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By Eliana Rudee
Yaakov Berg, who owns the Psagot Winery with his wife, expresses his hope that “peace with the Emirates will change our relationship with Palestinians.”
This is eco-terrorism, and the official entities that should be responding to it with swift, decisive action are allowing this monumental failure to persist.
After taking his son to the hospital a man collapses just before Shabbat in Efrat leading to a dramatic rescue that saved his life.
"...over the years I have met many ambassadors from many countries, including from the US, our great ally, but I can say that there was never a better ambassador than David Friedman..."
By Israel Hayom
“This is a historic day for Samaria and the entire State of Israel,” says Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan.
"In cooperation with Prime Minister Netanyahu, we are mobilizing in full force to the battle against the hostile takeover of Area C," Hanegbi said.
“It is still possible to correct the mistake made by the Israeli government when it did not keep its promise to apply sovereignty over the Jordan Valley."
The decision on labeling is part of the US's "reality-based foreign policy approach" under President Trump.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Pompeo visited the Psagot Winery in the Shaar Binyamin Commercial Center and the Qasr al-Yahud baptism site in the Jordan River Valley.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
100 Israelis has returned to the forcefully abandoned community of Sa-Nur on Monday night, stating they were there to stay.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It will be part of a 10-day visit by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Europe and the Mideast, starting with France, Turkey and Georgia.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli delegation is being led by Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan • Abbas adviser Nabil Shaath says the visit is “painful to witness.”
Local Jewish leaders commend the move to permit the first new housing since 2002, which they hope will attract young couples to the city, while an anti-settlement NGO argues that permits are illegal. A court hearing is scheduled for Jan. 31.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Kamala Harris said the Biden-Harris administration would oppose annexation and settlement expansion, and reverse Trump's steps against the Palestinian Authority.
By HaKol HaYehudi / Yehuda Pearl
The past week saw more than 40 terrorist incidents, with 4 wounded, including 2 IDF soldiers.
By HaKol HaYehudi / Yehuda Pearl
Quietly, a planting event conducted with PA regional governor accompanied by gunman, without coordination with the IDF.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The number of settlement homes approved in 2020 is more than 12,150.
A celebration in Gush Etzion: Around 1,100 housing units approved as part of construction plans for Pnei Kedem, Kfar Eldad, Metzad, and Har Gilo.
By Ariel Kahana
UAE Foreign Ministry director of policy planning says historic U.S.-Israeli delegation visit to Abu Dhabi was “promising,” but much work still remains.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The repeated postponement of the Planning Council meetings creates a long-term chain reaction resulting in a de facto freezing of construction in the Israeli communities in Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley and stopping the development of the communities.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Coalition Chairman Miki Zohar (Likud) and Member of Knesset (MK) Betzalel Smotrich have introduced a bill to repeal the 2005 Disengagement Law from northern Samaria “to correct the injustice.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
In the summer of 2005, the State of Israel left the Gaza Strip and the north of Samaria while expelling some 10,000 Israelis who lived there.
Greenblatt was one of the architects of the Trump peace plan which was introduced officially in late January.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“This is our answer to the hypocritical B’Tselem organization that is trying to tarnish a father who protected his daughter from murder,” Dagan stated at the time.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I profoundly hope that annexation does not go ahead,” says the British prime minister in a Hebrew op-ed published by a major Israeli daily.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“It’s hell in the E.U. to try to get a common position on this,” says one diplomat.
A large majority of 73% expects the new Israeli government to deepen the normalization steps with some of the Arab Gulf countries
Various reports have emerged recently on Netanyahu’s intention to declare sovereignty in stages, or on only a small segment of the allocated territory.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We do not see how any of these acute risks serve the long-term interest of a strong, secure Israel,” say U.S. congressional members.
Egypt's absence is a message to Ramallah as to how much they actually care if Israel applies Israeli law over Jewish communities.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.K. “strongly objects” to Israel’s plan to extend its law to parts of Judea and Samaria and “believes profoundly in a two-state solution,” says British prime minister, but was noncommittal regarding any possible sanctions.
