{"id":6943,"date":"2013-05-03T01:34:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T07:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=6943"},"modified":"2013-05-03T01:34:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T07:34:48","slug":"outpost-established-in-name-of-slain-settler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/outpost-established-in-name-of-slain-settler\/","title":{"rendered":"Outpost established in name of slain settler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (JTA) &#8212; A West Bank outpost was established in memory of a Jewish father of five killed by a Palestinian assailant.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Samaria Regional Council, Gershon Mesika, on Thursday moved his office to a tent on a hill overlooking the Tapuach Junction, where Evyatar Borovsky, 31, of the Yitzhar settlement, was killed Tuesday morning as he waited for a bus.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6944\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Evyatar-Borovsky.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6944\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6944 lazyload\" title=\"Evyatar Borovsky\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Evyatar-Borovsky-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Evyatar-Borovsky-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Evyatar-Borovsky.jpg 431w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 241px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 241\/300;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6944\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6944 \" title=\"Evyatar Borovsky\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Evyatar-Borovsky-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Evyatar-Borovsky-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Evyatar-Borovsky.jpg 431w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-6944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stabbing victim Evyatar Borosky (Photo courtesy JNS.org)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A wooden structure was constructed at the site of a former army base and portable bathrooms were moved there, according to The Jerusalem Post. A large sign in Hebrew reads Eviatar.<\/p>\n<p>Mesika told Israeli media he will work daily at the new outpost. He told The Jerusalem Post that he would make sure there is a constant presence at the site until families can be moved in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Zionist response is to deepen Jewish roots in the land,&#8221; Mesika told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The assailant, who is in Israeli custody, also took Borovsky&#8217;s gun and began shooting at Border Guard officers.<\/p>\n<p>Following the attack, a group of Yitzhar residents set fields afire and threw stones at a Palestinian school bus. At least 15 Jewish settlers were arrested for violence against Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Several hundred people attended Borovsky&#8217;s funeral. Later, a photo of one of his young sons hugging his lifeless body draped in a prayer shawl went viral on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>In January, a 17-year-old Israeli was stabbed at the same junction.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Outpost%20established%20in%20name%20of%20slain%20settler\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2667,8781,8790,8795,8788,2669,2668],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6946,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943\/revisions\/6946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}