The recent movement in Jordan to obtain the release of the terrorist who shot and killed 7 girls from Bet Shemesh has also drawn the involvement of the mayor of Bet Shemesh, Moshe Abutbol.

Mayor Moshe Abutbol has sent a letter to King Abdullah of Jordan requesting that he reject the petition for the terrorists release.

Ladaat reported on the text of the letter: Abutbol wrote the letter and sent it via the Jordanian Ambassador to Israel. In it he wrote:
the repugnant attack in the Isle of Peace in Naharayim, is a wound that still bleeds for the people of Bet Shemesh, despite the many years that have passed the intensity of the pain has not diminished. It is shocking to think that there are those who seek to free the abominable murderer whose hands are dirty with the blood of our daughters.
Every year on this difficult day, the day on which 7 girls of Bet Shemesh were killed, we come to the place, we meet with representatives of the Jordanian government and with generals from the Jordanian army, we speak again about the pain, about the anger, and about the need to arouse the importance of peace and coexistence between our people, but to much pain, the release of the abominable murderer who killed 7 young girls in cold blood is the opposite of everything we teach, the opposite of everything we seek and is simply a prize for terror in the full capacity of the words. 

Specifically on this day, the day of bereavement and mourning for the loss of our children, the day that is to be a symbol for the entire world, that the blood of our children is not free, and the petition with 110 signatures from members of the parliament for the request to free the murderer of our daughters, is something unimaginable and is something that should upset anybody who is proud of his humanity.

We remember well the visit of King Hussein of Jordan in our city Bet Shemesh when he came to visit us to express his shock and to request forgiveness from the parents of the young students who  went on a trip in the isle of Naharayim and were murdered by a lowly murderer. I request from the honorable ambassador to pass over our great pain in the name of the bereaved families, and in the names of all the residents of Bet Shemesh, and I believe that it is also in the name of all the people of Israel, to King Abdallah of Jordan and to give over to him our request that he will act with vigor to thwart any plot to free the murderer from jail.

I am full of hope that our country and he who stands at the head of it, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the president Shimon Peres, will continue on with their pressure to prevent additional pain to the pain of the families of our city who lost their daughters as a result of this shocking murder. 

The blood of Jews is not hefker.

The blood of Jews is not hefker. What an appropriate message on Yom Ha'Atzmaut. We have a Jewish country specifically to prevent the blood of Jews form being hefker ever again. the blood of Jews being treated as cheap and hefker is one of the greatest desecrations of Gods name in this world. Israel is here to prevent that. For this we have freedom and independence. And for this the soldiers gave so much from themselves over the years to protect us, to show the blood of Jews is no longer hefker, and we remember that on Yom Ha'Zikaron.

the blood of Jews is not hefker.