Masa bans transport to West Bank, tools of Jerusalem

Masa Israel Journey has criminialized participants in a programs from visiting a settlements or anywhere in Judea and Samaria, and from easterly Jerusalem due to a stream call of militant attacks emanating from a region.

The classification also told institutions in that Masa participants are placed that they can't classify any trips to these areas.

Masa has brought some 120,000 Diaspora Jews ages 18 to 30 to Israel on several programs in sequence to strengthen Jewish temperament and affinity with Israel.

On Friday, a classification sent an email to institutions where Masa-funded participants are placed, saying, “Due to a confidence conditions and a instructions of a police, all trips designed for Judea and Samaria and easterly Jerusalem should be canceled from now until serve notice.”

Masa pronounced there was “a sum ban” on going to Judea and Samaria and easterly Jerusalem “as a organisation or privately” in any way.

A second email sent on Sunday simplified that transport by Area C of Judea and Samaria was available from Jerusalem east down Route 1 to a Almog Junction usually southeast of Jericho, and from there southward to Ein Gedi, or northward along Route 90 to Tiberias.

It also remarkable that trips to a Jewish Quarter of a Old City and a Western Wall are permitted, though usually by a Jaffa and Zion Gates, as good as trips to a City of David archaeological site usually south of a Old City.

A comparison central during an establishment with students upheld by Masa described a process as “unfortunate and misguided,” and pronounced a process per students wishing to go to such areas in a private ability was generally problematic.

“To tell students they can’t confirm to transport to places that are underneath finish Israeli control, even to see family, friends and teachers, is inapt and sends a students, other Israelis and generally a enemies accurately a wrong message,” pronounced a official.

“We feel quite strongly about a thought of banning people who select out of their possess giveaway will to go to places like Gush Etzion and Ma’aleh Adumim, that are as protected as other places in Israel and a rest of a world. Maybe we should anathema Pittsburgh, Strasbourg and London next.”

The central conceded that he believed Masa’s regard was “solely for confidence and safety” and that “their heart is in a right place,” though pronounced a new instructions were “teaching students that everywhere in Judea and Samaria is reduction Israeli and reduction secure, and that’s not loyal and it’s giving in to terrorism and is totally unwarranted.”

Masa pronounced in response, “Masa’s procedures are dynamic in a organization’s regulations and change according to a instructions of a authorities that approach Masa on reserve and confidence issues. Masa is thankful to surprise all bodies with that it works about these reserve and confidence procedures and all associated to orderly activities, as is a box in this instance.”

The classification declined to contend if visits to neighborhoods in Jerusalem such as Ramot, Ramat Eshkol, French Hill, Har Homa and Gilo, that are over a Green Line, would be permitted.

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