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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Now they are trying to settle on 127 hectares (313 acres) of land provided by the government on the outskirts of Ricaurte, a small town in the south-western province of Narino.

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