Mishkei Herut Beitar ( Hebrew : משקי חרות בית"ר ) is a revisionist Zionist settlement movement in Israel , affiliated with Beitar and Likud . It is based in the Metzudat Ze'ev offices on King George Street in Tel Aviv .
5-582: Early Mishkei Herut Beitar settlements were established by members of the Platoon of the Wall brigade of Beitar. The first was Ramat Tyomkin (now part of Netanya ) in 1932, followed by Tel Tzur near Zikhron Ya'akov . The movement was affiliated with the Herut party, which later merged into Likud . Due to ideological differences with other settlements, most of which were affiliated with Labor Zionism , in one case
10-625: A separate regional council, Alona , was created for the three Herut Beitar settlements in Haifa District . Many of the organisation's settlements were built in the 1980s, most of which are Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Golan Heights . Israeli settlement Former members include Neot Sinai , an abandoned Israeli settlement in the Sinai Peninsula and Ganim , Homesh and Kadim , abandoned settlements in
15-681: The West Bank . Platoon of the Wall The Platoon of the Wall ( Plugat Hakotel, Hebrew: פלוגת הכותל) was a group made up of Betar members in Mandatory Palestine that defended the rights of Jews at the Western Wall in the years 1937-1938, and guarded the Old City using concealed stores of arms and clubs and accompanied Jewish worshipers to and from the Western Wall . Members were also responsible for
20-597: The blowing of the shofar at the Western Wall, which was deemed illegal by the British authorities. On the evening of October 29, 1937, as a result of Arabs shooting at such a group, one Jew was killed and three wounded. A street in the Old City of Jerusalem is named in its honor, "Plugat HaKotel Street". On May 15, 2018 the Beit Plugat HaKotel (lit. 'Platoon of the [Western] Wall House') museum
25-632: Was inaugurated at a special ceremony in the Old City of Jerusalem. The building was used as the Plugat HaKotel headquarters. It was later used to house IDF soldiers for special programming and for tour groups, specifically from the Betar youth group to which the original Plugat HaKotel members belonged. 97-year-old Yaakov (Sika) Aharoni, the last original member was in attendance and met with present-day Betar youth. This article relating to
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