The World - News from Sept. 26, 1988
More than a dozen Jewish settler families tried to move onto a patch of land in the West Bank, but soldiers forced them to leave, officials said. After the eviction, about 24 members of the group marched to the Jerusalem home of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, where they set up a palm-roofed booth in protest. The confrontation came as Jews in Israel began the weeklong observance of Succot, which marks the Israelites’ wanderings in the desert after their biblical exodus from Egypt.
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