Sha’alvim for Women was privileged to host Mrs.
Anita Tucker on Tuesday evening. We heard Mrs. Tucker’s moving story about what it was like living in Gush Katif for 29 years and raising a family and a vegetable-raising
and packing business there.
She also told us the story of the disengagement from her first-hand
experience and what is was like to live in temporary lodging in dormitories for
almost a year before settling in the community’s temporary quarters in Kibbutz
Ein Tzurim.
Mrs. Tucker works today helping the Gush Katif
communities retain their unique character of Torah-and-Land of Israel values,
friendly communal relations, and pioneering spirit. She also speaks around the
world about the difficulties that the Gush Katif people overcame in order to remain
united and receive compensation, in the form of land and housing,
for their homes in Gush Katif.
Mrs. Tucker also won the Moskowitz Prize for
Zionism in 2010. The Moskowitz Prize, founded by Dr. Irving and Cherna
Moskowitz, was “established in recognition of the people who put Zionism into
action in today's Israeli society -- at times risking their own personal
security, placing the collective interest before personal needs, and doing what
it takes to ensure a strong, secure Jewish homeland.”
Many Sha'alvim students wore pink today - together with thousands of other people worldwide - to show support for, and learn about, young women and their families, of all Jewish backgrounds, facing breast cancer.
