{"id":11603,"date":"2011-04-10T21:33:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T04:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=11603"},"modified":"2011-04-12T05:55:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T12:55:56","slug":"young-judea-stand-in-solidarity-for-gilad-shalit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=11603","title":{"rendered":"Young Judaea Stand in Solidarity for Gilad Shalit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11606\" title=\"1small\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1small.jpg 597w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1small-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes words are not enough. Sometimes you have to put yourself out there. On Thursday, April 7, 2011, 300 students on Hadassah\u2019s Young Judaea Year Course stood in solidarity for Gilad Shalit in Zion Square (Kikar Zion) on Ben Yehuda in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kSNHGmFlnCY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kSNHGmFlnCY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The students, young Jews from different countries, spend ten months in Israel studying and volunteering through Young Judaea. For the past month they have participated in a series of lectures and activities organized in recognition of Gilad Shalit\u2019s plight, but Thursday\u2019s action was initiated by the students themselves. At 12:00 the students, holding placards in support of Shalit, received a simultaneous sms, yelled \u201cHazilu\u201d (Hebrew: save\/help) and froze for five minutes. These young people, close in age to Gilad Shalit who is now in his fifth year of captivity, evoke the intolerable pain of a young person separated from family, friends and home, a young person who should be out discovering the world and his place in it and is, instead, \u201cfrozen,\u201d caught in the midst of this intolerable political situation.<\/p>\n<p>Benji Lovitt interviewed Ayal Pierce from New Jersey, U.S. and Gilad Amvaleg from Glasgow, Scotland, two of 250 Young Judaean\/FZY Year Course participants, about their involvement in the solidarity freeze for Gilat Shalit in Jerusalem:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IU2p63abHAc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IU2p63abHAc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes words are not enough. Sometimes you have to put yourself out there. On Thursday, April 7, 2011, 300 students on Hadassah\u2019s Young Judaea Year Course stood in solidarity for Gilad Shalit in Zion Square (Kikar Zion) on Ben Yehuda in Jerusalem. The students, young Jews from different countries, spend ten months in Israel studying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}