By Josh Hasten
Israeli brothers Hilel Menachem and Yagel Yaakov Yaniv were gunned down by a terrorist at point-blank range as they drove on Route 60 through the Arab village.
The murdered brothers would be buried side by side in the Har Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem.
In addition, over 1,000 units were approved throughout Gush Etzion.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Amid U.S. pressure, Jerusalem reportedly will freeze for several months the legalization of additional young settlements in Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. State Department describes UAE-backed resolution as ‘unhelpful’ ahead of crucial Ukraine vote.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Defense Ministry body's responsibilities include approving construction in Area C of Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
While Washington's response is “understandable,” the Americans know that Israel’s government is “committed to the settlements,” said Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir demanded that settlements be approved following the Neve Yaakov terror attack.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The coalition agreement between Likud and the Religious Zionism Party requires the government to reverse parts of the disengagement and allow for the Homesh Yeshiva to remain as a first step towards rebuilding the four communities.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly made the request during his visit last week to Israel in a bid to de-escalate tensions amid rampant PA Arab terrorism.
The community will have 500 residents.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The number of Jews in the area is forecast to exceed a million by 2047.
There are reports of yet another terror attack. This one is currently taking place near the entrance Kedumim.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has been tasked with overseeing the body responsible for approving construction and handling other bureaucratic matters in Area C of Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Yuli Edelstein and Tom Nides speak about settlements, Iran and bilateral ties.
The Gush offers new immigrants: Hebrew ulpan classes, special gatherings and events, trips, and events focused on the 60+ community.
By Josh Hasten
Israeli Minister Orit Strock: We must correct the “injustice and idiocy” of the 2005 disengagement.
This legislation has no special connection to the LGBT, just as it has no special connection to Islam, or to skin color.
By Josh Hasten
Heartland Initiative builds bridges between Jewish, Druze communities and the Long Island village.
“I was astounded to observe the scope of the activity of left-wing organizations and international antisemitic organizations in Hebron,” Schlissel said.
Friedman told his hosts: “I give you much respect that you are beautifully building the Land of Israel. Keep up this important project. I’m sorry I didn’t visit this place sooner.”
Ravshatz is more than a full-time position and it certainly is not a 9-to-5 kind of job.
A security guard has been shot and wounded in a terror attack near the entrance to Maaleh Adumim, located outside of Jerusalem, towards the Dead Sea.
Arab rioters were seen on cameras Wednesday afternoon throwing a Molotov cocktail at the town of Neve Tzuf.
By Josh Hasten
All search results for accommodation in Judea and Samara include a "conflict-afflicted" advisory.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Footprints of five terrorists found at the scene of the attack led to the nearby Arab village of Safa.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides said, “We do not support settlement growth. I made that position quite clear to the government."
And on Wednesday night, over 60 bullets were shot at the town.
Tefilat Hanna is a women’s event with only women participating, who held a group prayer session.
Three M16 type weapons were also seized which were apparently used in the shooting attack.
Some 60 bullet casings were found near the Har Bracha shooting.
2 candidates for the head of the administration and 3 lists for the plenum are competing in the elections.
The terrorist has not yet been captured.
Neeman is the mayor of Gush Etzion.
A terrorist was apprehended approaching the southern gate of Kibbutz Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion, armed with a firebomb.
Rabbi Moshe Lichtenstein opened the event thanking God for the momentous occasion.
No one was injured in the attack.
Thousands came to hear Ishay Ribo and the Eastern Gush Etzion Youth Orchestra.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The woke ice cream company sued parent company Unilever for transferring production rights to Israeli company.
The army has not taken down the illegal Arab construction near Efrat or the illegal Bedouin shanty town of Khan al-Ahmar.
The community built 15 buildings including a shul and a yeshiva.
The building is being called the "House of Liberty" or Beit Cheirut in Hebrew.
One Efrat home was hit by a dozen bullets.
Nadav intends to continue setting aside time for Torah every single day, despite the demanding upcoming military service.
The settlement prevents Ben & Jerry’s from boycotting Israel and ensures that Zinger will continue selling Ben & Jerry’s ice cream throughout Israel and Judea and Samaria without interruption.
It's cherry-picking season in Israel, and that means it's time once again for Arabs to try and burn down Jewish-owned cherry orchards in Gush Etzion.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Arabs began wearing the M-16 logo after the Bnei Brak terror attack, as a show of support for the terrorists.
"We have a particular bond in modern times with the Druze people.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The current leadership is putting itself on the wrong side of Zionist history.
The event reportedly happened at the entrance to Ofarim.
No one was in the structure that was attacked at the time of the incident.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A report projects that Jewish residents in Judea and Samaria will grow to more than 1 million by 2046.
Jonathan currently serves as an IDF soldier with an outstanding athlete status, meaning he can continue to train professionally while serving.
By Josh Hasten
“We need infrastructure for both populations, so we can all thrive,” said Matanya Shapira, deputy CEO of the YESHA Council, regarding the region’s Jewish and Arab residents.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The new apartments will be located in the Nofei Sela East area and will include three, four, and five-room apartments and 170 homes with gardens and land for public institutions.