By Israel Hayom
The message seems to be that while Abu Dhabi disagrees with Jerusalem on Israeli sovereignty, it won't be a roadblock to building relations with Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Envoy says after spending more than three years traveling to Arab capitals, he “came to learn that we agree on far more than we disagree on.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat tweeted that it is “a nice surprise reading a tweet in Hebrew” by a UAE official.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Sixty-four percent of Likud voters, 90 percent of Yamina voters and 62 percent of Yisrael Beiteinu voters support extension of Israeli law to the Jordan Valley and parts of Judea and Samaria.
The town's counter-terrorist unit was in the middle of a training exercise when the armed terrorist tried to breach the fence.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Borrell has threatened Israel with diplomatic action following the new government’s announced wish to declare sovereignty in parts of Judea and Samaria.
By Israel Hayom
Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg says his country rejects “prejudice” against the Jewish state, and calls for dialogue with Israel’s new government.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Within the EU there is no unanimous agreement on Israel, but that isn't stopping EU’s High Representative Josep Borrell.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
At a joint press conference in Jerusalem, America's top diplomat says that the IDF soldier's murder in a Palestinian rock attack the previous day “reminds us of the importance of making sure that people across the world know that Israel has the right to defend itself.”
By Ariel Kahana
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell is reportedly pushing to penalize Jerusalem if it moves ahead with plans to apply Israeli law to parts of Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Only 47% of Israeli Arabs throught that PA Arabs living in the annexed areas should be given Israeli citizenship.
By Ariel Kahana
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman believes that applying Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria can take place in a matter of weeks. In a special interview, he dismisses the Left's criticism, saying, "We have doubled areas A' and B' and reassures the Right it will only have to contend with a Palestinian state "if the Palestinians become Canadian."
"The fact that this is occurring in a far-left NGO is not surprising."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Much remains unclear as to how Israel will progress with the implementation of this plan.
Miriam Fuld was concerned for the welfare of the Efrat counter-terrorist unit, when they would go outside on emergency calls.
By HaKol HaYehudi / Yehuda Pearl
One of the evicted residents was a pregnant woman in her ninth month. Honenu recorded police grabbing her infant girl.
Only local residents and suppliers will be allowed in and out of the Haredi town of Beitar Ilit in Gush Etzion.
By Josh Hasten
The first group were infected by one person during the Purim Megillah reading, the next day, 17 people had Purim seudah with that person, then on Shabbat, that group split up into different minyanim...
The virus apparently began to spread at a Purim party.
Israel started the morning with 529 Coronavirus patients. That number has since gone up.
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin is in quarantine, and has issued instructions to the town of Efrat.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Blue&White Party leader Benny Gantz must abandon plans to apply sovereignty in Judea and Samaria and reject the idea of a “Jewish majority” government, says Joint List's Ayman Odeh.
The elections will have a significant role in how the Deal of the Century gets implemented.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A day before elections, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria “will happen within weeks, two months at the most” if he wins.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The construction plan, which will effectively connect Ma'aleh Adumim to Jerusalem, was frozen by Netanyahu for years following international criticism that it would harm a prospective Palestinian state.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Jewish construction will be frozen in areas outside the map lines.
The congressmen began their tour on the “Heritage Trail” in Beersheva, where they learned about the biblical Abraham and the ties of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel.
Students from Derech Avot showed some Jewish spirit.
While holding a meeting in their sovereignty protest test, the council leaders were invited in for a meeting with the prime minister.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"If Israel’s government continues with steps to annex the West Bank, the U.S. should make clear that none of our aid should be used to support annexation," Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told the New York Times in a recent survey of candidates' policy positions.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Last week, settlement leaders said Prime Minister Netanyahu told them there are some technical differences within the US administration.
The Israeli population in Judea and Samaria at the end of 2019 stood at 463,901 residents in 150 communities and towns.
"The citizens of the State of Israel will count very well every hand that doesn’t go up and vote for sovereignty over the Jordan Valley."
Three suspected infiltrators were seen in the town in the early hours of the morning.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo opened the conference by announcing that the United States is “disavowing” the 1978 Hansell Memorandum, a State Department memo that claimed Israeli settlements violate international law.
