Whereas the Rabbinical Assembly has long been committed to the Zionist goal articulated in Israel's Declaration of Independence to "ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex" and
Whereas the Negev, according to the Torah, was the site of the very first peaceful resolution to a land dispute--the agreement between Abraham and Lot—as well as later land treaties with Avimelech; and