It was exposed that European funding was sent to leftwing organizations to demonize Israeli citizens.
The decision is also likely to facilitate a favorable government vote on the issue of security jurisdiction, currently in limbo over a dispute between the IDF and the Border Police.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We are in a struggle for the continuation of the Zionist enterprise,” says a spokesperson for “Ma’ale Paula,” named after the wife of Israel’s first prime minister.
"I immediately recognized him and realized that he was my close friend of many years."
A massive demonstration held Thursday night outside the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem marked four weeks since the murder of Yehuda Dimentman in a terrorist attack outside of Homesh in Samaria. Dimentman, who studied at the yeshiva there, died after he was shot in the neck. Two other people were wounded in the attack. Dimentman […]
Jeremy Gimpel was #13 on Naftali Bennett's list when Bennett first entered politics in Bayit Yehudi.
Dagan accused Bennett’s government of “losing direction, it is losing it in Samaria, it is losing it in the Negev.”
“While Rabbi Riskin defended halachic practice without compromise, he succeeded in revealing religion’s beauty to countless Jews."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The march comes amid rumors that the government plans to destroy the yeshiva at Homesh and ban all Israeli entry to the area.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Rabbi Cohen has been teaching at Homesh for several years and has never been arrested.
Dagan said that the videos of Sunday’s incident circulated by an IDF spokesman show that there was no settler violence.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Government of Israel must properly establish the Yeshiva of Chomesh in Samaria “as an answer to the murder,” said Etya Dimentman, the widow of Yehuda Dimentman.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), who recently visited Israel on a J Street-sponsored trip, is leading an effort expressing “immense concern” over plans to build 3,400 new apartments.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The congressmen had just visited with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh.
Illegal Arab construction directed by the Fayyad plan is strangling the Jewish communities.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Biden administration said it is “engaging with our Israeli partners at very senior levels conveying this message.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It's funny how the Europeans think they have any moral authority.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Left-wing members of the coalition were unhappy with the announcement.
This terror attack failed... spectacularly.
An agreement was reached between Meshek Achiya farm and Defense Minister Gantz.
Demolition orders like the one for Arugot Farm’s vineyard are just one way the Bennett-Lapid government is moving toward establishing a hostile Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“Israel will continue the standard policy of natural growth,” Bennett said.
It is believed the arsonists came from nearby Beit Fajr.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The destruction is expected to uproot about 170 dunams of orchards and vineyards in the Shiloh Valley, which constitute about 40% of the agricultural activity of the Achiya Farm industries, which cultivates the land.
Rabbi Rimon, 53, from Alon Shvut, who is one of the Yeshivat Har Etzion rabbis, was appointed as Gush Etzion’s chief rabbi. Gush Etzion Regional Council Head Shlomo Ne’eman said: “We congratulate Rabbi Rimon - his successes will be the successes of the council and all of our residents.”
The European Union's funding of illegal Arab construction in Area C of Judea and Samaria is a path to establishing a de facto Palestinian state.
“Left-wing activists abuse country-of-origin labels in order to stigmatize products made in Israel.”
The town of Mizpeh Yericho wanted to say thank you to Avi Zinger for standing up to Ben & Jerry's BDS assault.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Left-wing activists abuse county-of-origin labels in order to stigmatize products made in Israel,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said in a release. “Our bill will defend the integrity of the Jewish state by ensuring that Israeli products may proudly bear the label ‘Made in Israel.’”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Report: Bennett and Gantz are refusing to hold a meeting of the Supreme Planning Council in Judea and Samaria, due to a demand from Washington.
Dagan is the most threatened municipality head in Israel.
By Josh Hasten
Some view the approvals as a positive development; others expressed disappointment, indicating that the 31 new projects—with just five residential homes—fall far short of expectations.
Residents of Evyatar are keep up their end of the deal with the government and are packing up to leave, to hand over the keys to the town to the IDF.
Arab residents of Beita have been busy attacking the Jewish community of Evyatar.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In Jerusalem’s Old City, prominent religious-Zionist rabbis pray the incoming government won’t “abandon the Land of Israel to the Arab takeover.”
For Head Coach Gewirtz this is the culmination of the many years he played youth and men’s basketball for the city.
Ze'ev Elkin threatened to blow up the coalition if a new, independent office for overseeing Area C isn't created.
"Unfortunately, our efforts were unsuccessful and she was pronounced dead at the scene."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The neighborhood being built will be named “Neve Achiad” after Rabbi Achiad Ettinger z"l.
Netanyahu blamed the (failed) rotation government on the failure to regulate the settlements in this last government.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Some 120,000 PA Arabs will be vaccinated by Israeli medical teams with Moderna vaccines, which have been allocated by the state, at eight different locations throughout Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The appeal comes in response to a request by left-wing Jewish groups to rescind the directive put in place by the Trump administration.
By Josh Hasten
Brian Finkel reached out to Dubai-based Al Barakah Dates Factory, and without knowing he lived in Israel, it became his largest supplier. As the relationship grew, the two companies ended up forming a strategic partnership that is becoming representative of the region.
The Palestinian Authority warned Arabs to not be tricked by intermediaries trying to buy land on behalf of the Jews.