These areas include the Etzion, Adumim, Adam, Ofra and Ariel settlement blocs and the Jordan Valley.

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Sharon convened his security cabinet at the West Bank settlement of Ofra, where the settler was killed in an ambush on Tuesday.

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Ofra's rabbi even issued a religious edict that the commandment to settle the land overrides the prohibition on making non-Jewish employees work on the Sabbath, so that construction workers could build round the clock.

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