Working together Tel Hevron
Israelnationalnews.com reports that after noticing the larvae in one of the trees by Noam Arnon, spokesman for Hevron’s Jewish community, who noticed the invasive species taking root while hiking through the area. He contacted the Ministry of Agriculture and the IDF Civil Administration to warn them. Over the next tow weeks both groups worked together to save these trees and solve the problem in a cooperative manner.
While the media often prefers to focus on Jewish-Arab tensions in Hevron, there is not insignificant Jewish-Arab cooperation in the city as well. In 2005, Arabs and Jews united in order to expel extreme-left foreign activists from the city. In 2008 an Arab sheikh prevented left-wing anarchists from destroying the Hazon David synagogue; Arab and Jewish leaders later sat down together in an attempt to create friendly Muslim-Jewish ties.
In April, local Jews and Arabs worked together to restore an archaeological site in Tel Hevron.
