{"id":50907,"date":"2017-03-16T17:05:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T15:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=50907"},"modified":"2017-03-16T13:07:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T11:07:56","slug":"21-05-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=50907","title":{"rendered":"From living with an Arab to anti-assimilation activist"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>From living with an Arab to anti-assimilation activist<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Eliran Aharon,<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The story of Coral Ben-Shabbat, the innocent girl who fell in love with an Arab and, several years later, joined the Lehava group.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"CoralCoral Ben-Shabbat<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Coral Ben-Shabbat, coordinator for the anti-assimilation group Lehava, spoke with Arutz Sheva about the long and winding road she passed before joining the ranks of the organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt the age of 13 I met an Arab. At first I didn\u2019t know that he was an Arab, but even after I did know it didn\u2019t bother me. He promised that he would convert,\u201d Ben-Shabbat related. \u201cI promised my parents that I was finished with him, but then I decided to run away to him. His family received me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At that stage, Ben-Shabbat\u2019s family came to Arab\u2019s house to rescue Ben-Shabbat, but her Arab boyfriend and his family members started stabbing them with knives.<\/span><\/p>\n

And you still continued to live with him?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI continued to live with him for a week-and-a-half. He explained that [Ben-Shabbat\u2019s family] had attacked him first, and I paid a lawyer to bail him out. I covered for him when he was fleeing the police. And then Lehava turned to me and convinced me, and helped me to get out of there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

How does a Jewish girl end up going out with an Arab?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe live together with them. Girls don\u2019t see anything bad in it […they] don\u2019t see the severity of going out with an Arab, don\u2019t see what the end of it all will be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When Lehava turned to you, how did you decide to go with them instead of your boyfriend?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Rabbi of the organization explained to me what would happen, and they opened my eyes to what I didn\u2019t see before.<\/span><\/p>\n

How did you separate from him?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI told him that I wanted to leave. I set out and traveled to Eilat. After a year during which he looked for me I returned to Nahariya, and then I joined the organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

You left your life and turned to the other side, to the Lehava organization?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the beginning it was hard for me when I spoke with girls and tried to convince them. I still loved him. I, myself, didn\u2019t believe it because I still loved him, so how could I convince others? But the understanding that it was a mitzvah and I could help others – this is my significance in life.<\/span><\/p>\n

How is your connection with your family?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe connection is good, even though I know that they still haven\u2019t forgiven me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

They talk about Lehava like it\u2019s an \u201cextremist\u201d organization. What would you want people to know about this organization which they don\u2019t know?<\/span><\/p>\n

We don\u2019t just rescue a girl and a week later tell her to apologize. We accompany her for a year or two, until she gets married. We are not a racist group, we just don\u2019t want Jewish girls to go out with Arabs and live with them in their villages if they can go out with Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n

Did you ever imagine that you would one day be speaking the way you are now?<\/span><\/p>\n

No. I was a leftist. I loved Arabs and I saw Lehava as the worst thing there is. Today, I see the organization as the best thing there is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

What message would you like to give to girls reading this interview?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn general, girls that I come to take out tell me, \u2018My Arab is different.\u2019 In the end, after you marry him, reality will change. He can treat you well, but the minute you are his, everything changes.<\/span><\/p>\n

You didn\u2019t just join the organization – you are active in it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I speak with the girls and try to uplift them. I speak to them as a professional and uplift them, I suggest to every girl that is stuck to contact the organization and know that the door is open to everyone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Chairman of Lehava Bentzi Gopshtain, noted, \u201cthe core of the quiet activity of Lehava is saving and rehabilitating the daughters of Israel. Coral Ben-Shabbat has merited to save dozens of girls who fell into relationships with Arabs […] I call on anyone who knows a girl in danger of assimilation to contact Lehava. We will do whatever we can to help her.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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From living with an Arab to anti-assimilation activist Eliran Aharon, The story of Coral Ben-Shabbat, the innocent girl who fell in love with an Arab and, several years later, joined the Lehava group. Coral Ben-Shabbat Coral Ben-Shabbat, coordinator for the anti-assimilation group Lehava, spoke with Arutz Sheva about the long and winding road she passed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50907"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50916,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50907\/revisions\/50916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}