Judy Maltz, 'Cleansed by the Torah': Why These Afrikaners Converted to Judaism and Moved to IsraelHaaretz 30 September 2021:'Like many Orthodox Jews, they also tend to be quite right-wing in their politics. It is no coincidence, then, that many have ended up living in West Bank settlements. Indeed, one of their main strongholds – aside from Ra'anana, which is popular among South African immigrants in general, and more recently the rural community of Yavne'el in northern Israel – is the settlement of Susya in the South Hebron Hills. . .Among the first Afrikaner converts to make aliyah were the Taljaards from Randfontein, a gold-mining city near Johannesburg. They came in the mid-1990s and began raising sheep in the settlement of Susya, where they were often involved in violent clashes with Palestinians from nearby villages in the South Hebron Hills. Jacob, the eldest of 14 children in the family, was killed in a tractor accident several years ago. He once famously told an Israeli television reporter that he “loved” the apartheid system and thought it was “the best thing in the world.”'
