Vision fulfillment: A state heritage site will be announced in the Jordan Valley

As far back as 2017, a geocartography survey examining the position of the Jordan Valley in Israeli public opinion showed that 67% of respondents believe that the sovereignty of the Jordan Valley should not be waived, a percentage that only goes up. The Mivtachim Forum seeks to sharpen the region's connection to Jewish history and heritage

The Jordan Valley, an integral part of the State of Israel (Photo: Mivtahi forum)

Uzi Dayan in the Jordan Valley (Photo: Mivtahi forum, PR)

The Jordan Valley that made headlines in the past week has been on the agenda of former Knesset Member Uzi Dayan for almost two decades. The publication of the American "Century Deal" over the weekend, which also includes recognition of the Jordan Valley as an integral part of the State of Israel, is largely a vision of the vision that Dayan and his fellow members of the "Insurers" forum have been working on for two decades.

The Insurers forum includes some of the top names in the military, political and economic system. The purpose of the forum is to shape policy in the coming years from a conservative Zionist worldview. As mentioned above, the forum is headed by the champion. Uzi Dayan, including Gen. Gershon Cohen, Brigadier General Oded Tira President of the Manufacturers Association, Brigadier General Yossi Kupervser, Head of the Military Research Division, Brigadier General Ilan Katz, Former US Ambassadors Dr. Dori Gold And Zalman Shoval, Nobel Laureate Prof. Israel Oman and many others.

When forum members began discussing the Jordan Valley a few years ago, public opinion polls said that only about 14% of the Israeli population thinks that Jordan should be the eastern border of the State of Israel. The completely opposite image of the current Israeli consciousness regarding the exact same question illustrates how the change is taking place.

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Sovereignty should not be waived (Photo: Mivtah Forum)

Uzi Dayan in the Jordan Valley (Photo: Mivtahi forum, PR)

From the Jordanian passages and not Kasser to Judah

Already in 2017, a geocartography survey examining the status of the Jordan Valley in Israeli public opinion showed that 67% of respondents believe that the sovereignty of the Jordan Valley should not be waived under a future arrangement. According to Dayan, these percentages are only rising. Dayan and his friends seek to secure this recognition through a move that will sharpen the link between the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea to Jewish and heritage history.

As part of this, they have been operating for two years to declare Kasser al-Yehud, the Christian baptism site near the Coral Junction at the Dead Sea, as a state heritage site called the Jordan Crossings. The site, beyond being identified in the Christian faith as the place where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, is known as the place where the Israelites crossed the Jordan upon entering Israel.

"An absurd situation was created in which the Arabs called the place 'the Jewish palace', while the Jews called the place by its Arab name," says Dayan. "About 750,000 Christians from around the world come to this site every year, whose original name is the Jordan Crossings. Soon, the State Names Committee will participate in my participation to restore its original name, highlighting the historical fact that this is where the Israelites crossed the Jordan when they entered. In addition, the plan includes the development of the site and the establishment of a comprehensive visitor center, hotel and tourist services that will enable the growth of tourism in this area of ​​the country, and a monument is also being erected in the form of 12 stones, commemorating the 12 stones they set across the Jordan after their feet touched the land ".

"A strategy must contain values, history, identity" (Photo: Insurer Forum)

Jordan Valley Uzi Dayan (Photo: Mivtahi forum, PR)

First Ascension Day

"People ask me why it's so important to me to develop the place and site of the Jordan Crossings," Uzi Dayan says. "Seemingly security-strategic, we have achieved what we wanted, so why bother with setting up visitor and hotel centers now? The answer is that strategy must contain values, History, identity, and reference to the natural and human spheres cannot be led by any one of them. Today there is not a single visitor center in the Jordan Valley, a large public place to stay or one stop for lunch, and this is an area with a potential of 2 million. Visitors in the year: In 2048, the population of Israel will number about 20 million people There are only 6,000 people, most of them engaged in agriculture, which is a land area that will double 20 times in the next three decades, and these people will have to make a living, and tourism is a major sector.

Parallel to the development of the Jordan Crossings site, the Forum has for several years been leading the "First Day of Immigration", marking me in Nissan, the day that Israel crossed the Jordan with Israel under the leadership of Joshua Ben Nun and entered Israel 3292 years ago.
"This year, we will mark the April 2 immigration mark of senior state personality status," he says. "We hope that President Rivlin will honor the status and are preparing for the arrival of another 1,000 people to the Jordan Crossing site. In the future, hope that this date will now be recognized as a state mark for anything that strengthens the heritage, settlement and Zionist idea. I hope that the historic opportunity presented to us these days "In this respect, I wish and hope the success of all US delegates to meet with President Trump, Israel's most sympathetic US President of all time."