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Obama and Kerry give credit to Abbas for stopping terror while the IDF does the work.
The IDF continues to arrest PA Arab fugitives in Operation Brother's Keeper in Judea and Samaria.
IDF troops continue their manhunt for the terrorists who kidnapped and murdered three Israeli teens as they hitchhiked home from yeshiva 18 days ago.
By Rachel Levy
Israel's High Court of Justice rejected an appeal by six Hamas members to cancel their remand for terrorist activity.
By Rachel Levy
Rocket attack from Gaza starts off the morning in southern Israel to show the new PA unity government is the 'same old thing.'
No unity today for the Fatah and Hamas terror groups trying to form a single government in the Palestinian Authority.
A missing 19 year old Jewish girl from Samaria has been found safe and sound.
Israel Police asks the public to help find 19-year-old Bat-El Aminov, missing since Tuesday.
IDF soldiers fought their way through gunfire and Molotov cocktails to arrest suspected terrorists in Samaria.
Israel Police prevented a potential terror attack this week when they caught four PA Arabs carrying explosives and firebombs.
Israel Police arrested an eight-month pregnant woman in Yitzhar before dawn Wednesday on suspicion of incitement.
Taglit-Birthright will finally allow participants to see important parts of their heritage, hopefully they will expand this further to include more, important sites.
Border Police in Yitzhar’s yeshiva have plenty of time on their hands to learn a bit of Torah.
“You shall set up judges and police…in all your cities…and they shall judge…[with] righteous judgment.” – Devarim, 16:18.
Israeli security forces and soldiers lifted a gag order Monday and revealed they have arrested a Palestinian Authority terrorist cell from Samaria that carried out shooting attacks and a firebomb attacks in the past several months. They attacked Israeli motorists near Kedumim, located three miles east of the Karnei and Ginot Shomron communities in central […]
The inevitable failure of the "peace talks" alreasy are exploding in Israel's collective face.
The greatest growth was registered in the smaller communal settlements, some of which are in very remote locations.
Arab rock-throwing terrorists attacked dozens of cars in western Samaria Wednesday evening, causing widespread damage but no injuries. The attackers fled the area when soldiers arrived at the scene on the road to Hashmonim, located between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and near the city of Modi’in. Soldiers so far have not nabbed the attackers.
Three residents of the Gilad Farms outpost in Samaria were indicted Wednesday on charges of setting Arab vehicles on fire and spraying then with two Stars of David. Police have been sharply criticized for not putting their hands on price tag vandals. Some leaders in the nationalist movement have been claiming that most or all […]
Palestinian Authority terrorists hurled two firebombs at an Israeli bus near Shchem Wednesday night, causing damage to the vehicle but no injuries to the passengers. Soldiers are combing the area for the attackers.
“Price Tag’ vandals slashed tires on dozens of cars and destroyed trees in the Arab village of Kablan in Samaria Monday night, according to local villagers and the pro-Palestinian Authority Rabbis for Human Watch organization. Most of the damaged vehicles reportedly were in car repair garage, and graffiti was scrawled on a nearby wall with […]
Shiloh, in Samaria, was the site of the first Tabernacle in Israel. Archaeologists now have found evidence that after Shilo was destroyed and Jews returned, they sacrificed even during the First Temple period.
