A portion of the revised prayer in Hebrew, from the Facebook page of the group My Israel.
The main umbrella group of Jewish settlers in the West Bank, the Yesha Council of Communities in Judea and Samaria, has added controversial new language to an ancient prayer that it will distribute to synagogues in advance of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Tuesday meeting with President Barack Obama in Washington.
The traditional Wayfarers prayer is recited by observant Jews when traveling on long journeys. The Yesha Council’s version of the prayer asks God to grant Netanyahu the strength to say "enough already" regarding what it calls pressure to make concessions in the Mideast peace process.
The prayer goes on to say that the summit in Washington should be an awakening for Jews that "we have no other nation".
The Director General of the Yesha Council, Naftali Bennet, said the new prayer is partly satirical but that it has a serious message. "The Israeli public feels that President Obama is coercing Netanyahu and Israel into concessions that are risking the very existence of Israel," he said.
When asked why he was bringing religion into a political context Bennet told CNN "The land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people for four thousand years by the most fundamental book in the world—the Bible.”
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