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IDF & Security / Israel At War: Iron Swords / Gaza

IDF May Administer Gaza for Up to a Year after War

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

According to reports, Israel is considering a gradual transfer of control to local bodies believed not to be hostile to the Jewish state.

IDF & Security / News Briefs / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

‘Civil Administration Will Continue to Develop Judea and Samaria’

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Brig. Gen. Hisham Ibrahim, the administration's new head, said the Jewish state is "fighting one of the most just wars in its history."

Government / Judea & Samaria / Settlements / Sovereignty

Netanyahu to Transfer Full Power over Civil Administration to Smotrich

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The Defense Ministry body's responsibilities include approving construction in Area C of Judea and Samaria.

IDF & Security / Government / Judea & Samaria / Settlements / Sovereignty

Smotrich Assumes Reins of Civil Administration After Meeting Top Defense Officials

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.

Analysis

The Systemic Failure of Israel’s Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria

By Maurice Hirsch

While I would like to believe that those who who serve in the body established in 1981 are good people, the entire mechanism is rotten to its core.

Headline / Politics / Government / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Bennett’s Voters Face Bennett’s Diplomacy and Bennett's Demolitions

By Caroline B. Glick

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.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Police and Crime / Palestinian Authority / Judea & Samaria / Settlements / Sovereignty / Eastern Europe

Trifecta: Convicted Terrorist Builds Illegal Structures in Gush Etzion with EU Money

By Jewish Press News Desk

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.

Featured / IDF & Security / The Courts / Palestinian Authority / Judea & Samaria / Settlements / European Union

High Court of Justice to Hear Petitions on Illegal Bedouin Settlement

By JNi.Media

In the case of Khan al Ahmar, the High Court has displayed a disturbing "flexibility," extending a legal process which, by the Court's own admission, has been plagued by intolerable stalling.

Featured / IDF & Security / Politics / Police and Crime

Bennett Condemns Yitzhar Settlers' Attack on Female Border Guard

By JNi.Media

The female Border Police officer was injured Wednesday afternoon from stones thrown at her by settlers in the Yitzhar area.

Featured / Headline / IDF & Security / The Knesset / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Defense Ministry, Civil Administration, Reject Bill Transferring Arab Land Appeals to Civilian Courts

By JNi.Media

Attorney Marganit Levy, representing the Justice Ministry, told the committee: "The Administrative Affairs Court has more ability than the High Court of Justice to clarify factual matters."

Headline / Government / History / Judea & Samaria

KKL Decision Creates New Reality on Ground for Kfar Etzion

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

KKL has completed registration of 700 dunams land purchased from residents of the PA village of Beit Ummar, several kilometers south of Kfar Etzion, prior to the war of independence.

Featured / Police and Crime / History / Archaeology / Israeli Arabs

Report: Robbers Destroyed Mysterious 'Skull Cave' in Hasmonean Fortress

By JNi.Media

Apart from the cave of the skulls, the volunteers found dozens of new, illegal excavation sites, as well as the remains of the bonfires that the robbers lit on the progressively eroding mosaic floor at the top of the fortress.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Hamas / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Life Imprisonment for Terrorist who Killed Mother of Six in Otniel

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The Arab teen who murdered an Otniel mother of six has been sentenced to life in prison. Six children are still orphans.

IDF & Security / US / Politics / Government / Elections / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Anti-Israel NGOs / Judea & Samaria / United Nations (UN) / Settlements

Netanyahu Asking Kerry to Avoid UN 2-State Resolution

By JNi.Media

Kerry responded by saying the Administration has not yet made its decision on this matter — which is probably what he would have said if he didn't want an Obama anti-Israel move to hit the news before the election.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority

IDF Demolishes Home of Rabbi Mickey Mark's Murderer

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The demolition operation was conducted in line with the Israeli government’s recently reinvigorated terrorism deterrence policy.

Government / News Briefs / Settlements

Plan In The Works to Transfer Residents of Amona To Alternative Location

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Amona residents appear to be opposed to any compromise even at the expense of being evacuated by force.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / News Briefs

IDF and Security Forces Demolish Homes of Two Islamic Terrorists

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The two were responsible for the murders of Rabbi Reuven Biermacher and Ofer Ben Ari.

IDF & Security / Politics / Government / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / The Knesset / Judea & Samaria / Science and Tech / Settlements

Official: Water Crisis in Samaria Caused by Arabs Stealing 400 Million Gallons a Year

By JNi.Media

Meanwhile, on the Palestinian Authority side, the responsibility for the shortage is being placed squarely on Israel.

