Rabbi Nava Hefetz
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What is the connection between sovereignty and religion?
My connection to the City of the Patriarchs will not be less strong because there are Palestinians there - it doesn't belong to me any less. But there is a reality and today we have almost 1.5 million human beings [in the West Bank] so we have to be realistic. I cannot go and take over Hebron - I mean, I can because the state makes it possible - but, according to my worldview, I cannot. What I try to say to young people is, don't take things for granted. Question everything. Study these matters, examine them in depth, read - not newspapers - read academic studies. Go out, see what is happening on the ground and then decide, then form an opinion.