Palestinian Authority Arabs on popular service committees in U.N.-run villages, commonly known as refugee camps, are shutting down UNRWA offices and programs in northern Samaria Wednesday and Thursday in protest of “systematic reductions” in services for residents, the Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency reported. Similar protests have occurred in Gaza where UNRWA is the dominant influence […]
Palestinian Authority Arab rock-throwers attacked passing motorists in at least three locations Thursday, wounding two people lightly and causing damage to cars. A woman was treated in a hospital for injuries from broken glass when Arabs attacked her car near the village of Azoon as she was approaching the entrance of Ma'aleh Shomron, located several […]
Residents of the "Nof" neighborhood of Beit El found themselves under a barrage of stones this evening as they were outside building their Sukkahs. The Arab assailants were very surprised to discover that these Beit El residents weren't very passive when it came to responding to the Arab attacks. The Beit El residents quickly reacted, […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
A new poll conducted by Israel's Ministry of Public Security in order to determine the effectiveness of urban policing programs in 13 different Israeli cities found that residents in the city of Ariel, in Samaria, feel the safest from criminal activity. Ariel is home to 20,000 residents, of whom 92 percent responded saying that they […]
The lobbyist tried to convince me that this is pragmatic politics, that this is the argument around which we can now achieve a consensus.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Palestinian Authority Arabs throwing Molotov cocktails at passing Israeli cars in Samaria Thursday ignited a forest fire near the Jewish community of Neve Tzuf, located in the Binyamin region north of Jerusalem. Volunteers quickly arrived on the scene and began to extinguish the blaze to prevent flames from spreading to nearby homes, and firefighters arrived […]
You never give me your money / You only give me your funny paper / And in the middle of negotiations / You break down. (Lennon/McCartney)
By Adam Levick
Many in the media, including the Guardian, The Independent, and the Irish Times, have whitewashed the violent and often brutal crimes of the prisoners being released.
Thanks to Peace Now, we now know that there will be 1000 more homes available for Jewish families in Judea and Samaria. It's a start.
When announcing their anti-Israeli directive, the EU thought they had Israel over the barrel, but Israel clearly has plenty of powerful ammunition it can fire back in return.
By JTA
An Israeli military court has convicted a Palestinian Authority terrorist for the April murder of 31-year-old Eviatar Borovsky, who lived in the community of Itamar, in northeastern Samaria. Zagal stabbed Borovsky to death as the father of five waited at a bus stop at the Tapuach Junction. Border Police officers shot and wounded Zagal at […]
By Mark Regev
We will continue to take all necessary steps to protect the right of every Israeli citizen.
Watch the video below the petition. [emailpetition id="5"] JewishPress.com has been closely following the escalating terrorism in Gush Etzion. Below is a shocking video where you will see the what it like to have a rock thrown at you, and how the IDF has been responding. It is shocking that the government of Israel is […]
The Israeli government has announced a new step in plans to build 300 new homes in Beit El, in northern Samaria, just as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is trying to convince Mahmoud Abbas to return to talks if Israel slaps a freeze on building for Jews in Judea and Samaria. Reports from Israeli […]
By JTA
The Shomron (Samaria) Regional Council moved its offices to the site of Tuesday’s lethal terrorist attack and posted a sign “Eviyatar” at what is intended to become a new outpost in memory of the victim, 31-year-old Eviyatar Borovsky of Yitzhar. “The Zionist response is to deepen Jewish roots in the land," said Samaria Regional Council […]
The Fatah party, headed by Mahmoud “Peace Partner” Abbas, quickly responded to Tuesday’s murder of a Jew. It did not condemn it, No, it praised the terrorist. John Kerry, are you reading this?
A Palestinian terrorist killed a Jew at Tapuach Junction, not long after being released from jail for a previous terror attack.
By Batya Medad
The highlight, of course, was the chance to pray and say Tehillim, Psalms to God, in the very spot experts believe the Mishkan had once stood.
Israeli reserve soldiers prevented a major terrorist attack in Sunday by arresting a Palestinian Authority terrorist at the checkpoint immediately west of Kfar Saba, north of Tel Aviv. The highway to the checkpoint is the main artery for Ginot and Karnei Shomron and Kedumim, The terrorist was caught with an improvised firearm, ammunition and a […]
Trying to outsmart Israel, the PA is demanding that Israel hand over maps, to use them as the sole basis for negotiations,
In what has become a daily occurrence, Palestinians are routinely throwing rocks at Magen David Adom ambulances, smashing windshields and seriously endangering the MDA medical crews.
