To watch over the stolen apartments until new full-time residents could arrive, Elad then posted online ads seeking settlers for hire, offering 500 shekels, or about $136 a day, to make sure the people who actually owned and lived in those places didn‘t have the nerve to try to reclaim them. The only requirement: Any settler would have to “keep his gun loaded and ready to fire at any time.” It added, „Only suitable applicants will be accepted.“ The question inevitably arises: Suitable for what?