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Avraham "Avri" Ran, known as the father of the “Hilltop Youth” movement, was born in 1955 in Nir Hen. He lives on the West Bank, is a noted entrepreneur and a guide for the radical settler movement. ==Life== In the period of his service with the Israeli army (the IDF), he served in an elite operations unit, the Sayeret Matkal. He and his wife Sharona – who had immigrated to Israel from the United States when she was four years old – both grew up in secular Jewish homes. They later became strictly religious. The couple has ten children. In 1993, Ran moved with his family to the Jewish community of Itamar, not far from Shechem. In 1997, he ventured beyond the community's borders and pitched his tent on an open, windswept hill more than four kilometers east of Itamar. In 1998, his wife Sharona and the children joined him and they formally named their new settlement Giv'ot Olam ''(Hills of Eternity)''. At that time, some claimed he had trespassed both on land that Arabs from a village called Yanun claimed as their own and on Israeli state lands, and attacked any Arab who ventured on the property.〔Chaim Levinson, ( Israeli 'hilltop youth' accuse their former hero of stealing settlers' land ), at Haaretz, 31 January 2013.〕 The sprawling farm complex they built produces and markets organic eggs, cheese and other locally grown foodstuffs sold under the logo “Giv'ot Olam”. In March 1995, Ran was arrested and charged with assaulting an Arab farmer who plowed a tractor onto land Ran claimed he owned. He was ordered to be put in house arrest far from his home but soon disappeared, only later to be captured and jailed for five months until the case was closed without conviction. Months earlier, he had been convicted of attacking an Israeli-Arab and was sentenced to a six-month suspended sentence. In January 2006, the judge – ruling that she could not establish Ran's claim to the land – instead acquitted him and two other defendants, saying that the Arab claimant's testimony was unreliable. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Avri Ran」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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