Border police swooped down on the Eish Kodesh outpost late Monday night and arrested five men who were released only hours later concerning an incident several weeks ago in which a Palestinian Authority Arab infiltrator was wounded. The Honenu legal defense organization called the arrest a “political provocation by the police," who lawyers said knew […]
By Batya Medad
As many new homes as we build, there's still a housing shortage in Shiloh. Jewish families of all ages, from all over the world want to live here.
Coming to Israel this afternoon or late morning on Wednesday, or going to the airport to meet friends and relatives? President Barack Obama also is coming, and you are well-advised to take the train and forget about driving. President Obama has not yet boarded Air Force One in Washington, but Highway 1, the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv […]
At around 10 PM, Egged bus #59 was hit by Arab stone throwers as it drove through French Hill, in the northern part of Jerusalem. One passenger was taken to Hadassah Har HaTzofim hospital, after being injured in the head with a stone.
By JTA
A U.S. embassy official denied that it did not invite students from Ariel University to President Barack Obama’s speech in Jerusalem next week because the institution is located in Samaria, which the United States considers an illegitimate and illegal settlement. The speech, set to take place at the Jerusalem Convention Center next Thursday, on the […]
European Union officials from Austria, Belgium and Turkey are scheduled to visit Ariel University, in Central Samaria, and will meet with Shomron Jewish leaders on Tuesday. International leaders rarely visited Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria until recently. The Shomron Regional Council has successfully attracted foreign journalists and European officials to see for themselves Jewish […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel police announced Thursday that the alleged “price tag” attack in the Arab village of Kusra last week was fabricated and staged by Arabs for propaganda purposes. Police had received a report of six burned cars in the village of Kusra, located in Samaria, and blue Israeli identification card was found on site. The media […]
Palestinian Authority violence continued early Wednesday afternoon when approximately 200 Arabs in Samaria rioted and hurled rocks at soldiers who evacuated a small illegal village. Two of the soldiers were lightly injured and w ere treated on the spot. The IDF shot over the heads of the rioters to disperse them.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Feeling abandoned, some residents of Judea and Samaria are taking security into their own hands.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Residents demand that the crimes be investigated and dealt with as they would anywhere else in Israel.
By Batya Medad
The Jewish Month of Adar is known as a time of change, reversals, bad to good, winter to spring.
By Shalom Bear
Rhetoric aside, real data can answer the question as to who built the most in the Settlements.
Earlier this month, a man in uniform you probably never heard of signed a military order which conferred formal recognition upon Rehalim as the 32nd Jewish community in Samaria.
Heralding the worsening of relations between Israel and Europe, the European Union is reportedly mulling the passing of sanctions on Israel, including the restriction of marketing Israeli goods and the boycott of goods made by Jews in Judea and Samaria – as punishment for Israel’s decision to develop additional housing in areas Palestinians say should be theirs.
Israeli law already applies in Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria.
Moshe Ya'alon is likely to replace Ehud Barak.
Despite what appears like an emerging Intifada throughout Judea and Samaria, the IDF spokesman at the Central Command did not report or comment.Despite what appears like an emerging Intifada throughout Judea and Samaria, the IDF spokesman at the Central Command did not report or comment.
The number of fatalities in demonstrations against Operation " Pillar of Defense" in Judea and Samaria has risen to two. Last night IDF forces shot dead a demonstrator near Hebron, after they said they were attacked by him. Another protester reportedly died of his injuries, after a Palestinian-reported clash with security forces. The Army does […]
By Meir Indor
Terrorism cannot be contained, only destroyed.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Arabs from Isawiya in east Jerusalem rioted near the Har Hatsofim Hospital, on Mt. Scopus. The rioters threw stones at security forces, blocked the road and shot fireworks at the hospital compound. Spokesperson for the Border Police stated that the Border Police on site kept the rioters away, opened the blocked road and responded with […]
Since this morning, throughout Judea and Samaria, there have been demonstrations and violent marches of thousands of Arabs, to mark the so called "Palestinian Independence Day."
