Despite launching a formidable opposition, dating back to 2008, with left-wingers in the capital opposed to naming a street after late Arutz-7 Radio host Adir Zik Z�L, known for his outspoken criticism against the leftist secular agenda that prevails in many areas of the state.
Despite the opposition, the Jerusalem Naming Committee finally approved naming a street in the Ramat Eshkol area of the city, where he lived, after him. Zik was niftar in 2005, after a long painful illness. His �Adir�s Fireworks� program on Arutz- 7 Radio was extremely popular, and he used the forum to criticize the Oslo process and the politicians who favored giving away areas of Eretz Yisrael to Israel�s enemies. Zik caused a major stir when he began focusing on conspiracy theories regarding the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin.
MKs including Labor�s Ofir Pines was a staunch opponent to honoring Zik, feeling by doing so, and credibility was given to the former �pirate radio station,� namely Arutz-7, which has since been closed by the government.
Zik, who sported a kippa sruga and was clean shaven, was a welcome and familiar face at many a chassidishe tisch; and he was no less familiar in many a litvish yeshiva or yishuv in Yesha. His love for Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael crossed all boundaries, always supporting those who believed in a Torah way of life and recognized the holiness of Eretz Yisrael.
(Yechiel Spira � YWN Israel)
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Hertzl, who initially proposed that all Jews convert to xtianity, has a CITY (and MANY streets) named after him, but it had to be a battle (B”H a victorious one) to name a single street after this Ohaiv Yisrael. Something is wrong with this picture…