{"id":4054,"date":"2012-12-01T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-03-19T19:54:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:54:56","slug":"israeli-street-sign-in-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2012\/12\/israeli-street-sign-in-west-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Street Sign in West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/BetarCheckpoint-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1596\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/BetarCheckpoint-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4055\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Above:<\/strong> An Israeli street sign placed in the occupied West Bank (near Bethlehem) on Road 375 going from El-Khader Junction with road 60 (Tunnel Road) to Ela Valley. The sign is placed just before crossing from Israel to the West Bank, near the illegal, Jewish-only colony\/settlement of Betar Illit and the Palestinian villages of Husan, Batir and Wadi Fuqeen (Betar Checkpoint). It says in Hebrew:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>&#8220;Welcome to Betar Checkpoint<br>This checkpoint is for the passage of Israelis only. It is forbidden to pass and\/or drive a person through this checkpoint, who is not Israeli!!<br><br>&#8220;Israeli&#8221; &#8211; a resident of Israel, a person who lives in the area and is a citizen of Israel, or a person ENTITLED TO MAKE ALIYAH TO ISRAEL ACCORDING TO THE [JEWISH] LAW OF RETURN, 1950, AS VALID IN ISRAEL*<\/p><cite>PHOTO\/TRANSLATION CREDIT: Dudy Tzfati via Roy<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>*Uppercase emphasis added.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;and another such sign just sent to me by a friend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"383\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/JimmyJohnson2006EliyahuCheckpointjustsouthofQalqilya.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-794\" style=\"width:823px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Above:<\/strong> Photo taken in 2006 at Eliyahu Checkpoint just south of the Palestinian city of Qalqilya. This one is in Arabic on left side and Hebrew on right side. (PHOTO CREDIT: Jimmy Johnson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above: An Israeli street sign placed in the occupied West Bank (near Bethlehem) on Road 375 going from El-Khader Junction with road 60 (Tunnel Road) to Ela Valley. The sign is placed just before crossing from Israel to the West Bank, near the illegal, Jewish-only colony\/settlement of Betar Illit and the Palestinian villages of Husan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":7,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[851,852,854,952,489,855,856,857,815,366,859,860,148],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-4054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-aliyah","tag-batir","tag-betar-illit","tag-checkpoints","tag-discrimination","tag-el-khader","tag-eliyahu","tag-husan","tag-law-of-return","tag-qalqilya","tag-street-sign","tag-wadi-fuqeen","tag-west-bank"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4054"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7708,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions\/7708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4054"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}