HaBayit HaLeumi
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HaBayit HaLeumi is an organization based in Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 dedicated to stopping former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon is an Israeli statesman and retired general, who served as Israel’s 11th Prime Minister. He has been in a permanent vegetative state since suffering a stroke on 4 January 2006....

's disengagement plan
Israel's unilateral disengagement plan
Israel's unilateral disengagement plan , also known as the "Disengagement plan", "Gaza expulsion plan", and "Hitnatkut", was a proposal by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, adopted by the government on June 6, 2004 and enacted in August 2005, to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from...

. The organization was behind civil disobedience
Civil disobedience
Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. Civil disobedience is commonly, though not always, defined as being nonviolent resistance. It is one form of civil resistance...

 protesting the disengagement plan of Mr. Sharon.

On Monday, May 16, 2005, a nonviolent protest was held throughout the country, with the protesters blocking major traffic arteries throughout Israel. The protest was sponsored by HaBayit HaLeumi, and was hailed by them as a success, with over 400 protesters arrested, half of them juveniles. Over 40 intersections throughout the country were blocked, including:
  • The entrance to Jerusalem
  • Bar Ilan/Shmuel Hanavi junction in Jerusalem
  • Sultan's Pool
    Sultan's Pool
    The Sultan's Pool is an ancient water basin by the west side of Mount Zion. It was part of the water supply network for Jerusalem from antiquity to late Ottoman Empire times. During the Crusaders times it was known as Lacus Germani.Currently it is dry in summer and used for concerts and festivals....

     junction outside the Old City of Jerusalem
  • Geha Highway
  • Golumb St. corner of Begin Blvd. in Jerusalem


The protest was hailed as a success by the organization, even though the two heads of the organization, Ariel Wengrover and Shai Malka, were arrested on Monday morning before any of the protests started.

Wengrover and Malka have been kept in prison since their arrest, as they are considered a threat to the well-being of the community, and will be kept in prison until the end of the disengagement. At an anti-disengagement meeting in the Ramada Renaissance Hotel in Jerusalem, one of the speakers commented tongue-in-cheek that the two have unfortunately been given "life sentences".

The organization draws upon the experience of Moshe Feiglin
Moshe Feiglin
Moshe Zalman Feiglin is an Israeli politician, head of the Manhigut Yehudit faction of the Likud party in Israel...

 and Zo Artzeinu
Zo Artzeinu
Zo Artzeinu was a political protest movement created and led by Moshe Feiglin and Shmuel Sackett in Israel to block Israeli land concessions to the Arabs in the early 1990s, especially the Oslo Accords...

, the organization that led mass protests against the 1992 Oslo Accords
Oslo Accords
The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles , was an attempt to resolve the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict...

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