David Ha'ivri

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.David Ha'ivri (Hebrew: דוד העברי, born Jason David Axelrod, 1967) is an Israeli independent political strategist, who focuses on foreign relations, working closely with Christian Zionists and leading politicians in Washington DC.

[1][2] He emigrated as a child with his family from the United States to Israel at the age of 11, completed high school, and served in the IDF.

Canadian producer Igal Hecht's film 35 Acres explores the issue of the Temple Mount the most contentious piece of real estate on the face of the Earth.

Ha'ivri is the founder of the Shomron Liaison Office,[10] an NGO that worked closely with the local government[11] promoting public relations for the towns of the region.

[13][14] As a spokesman[15] for the Shomron Regional Council, Ha'ivri interacts with international media, foreign government representatives and philanthropists.

[22] Ha'ivri has developed a number of programs aimed and establishing a connection for the settlements in the West Bank with Jewish communities and supporters around the world.

The Kach party was banned from running in the 1988 Knesset elections, and has since been added to terrorist watch lists by Israel, Canada,[28] and the United States.

As a result, in January 2005, the Jerusalem Magistrate's court sentenced Ha'ivri to four months of community service for distributing the T-shirts.

[30] However, in an interview with The New York Times newspaper, Ha'ivri said he no longer engaged in such activism, adding that, at age 43, he had mellowed, even if his core convictions had not.

[31] In the late 1980s, he formed a group of Rabbi Kahane's students at the Yeshivat HaRaayon HaYehudi, which later moved to the town of Kfar Tapuach.

[33] In 2005, Ha'ivri headed a campaign calling for 10,000 Jews to ascend to the Temple Mount, the holiest place to the Jewish people and the most explosive location in the world.

He advocates that all territory controlled by the Israeli government and army between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River rightfully belongs to the Jewish people, and should be officially annexed by the State of Israel, and that the non-Jewish population need to accept the Israel authority and be loyal to the State,[36] therefore advocating the One-state solution.

Ha'ivri is active in a campaign to restore Joseph's tomb in Shechem (Nablus) - a site holy to Christians, Muslims, and Jewish populations in the region.

[38] The site was overrun and demolished by Arab rioters in October 2000 during clashes between IDF forces during the al-Aqsa Intifada.