Among the first Afrikaner converts to make aliyah were the Taljaards from Randfontein, a gold-mining city near Johannesburg. They came in the mid-1990s and began raising sheep in the settlement of Susya, where they were often involved in violent clashes with Palestinians from nearby villages in the South Hebron Hills.
I wonder what happened in the mid 90s in South Africa that might explain this move.
Jacob, the eldest of 14 children in the family, was killed in a tractor accident several years ago. He once famously told an Israeli television reporter that he “loved” the apartheid system and thought it was “the best thing in the world.”
Well, there it is. Where’s the Apartheid? Ask the fucking white guy from South Africa. He seems to know where it is!
His younger sister Sarie moved to […] a place near her younger sister in the West Bank settlement of Ma’aleh Michmash, she moved to Ra’anana, where she found steady work.
She has one older brother who still lives in Susya, another in the nearby settlement of Beit Yatir, an older sister in the settlement of Einav, in the northern West Bank
It’s a whole family affair, it would seem. It doesn’t seem to be a mystery at all as to why white South Africans would want move to Israel.
Some converted to Judaism and moved to occupied Palestine
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2021-09-30/ty-article/.highlight/cleansed-by-the-torah-why-these-afrikaners-became-jews-and-moved-to-israel/0000017f-e2bb-d9aa-afff-fbfb151f0000
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I wonder what happened in the mid 90s in South Africa that might explain this move.
Well, there it is. Where’s the Apartheid? Ask the fucking white guy from South Africa. He seems to know where it is!
It’s a whole family affair, it would seem. It doesn’t seem to be a mystery at all as to why white South Africans would want move to Israel.