05.01.2012                      10.Tewet. 5772                      Fasttag im Tewet

Sicherheitszaun:

New segment of West Bank security fence may separate nuns from monks

The separation fence could divide the nuns from the monks at the Cremisan monastery, giving new meaning to gender segregation.

The monks and nuns of the Cremisan monastery, on a pastoral ridge opposite Har Gilo, have been living peacefully, side by side, since the place was built in the 1960s. But a new segment of the separation fence Israel is building will not only bisect the Cremisan's verdant terraces, but could also separate the inhabitants of this Salesian order, leaving the nuns on the West Bank side of the barrier, and the monks on the Israeli side. That, at least, is the solution the Defense Ministry recently proposed to the members of the Catholic monastery.
The fence hasn't physically split the men from the women yet, but it has already caused a rift between them….