Bennett recently threatened to demolish any illegal Arab construction in Area C, even if it was funded by the European Union.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"We’re disavowing the deeply flawed 1978 Hansell memo, and we’re returning to a balanced and sober Reagan-era approach.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
1,283 housing units and three outline plans were approved by a committee convened by the Civil Administration’s Planning Division.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“With the fuel each page gave me to learn the next, I can truly say it’s an endeavor which brought me so much, and I look forward to starting the next cycle,” said the 17-year-old from Efrat.
Former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked commended the court for its decision and said that it is the result of the hard work led by her at the ministry in recent years.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The final tally was 226 in favor, 188 against, and two present—with most Democrats voting for it, and most Republicans voting against it.
The new promises of new construction for the Jews of Hebron offered by Defense Minister Naftali Bennett.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Some candidates believe that Jews don't have the right to live in Judea, others imagine Jews living there pushes away peace with our avowed enemies and endangers Israel.
There were strong reactions to the expected US declaration on the legality of Jewish settlement activity in Judea and Samaria.
Despite the court order, Zarog's release is being delayed so police can appeal to the Supreme Court.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
This decision mandates religious discrimination, treating Jewish-owned and Muslim-owned businesses differently even if they operate in the same geographic location.
International law expert Prof. Eugene Kontorovich added the ECJ’s ruling “is putting a new ‘Yellow Star’ on Jewish-made products."
It is unclear why an administrative order was place on Zarog in the first place, and some claim it is because he built his home in Area B.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Having seen the experience of the evacuation of Gaza, I don’t believe that there is a realistic plan that can be implemented that would require anyone—Jew or Arab—to be forced to leave their home,” said U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A new Arab city is currently being built adjacent to the Israeli communities of Amichai and Adei Ad, apparently a part of the Fayyad Plan.
United Hatzalah now has 18 new EMTs in the beautiful rolling hills of Judea.
The man arrived at the entrance to Efrat with no pulse.
As Efrat inaugurates a beautiful new promenade, the town is becoming the go-to settlement community ahead of the upcoming elections.
By Israel Hayom
Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan: “Entrepreneurship is in Samaria’s DNA.” Nearly 2,000 small and medium-sized businesses now operate in Judea and Samaria.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israeli-owned vineyards and fields in the Shiloh area in Samaria on Wednesday were consumed in a blaze ignited by Arab arsonists.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
According to recent reports, Trump’s plan, dubbed “Deal of the Century,” entails US recognition of Israeli ownership over areas already under its full control.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Let’s stop pretending that settlements are what is keeping the sides from a negotiated peaceful solution,” said U.S. special envoy for Mideast peace negotiations Jason Greenblatt. “This farce and obsessive focus on one aspect of this complicated conflict helps no one.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The signees were the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Union for Reform Judaism, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, MERCAZ, the Rabbinical Assembly, the ADL, Ameinu, the National Council of Jewish Women and the Israel Policy Forum.
In the settlements of Itamar and Bat Ayin, the Election Committee reports indicate an unusually large number of votes for Arab parties.
The decision was the direct result of the lawsuits against Airbnb's for their anti-Israel boycott.
By Alex Traiman
They note the strategic nature of the areas in which Settlers live, as well as the existing economic and often unknown social collaboration between Jews and Arabs
By Rachel Cohen
Like Esther before her, Tura Winery co-owner Vered Ben Sa’adon is a modern-day example of a strong woman advocating for her people.
There's currently a violent clan war underway in the village.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Arab vandalism of Israeli-owned agricultural endeavors is a common occurrence, and Israeli vineyards in Judea and Samaria have been repeatedly targeted by Arab sabotage.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
While some Arab family members take over land illegally and carry out provocations, other family members make their living by working in the Israeli communities.
The Israeli employers have decided to step up their struggle against the phenomenon of illegal land grabs that endanger the security and future of their communities.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
30 – 40 of the vines had been cut at their base.
By Israel Hayom
Temporary International Presence in Hebron is accused of anti-Israel bias, violence, and overstepping its mandate as a neutral observer.
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