US / Politics / Gaza / Government / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / The Knesset / Jerusalem / Judea & Samaria / Settlements / Israeli Arabs

Reports Show 1 Million Gap Between Estimates on Number of 'Palestinians'

By JNi.Media

Whether Area C becomes part of Israel or is handed over to the PA, "we should know how many potential Arab citizens we'll have in the state."

IDF & Security / Police and Crime / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Annals of Crazy, The Sequel: Barred Teen Returns to Samaria Under House Arrest in Yitzhar

By Jewish Press News Desk

A teenage boy who was barred from his home in Yitzhar and also from Samaria is allowed to return for lack of placement elsewhere.

News Briefs / Jerusalem

Givat Zeev Synagogue Evacuated, Preparing for Destruction, as per High Court Orders

By Jewish Press News Desk

The court decided the synagogue did not sufficiently prove they purchased the land the synagogue was built on.

News Briefs / The Knesset / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Hundreds of Police Force Protesters out of Beit El Buildings

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

High Court ordered the "illegal" building to be torn down. Bayit Yehudi MK threatens to tear down coalition government.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset

Likud Breaching Bayit Yehudi's Coalition Agreements One by One

By Shalom Bear

The Bayit Yehudi party may be wondering if the coalition agreements it signed are worth the paper they're written on.

Israel / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority

PA Vehicles to be Allowed into Little Israel

By Jewish Press News Desk

This is part of a series of steps designed to relax access restrictions on Palestinian Authority citizens. Hopefully it won't blow up on us.

IDF & Security / Police and Crime / Government / News Briefs / Settlements

Police Arrest Pregnant Yitzhar Woman for Inciting Against IDF Soldiers

By Jewish Press Staff

Israel Police arrested an eight-month pregnant woman in Yitzhar before dawn Wednesday on suspicion of incitement.

Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Settlements

Israel to Demolish 3 Illegal Arab Homes

By Jewish Press Staff

Someone in the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria is paying attention.

Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

This Is How the UN and the European Union Intentionally Promote Illegal Construction in Judea And Samaria

By Jewish Press Staff

European countries, European NGO’s and international support organizations have carried out at least 200 illegal building projects in Area C of Judea and Samaria.

Police and Crime / News Briefs / Settlements

A Busload of Civil Administration and Border Guard Troops Demolish Two Outposts

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Around 1 AM Monday night, large Border Guard and Civilian Administration forces arrived on a bus and in several other vehicles at two outposts in Gush Talmonim in the Benjamin region. They also brought with them a tractor.

IDF & Security / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel

Yad Yair Refugees Recite Lamentations at the Ruins of their Homes

By Jacob Edelist

On Saturday night, Tisha B'Av 5772, some 50 men, women and children, members of the settlement nucleus of Yad Yair, together with the Benjamin Settlers Committee and residents of Gush Talmonim, mourned the destruction of Jerusalem, and shared their private grief over the destruction of their settlement more than three years ago by the Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria.

News Briefs

Civil Administration Coordinates Transport of Arab Boy With Kidney Failure to Boston Hospital

By IDF Spokesperson's Office

The Civil Administration arranged for the transport of Yehia, an Arab boy from Bethlehem, to be treated at a hospital in Boston where he underwent a kidney transplant that saved his life. The child was previously treated for kidney issues at the Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, where he received dialysis treatment. Eventually, Israeli doctors […]

News Briefs

Civil Administration Issues Construction Permits to Palestinians, While Throwing Jewish Residents to the Street

By Jewish Press News Desk

While forcibly removing Jewish residents from their legally purchased home in Hebron, the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria has just issued construction permits for two United Nation's Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA)-run Palestinian schools to be constructed in the region. One of the schools is an all-male facility and the other all-female, in the […]

News Briefs

General Closure in Judea and Samaria During Passover

By Jewish Press Staff

The IDF on Thursday, ahead of the Passover holiday, issued a closure order affecting Palestinians crossings into and out of Judea and samaria. "In accordance with the directives of the Minister of Defense and as part of the situation assessments in the IDF, a general closure will be implemented in the Judea and Samaria region," […]

Israel

Deadline for Evacuation of Hebron House Passes Without Implementation

By Solomon Burke

Defense Minister Ehud Barak and the Defense Ministry have remained silent in the few hours since the ministry reiterated that the deadline was still in effect.

Israel

Exclusive: Palestinians Attempt to Erase Jewish Roots in Hebron's Old City

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

This is not the first time Arabs have been engaged in the destruction of archaeological artifacts in Hebron. But recent acts of vandalism have been more methodical, leading to suspicion that they are purposeful and orchestrated by an entity bent on the erasure of archaeological artifacts that testify to the ancient Jewish roots in Hebron.

Serials

Getzlight - Chapter I

By Ruchama Feuerman

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