The shirts are to be worn at the Israel Day Parade this Sunday and the subsequent concert. "The goal is to flood the area with orange in support of our brethren in Gush Katif," say the organizers. Participating communities include Lawrence, Woodmere, Passaic, Teaneck, Bergenfield, Monsey, Engelwood, Edison/Highland Park, Brooklyn, Milford and Manhattan. For more information, contact "randbk@aol.com" or "smarstan@aol.com".
Ladaat.net reports that Rabbi David Druckman, Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Motzkin and a strongly vocal opponent of the disengagement plan, plans to move to Gush Katif tomorrow.
Ladaat.net reports that Rabbi David Druckman, Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Motzkin and a strongly vocal opponent of the disengagement plan, plans to move to Gush Katif tomorrow.


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Dozens of other intersections feature impromptu protests at various times during the week. These and other "turning the country orange" activities are detailed on a weekly "Orange email" list, written and distributed by Yoni Goldblatt, a student of the Technion University in Haifa.

"It's important that everyone find two weekly hours to join in and paint the country orange!" Goldblatt writes. The email list is sent out, in Hebrew, to some 5,000 people around the country, "and the more we send out, the more people will arrive at our activities - so tell your friends!"
Some 100 members of the Machal group - Mateh Chiloni Leumi (Secular Nationalists Against the Disengagement) - protested against the expulsion this past Sabbath at the Shefayim Mall north of Raanana. Participants reported surprisingly high cooperation among the shoppers, who received much literature explaining the dangers of the retreat/expulsion plan. Machal founder Yaron Olami explained:

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By Meron Rapaport, Haaretz Correspondent  
The Knesset will Wednesday debate an urgent motion for the agenda filed by MK Jamal Zahalka (Balad) about the plan to destroy some 90 houses of Palestinian residents in Jerusalem's Silwan quarter.
Zahalka said the plan is a "declaration of war" on the Palestinians of East Jerusalem and called on the owners of the houses earmarked for demolition to entrench themselves inside to prevent the destruction

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JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST  May. 31, 2005

Israel could defend itself without the Golan Heights, outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon told Asharq Al-Awsat in a rare interview with the London-based pan-Arab daily, which is seen as the most important newspaper in the Arab world.
Responding to Ya'alon's statement, MK Gideon Sa'ar said the "Chief of Staff acted irresponsibly and inappropriately."
Deputy Agriculture Minister Gila Gamliel estimated that Ya'alon's comments were a move toward a political career in the Labor party, Israel Radio reported.

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