Friday, May 21, 2010

Meet Alei Ayin

There is a small, very small community in the Shiloh Bloc named "Alei Ayin" from the verse in Genesis 49:22:

Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a fountain



בֵּן פֹּרָת יוֹסֵף, בֵּן פֹּרָת עֲלֵי-עָיִן


The house, the sheep pen is in the background:


The visitors:


A nearby vineyard:


A Jewish presence, a simple one, in the Land of Israel.



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2 comments:

yoni said...

ok, you object to calling us "settlers", preferring "revenants". so you're a pedant, mazel tov. how do you justify calling this a "community?"

YMedad said...

Under British Mandate Emergency Regulations, three or more persons could be considered an "illegal assembly" and banned.

At Alei Ayin there are more than 3 so I can call it a community.