Four Mothers organization dismantled

Ha’aretz,3.6.00

Members of the Four Mothers movement on Saturday met at Kibbutz Gadot to announce the dismantling of the organization, after their struggle for the withdrawal of the IDF from south Lebanon was crowned successful.

The organization_s chairwoman, Rachel David, said it was fitting the organization should be dismantled in the same place it was conceived, after the 1997 disaster that claimed the life of 73 soldiers and officers when two Yasur helicopters en route to Lebanon crashed to the ground.

Prime Minister Ehud Barak on Friday told representatives of the organization that the plans for a withdrawal were not only election promises, but a realization that the IDF_s presence in south Lebanon gave Israel no security advantage. (Itim)