Zo Artzeinu

Israeli right-wing nationalist protest movement

Official Logo of Zo Artzeinu - Israel Trees

Zo Artzeinu (Hebrew: זוֹ אַרְצֵנוּ!, This is our land) was founded in 1993 in order to help safeguard the land of Israel, Their main project Israel Trees has planted more fruit trees in Israel than any other organization. The trees not only beautify and settle the land, but provide a living and support for entire communities who work the land and take care of these trees and their fruits. They also give us all the opportunity to share in fulfilling numerous Mitzvot, Biblical commandments on the land, the trees and their fruits. Their website is www.IsraelTrees.org

Zo Artzeinu was originally founded as a nationalist protest movement created and led by Moshe Feiglin and Shmuel Sackett in Israel to prevent Israeli land concessions to Arab terrorists such as Yasir Arafat in the early 1990s, especially the Oslo Accords. The movement used to block roads and use other forms of non violent civil disobedience adapted from the civil rights movement in the United States by the likes of Martin Luther King.

In March 1996 Zo Artzeinu leader Binyamin Elon appeared on the Moledet electoral list, and gained a Knesset seat in the May general election. In 1998, Feiglin and Sackett moved on to establish the Manhigut Yehudit ("Jewish Leadership") faction within the Likud party, with Feiglin eventually running for leadership of the Likud party. Moshe Feiglin got onto the Likud list and served as a Knesset member with Likud in 2013 and even served as speaker of the Knesset with the recommendation of PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

Since1996 Zo Artzeinu (Hebrew: זוֹ אַרְצֵנוּ!, This is our land) in Hebrew, took on some projects that will safeguard the land of Israel in line with its goals. One of them was to bring dogs to protect yishuvim (settlements), this become known as the IDU Israel Dog Unit which is now Israel's largest Search and rescue - unit. They are the leading civilian unit in the country for locating missing persons with specially trained search dogs. Along with the dogs, volunteers operate UAVs, ATVs, diving equipment, horses, boats, and more to locate missing people. They have volunteers from all over Israel and are called to search for missing people by the police and army regularly. They were the leading unit to find missing bodies in the Oct 7th Massacre by Hamas both alive and deceased.

The other project run by Zo Artzeinu since 1996 was planting fruit trees all over Israel including in the biblical parts. In 2003 this became known as the Israel Trees project which is the main project of Zo Artzeinu now. As of today they have helped farmers, communities and even schools all over Israel plant over half a million fruit trees of all types. These fruit trees help safeguard the land of Israel which is inline with Zo Artzeinu's main goals, and brings a modest living to the farmers who care for them. The fruit trees, orchards and vineyards also keep the areas they were planted in safe and secure. You can see regular news updates here with short descriptions, photos and videos of places they recently planted. You can see more videos of farmers and groups planting trees here and you can see a partial map of the different locations they have planted fruit trees all over Israel here. The home page for Zo Artzeinu today is simply www.IsraelTrees.org Zo Artzeinu is a-political and simply wants to help protect and safeguard the holy biblical land of Israel.

References

External links

  • https://www.israeltrees.org/
  • https://www.amyisroelchai.com/israel-trees-of-zo-artzeinu
  • https://www.jewishpress.com/tag/zo-artzeinu/
  • This is our land - About Us Zo Artzeinu's old first website at the Wayback Machine
  • Feiglin, Moshe Where There are No Men: Zo Artzeinu's Struggle Against the Post-Zionism Collapse at zehut.org.il. Where There are No Men: Zo Artzeinu's Struggle Against the Post-Zionism Collapse at Wayback Machine
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