In his op-ed in Ha'artez, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross delegation in Israel disputes the Levy Report. He does not understand that we are Jews returning, not being transferred to Judea and Samaria.
By Rafi Farber
It looks like Moshe Kahlon, the popular and vaunted Likud Minister of Communications, will be the second consecutive Likud Central Committee Chairman to leave the party looking for more power. The first one, Tzahi Hanegbi who left to Kadima and was charged with handing out jobs to cronies and nearly convicted of perjury, is now back in Likud because Kadima has entirely crashed. He’s looking for a slot on Likud’s Knesset roster.
By Meir Indor
The coming winter is going to be a hot one. The smell of it is already wafting through the national-religious community, which for some time now has been in the middle of an unprecedentedly egotistical primaries campaign. For those who have had enough of advertisements saying how great one candidate is and how problematic another, here is a story about two national-religious pioneers in Judea and Samaria, one a fighter in the army and the other a fighter in the public sphere. Just a reminder that there is life beyond egocentric political campaigns.
Der Spiegel reported that Israel’s government records an estimated €230 million ($298 million) in produce, toys, textiles and cosmetics exported to the EU yearly from Judea and Samaria – approximately 2% of all its exports to Europe, despite a European Court of Justice ruling in 2010 excluding Jewish products from Judea and Samaria from the EU’s international customs cooperation agreements.
Arabs steal olives from Jewish-owned grove, then destroy trees. Victim asks why the media makes Jews the villain.
Last Sunday, Netanyahu told Likud ministers he plans on adopting part of the report without relating to broad legal interpretations, to avoid international criticism. Still, the proposal will add legal flexibility and remove bureaucratic obstacles, making Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria considerably easier.
In a rare instance of breaking step with the Arab world, Russia’s envoy to the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) caused the organization to defer condemning Israel in a series of votes on Wednesday.
A new video explaining the Jewish right to build in Judea and Samaria.
The actual problem is the failure of the Palestinian project to establish one unique "Palestinian people," with a shared national identity, on the basis of which civil systems can be established, like an economy and legitimate self-administration.
In excerpts of an interview published by Yisrael HaYom newspaper, Defense Minister Ehud Barak proposed a unilateral withdrawal from most of Judea and Samaria, requiring tens of thousands of Jews to leave their homes or remain under the sovereignty of the Palestinian Authority.
Despite continued tension on the southwestern border, four Gaza children are receiving medical treatment in northern Israel. The children are all nephrology patients suffering from kidney insufficiency, and have been hospitalized for the last several months at the Children’s Hospital at Rambam Health Care Campus awaiting transplants.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Despite relative stability, the IDF is bracing for possible escalation of violence in Judea and Samaria, Commander of the IDF Central Command, Major General Nitzan Alon, said at a recent Rosh Hashannah ceremony attended by community leaders and mayors from Judea and Samaria.
General Security Services forces raided the yeshiva Od Yosef Chai in the Samaria-region community of Yitzhar in the early hours of Wednesday morning, detaining one student for failing to appear in court.
Lior Farchi, the 43 year-old chief of security in the Samaria region Jewish community of Shaarei Tikva who was run over by a 25 year old Arab from Kafr Qasem, will be laid to rest at 2pm on Monday in a military ceremony at the Segula Cemetery in Petach Tikva. He is survived by a pregnant wife and three young children.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Despite the significant conclusion that damage is being caused to both the Jewish and Arab populations residing in these areas, and despite the importance of protecting the environment, many environmental organizations chose not to attend the conference and even banned it because the conference was held in Ariel.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Deputy FM, Danny Ayalon: "The changes we have witnessed in South Africa in recent years have failed to truly modify trends in the state, and it has remained an apartheid state. South Africa's apartheid policy is currently targeting the State of Israel and the miners of South Africa itself."
