Rav Gavriel Reiss, is to help the Jewish people stop living like bourgeois colonizers in gated “settlements” throughout the West Bank and to start relearning what it means to live like natives on the land.
An argument often made by many of the farmers and shepherds involved in the farms is that the organized Jewish drive to populate the territories in resistance to Western efforts to divide the land into two separate states has drifted away from its revolutionary roots and created a network of westernized suburban communities living behind fences and military protection.
While this has attracted many Jewish residents looking for affordable homes and higher quality of life than what’s available west of the Green Line, therefore increasing the West Bank Jewish population, it has also diluted the culture and revolutionary spirit of what should arguably be Israel’s ideological vanguard.
The farms seek to correct this deviation by normalizing Jews living as their ancestors did, farming, herding sheep, and connecting to the land in an organic way. Not living behind fences and military protection but living free without set boundaries and taking responsibility for their own security.
Another more obvious objective of the farms, however, has been to prevent European-funded projects from cutting off Jewish access from state land in Area C.
At a time when the Israeli government came under heavy pressure from Washington to stop building any new Jewish communities in the territories, the farms began to function as a loophole through which Jews could lay claim to large tracts of land and create the new front in the struggle for Eretz Yisrael.
To support and expand this effort, the Farms Fund was established.
Within Israeli society, more than 21,000 people have already joined. Now, with the launch of this English-language video, Diaspora Jews and Noaḥides have the opportunity to learn about and support these farms.
You can support these farms with just $18 per month by clicking here.
