Nadia Matar

Nadia Matar (Pikovitch) (; born February 16, 1966) is an Israeli right-wing activist. She has been called by some admirers "the settlers' Joan of Arc". She is, together with Yehudit Katsover, the co-chairwoman of the right-wing organization She hosts a settler radio show. Unification of the land for her means, ultimately, all the land from "the Nile to the Euphrates". In her view, Israel's Peace Treaty with Egypt, and the restitution of the Sinai, was a "tragic mistake". Recently, she called Palestinian building on, and use of, the land in the West Bank "agricultural jihad", while arguing for an annexation of the same area, with an extension of equal rights to Palestinians, on condition that they sign a loyalty oath to Israel and serve in the IDF.

She is a leading figure in an apparent attempt to create a settlement, called Shdema, at Ush al-Ghrab ("Crow's Nest") in Beit Sahour, on a local Palestinian park that was, until 2006, an Israeli military base, and where her activism has managed to get the IDF to restore a presence there in the form of a watchtower, and prevent "illegal Arab building".

She regards Tel Aviv as a "baby" (tinoket), compared to the West Bank, and has gone on record as supporting the idea of expelling Israeli Arabs. In an interview with Michael Petrou, she stated: I'm in favour of having a system in which any major decision for this country is taken by a Jewish majority. If that means giving less rights to the Israel Arabs, then yes. Everyone knows that there is another war coming, and in the war, we'll have to do what we have to do to make it clear to them that this is a Jewish state, whether that means expelling them or buying their land or telling them to go to Canada. She imagines that the whole Land of Israel, in which she includes the West Bank, lies under an imperative struggle on the ground, throughout every inch of territory, where "(e)nemies from within and without want to take it from us, and we must not continue with our life's routine. The words routine (shigra) and expulsion (geirush) have the same root." When anchorman Liam Bartlett noted that settlement building is illegal, she replied, "Where should we go? Where should we go? Back to Auschwitz?" In the wake both of the murder of 3 Israeli teenagers, and on the discovery that the revenge murder of a Palestinian boy was perpetrated by Israeli youths, she said the response to the former was to build new outposts and settlements in revenge, one of which is named after them, Givat Oz Ve'Gaon. Asked what she would do were she, a mother of three, in the shoes of a Palestinian mother, she answered that she could not imagine that, since a Palestinian mother is her enemy, adding: "In the law of the jungle, only the strong survive. And we will survive."