David Wilder is an American leader of

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and the

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for The Committee of The Jewish Community of

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History

David Wilder was born in

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in the United States in 1954, and graduated from

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with a BA in History and teacher certification in 1976. He went to Israel in 1974 and studied in Yeshiva for over eight years. He worked at Yeshivat Shavei Hebron in a

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capacity. He has worked at

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and

Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav Mercaz HaRav (officially, , "The Center of Rabbi

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- the Central Universal Yeshiva") is a religious Zionist, national-religious (Hardal) yeshiva in Jerusalem, founded in 1924 by Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. ...

. For the Israeli settlers of Hebron, he is the

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for the community, in Israel and internationally. David Wilder announced his resignation from the Hebron Community organization, effective April 1, 2015. Presently he is Executive Director of Eretz.Org.

Activism

David Wilder has spoken on behalf of the Israeli settlers of Hebron and has been an activist for their interest for 21 years. When the legality of the Beit HaShalom community's ownership of their living quarters was questioned, Wilder was active in speaking out on behalf of the community. When ''

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'' talked with him, they wrote that he was certain that the community "had a strong claim to the structure." An interview with David Wilder by an Egyptian-Belgian journalist was published in May 2012. His op-ed piece concerning the expulsion from Beit HaShalom was published in ''The Jerusalem Post''.

Publications

David Wilder has published a number of Ebooks which can be found at hi
website.
These include: Hebron Chronicles, Breaking the Lies, Sites in Hebron and more. He has also produced a number of apps for android which can be foun
here

Family

David Wilder is the son of the late Samuel and Pamela Wilder, and is married to Ora Wilder. They lived in the Israeli settlement

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for 17 years and as of 2013 have lived at

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for 17 years. They have seven children and many grandchildren.

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