THIS IS THE YEAR OF ACCELERATED NEGEV DEVELOPMENT!
May 5, 2006
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Active preparation of the Negev Wilderness in southern Israel for use as a War Contingency Evacuation Area began in the early nineteen fifties,
and the process is now being accelerated to make way for the Israeli families dislocated out of the Gaza Strip and West Bank under Sharon’s Unilateral Disengagement Plan.
Prophecy Update Number 6 in our Archives was issued more than five years ago on our Web Site – Following it there is an article about what is happening in the Negev development today, which was extracted from an article by Greer Fay Cashman in the Jerusalem Post.
PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 6
January 2001
Prophecy Update Number 5 ended by mentioning the area to which Israel will flee for safety during the later portion of the tribulation period.
In Revelation 12:6 we find this flight described in graphic detail: “And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.” Prophetic years in scripture are based on a year of 360 days, hence this represents a period of three and one-half years. So Israel will be kept trapped in the Negev wilderness for the last 3 and ½ years of the tribulation period.
Israel has spent billions and billions of dollars preparing the Negev for the possibility of such an evacuation of her population in the in the event of a sudden attack from the north. The Negev has been the central focus of her war contingency plan from the beginning.
Her God put this thinking in the minds of her political and military leaders in the late forties, and active preparation of the area began in the early fifties. Today, the Negev is the most cleverly camouflaged zone on the surface of the earth, and unless sky satellites had watched it being prepared, one would not suspect that numerous military installations were implanted in it.
Even knowing where certain defense mechanisms were originally placed, it is now extremely difficult to spot them, even driving by them at ground level. Thousands of tourists pass through the Negev and admire the beauty of her terrain from her roads, but her military capabilities are cleverly camouflaged on the surface, hidden beneath her, and concealed inside her mountains.
Active preparation of the Negev began in the early fifties.
After the Six Day War of June, 1967, Israel poured her finances and efforts into the creation of a hidden fortress
in the Negev wilderness. The Yom Kippur War of 1973 was followed by Israel quadrupling her military forces by 1980, and the bulk of this increase was placed in the vast Sinai. The peace treaty between Israel and Egypt led to the evacuation of this increase in men and equipment from the Sinai into the much smaller Negev. This turned the already heavily fortified Negev into an impenetrable fortress. By 1983 the Sinai IDF and equipment had been withdrawn into the Negev. The IDF packed up about 80 thousand tons of military equipment, same 3800 military vehicles, and 3 airfields, and moved it into the Negev. The Negev is about 20 percent the size of the Sinai. By 1988 about 40 new military camps had been set up in the Negev. By 1990 the Negev had been topographically tr ansformed, at a f
antastic expense, into an area no enemy would dare to attempt to penetrate.
When Syria, assisted by troops from Iraq and Iran that will be secretly and very slowly smuggled in across her southern and western borders, attacks Israel from the north, then Israel will get to use her Negev wilderness for about 3 and ½ years. These three nations, because of the sharing of satellite information received from the Russians about the Negev, know all about the military strength there and, because of this, will stop their southward push into Israel just north of Beersheba. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will be able to hold the Negev, and the woman Israel will stay there for the last 3 and ½ years of the tribulation period.
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Torch-lighters Represent Negev, Galilee Development
By Greer Fay Cashman, THE JERUSALEM POST
May 1, 2006
It was the great dream of founding father David Ben-Gurion to make the desert bloom.
The dream is getting a major boost Tuesday evening, when the government will officially inaugurate the Year of Development of the Negev and the Galilee at the opening ceremony to mark Israel’s 58th year of independence.
This plan of action started under the previous government, when then prime minister Ariel Sharon put Shimon Peres, one of Ben-Gurion’s most loyal and ardent disciples in charge of the Negev and Galilee Development Project and created a ministry for the purpose.
On Monday, Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with Peres to ask him to continue in this essential ministerial position.
In keeping with this year’s Independence Day theme, all beacons on Mount Herzl will be lit by people with tangible connections to the Negev or the Galilee. Some of the beacons will be lit individually and the others will be lit by pairs.
The following named persons were among the 14 beacon lighters:
Maj.-Gen. (res.) Doron Almog was formerly OC Southern Command.
Almog, who lost a brother in the Yom Kippur War, and is the father of a brain-damaged son, initiated and founded Aleh Negev, an occupational rehabilitation center in the Negev.
Elie Elalouf is the Director-General of the Sacta-Rashi Foundation, which operates hundreds of educational, health and welfare projects for underprivileged children and youth mainly in the Negev and the Galilee with the assistance of private donations from abroad.
Yehuda Dekel is Chairman of the Society for the Preservation of Israel Heritage Sites. Dekel, who spearheaded Mitzpeh (Lookout) settlements in the Galilee and community settlements
in the Negev, has held many high-profile positions in the Jewish Agency and has also been involved in developing industrial and tourism-oriented projects in the Negev and the Galilee.
Ruth Kaplan, who was born in the US in 1946, has lived in the Arava from the age of 17, settling in Moshav Hatzeva before it was accorded settlement status. The desert agriculture experience which she gained together with her friends and colleagues over the years, is now standard practice in all Arava farms.. She continues to derive her income from agriculture and her sons follow in her footsteps in Moshav Hatzeva. She is a member of the Tamar Regional Council.
Zacharia Liraz-Feld is the promoter and organizer of wide-ranging cultural activities in the Negev and the Galilee – Ofakim, Beersheba, Arad, Tiberias, Safed and Merom HaGalil – including the Arad Festival, the Safed Klezmer Festival, the Druze and Circassian Culture Festivals and other educational events.
Stef Wertheimer is renowned as an innovative industrialist. Wertheimer, a former Member of Knesset , has founded many enterprises, including four industrial parks in the Galilee and the Negev.
His has made major contributions to job-generation initiatives and industrial and business entrepreneurship. Over the years, Wertheimer’s creativity has been directed towards educational, social-related and art-oriented projects.
Dr. Esther Luzzatto was born into a large and well-known family in Beersheba and is a partner in a patent attorney law firm. She constantly combines her work with public service. A Ben-Gurion University graduate with a doctorate in chemistry, Luzzatto serves as Deputy President of the university’s Alumni Association.
She is also one of the founders of the Negev Hi-Tech Center.
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