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My children were stoned a few weeks ago as they drove from their Shomron home to Jerusalem. The two girls were alone in the car and unarmed. Theirs was the only car on the winding road, and they saw Arabs approaching. “These weren’t small rocks in their hands,” they told me – “these were boulders.”

“How were they even able to lift them?” Michal asked Debra, “let alone throw them?”

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As these boulder-like rocks were hurled at the car, Michal advised Debra to get down on the floor of the car and she too crouched lower as she sped along the grass and the road, zigzagging all the way. “I thought we were going to die,” Debra told me. “I was never so frightened in all my life.”

G-d was with them and they made it to Jerusalem unhurt (only the car suffered physical damage). I was very thankful that nothing had happened to them – and proud of them for not losing their cool even in the face of a panic situation, and for knowing what to do. But most of all I am proud because they will go again to Yehuda and Shomron.

I was surprised at how many people upon hearing the story of the girls’ experience quickly asked me if I told Michal to never drive there again. I answered quite honestly that I believe with all my heart in settling all of greater Israel and that my children belong there as well as the next person’s and I would never tell them not go back there.

To be sure, one must exercise caution. There are rules to be followed: try to go with more than one person in a car, and daylight travel is the safest. But I cannot tell a single Jew not to go to Judea and Samaria just because the Arabs don’t like it. I cannot say this to anyone, not even my own child. That would be the victory the Arabs are looking for.

You children will build the country and you will help restore Israel to her former glory. Michal – Debra, I am very proud of you!

This article appeared in our February 9, 1990 issue. It’s amazing how relevant it is to today’s situation in Eretz Yisrael.

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Naomi Klass Mauer is the co-publisher of The Jewish Press.