By Aryeh Savir and Gil Lavie, Tazpit News Agency
The poll was also surprising in the diversity it found in the Israeli Defense Forces. 1,200 of the reservists were from the Republic of Georgia, 720 originated from Iran, 30 from the Philippines, and 4 from Bahrain. The study indicates a rarely seen picture of reserve duty, where minorities and immigrants play a larger role than previously thought. A total of 19% of reserve soldiers were born outside Israel.
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.
Israel can theoretically negotiate a compromise with the Arabs in which it gives up land for an end to belligerency. There is a flavor of extortion here, but nevertheless Israel has a position from which to negotiate. But if Israel begins negotiating from the position that it is occupying someone else’s land, then the only thing there is to negotiate is the timetable for withdrawal.
The community, home to over 100 families and located approximately 18 miles from Tel Aviv, was founded in 1998 on state land. It was identified as an illegal outpost in Israel's Sasson Report published in 2005, but the Netanyahu government decided in April to retroactively legalize its status.
The Levy Report on the settlements in Judea and Samaria was like cold water on a parched landscape. The committee members who drafted the report and dared to publicly say what every child in Israel can and should know deserve credit and appreciation. The report factually states that there never was an occupation in Judea and Samaria because no entity there was ever occupied.
More than sixty-five American Jewish leaders urged Netanyahu to adopt Levy's findings that the “settlements” in Judea and Samaria are legal.
By dvora
JERUSALEM – "It is not just Israel's right to apply sovereignty to Judea and Samaria," said Eran Bar-Tal, economics reporter for Makor Rishon, "but its obligation."
Though the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instituted an unprecedented 10 month building freeze in Judea and Samaria due to pressure by the US beginning in November 2009, an Israeli business newspaper report shows that financial support for Jewish communities leaped a whopping 38% the following year.
David Schottenstein is a member of the famous Ohio Schottenstein Talmud family but he has earned his own fame as a brilliant dynamic businessman who for three years running was one of “America’s Coolest Young Entrepreneurs” on the 30 Under 30 list of Inc. Magazine. During his current visit to Israel he sat down with Yishai […]
By JTA
Israel's Interior Ministry reported that 350,150 Israelis live in Judea and Samaria settlements, an increase of 15,580 from last year. Including eastern Jerusalem and other Jerusalem neighborhoods, the total population of Jews living beyond the Green Line that separates Israel proper from its administered territories is approximately 650,000. (Dani Dayan, chair of the Yesha settlers […]
By Moshe Herman
Friend and Colleague Baruch Widen joins Yishai to talk about Yishai's recent assault by Arab rock throwers along with a conference in Hebron and the need for Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.
Daniel Gordis writes: "To state publicly that what we have in Judea and Samaria is not an occupation might be a legally justifiable claim. But it would also signal that it is time to give up even thinking about how a different reality in the Middle East might be achieved." One might instead ask, why is the President of the Shalem Center recycling and defending the failed ideas of the Left?
Nadia Matar, co-organizer of the Conference for the Application of Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria: "Just like we now express surprise that Israel did not have sovereignty over East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, so our children will express surprise that once we did not have sovereignty over Judea and Samaria."
Unfortunately, Israeli governments have not taken the correct line from the beginning. By not vehemently opposing Arab claims, insisting that the territory was disputed rather than occupied, and asserting Israel’s own rights under the Mandate, they allowed the PLO — with the willing connivance of anti-Zionist forces throughout the world — to make its point of view part of the conventional wisdom.
The “outposts committee” recommended legalizing and expanding the outposts. Leaders in the region are urging immediate implementation.
By JTA
The country’s largest Presbyterian church has agreed to vote by week’s end on divesting its portfolio from three companies that it says have resisted the request to stop providing services that aid Israel’s "occupation" of Judea and Samaria. The Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly’s Middle East Committee voted 36 to 11 with one abstention in […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
MK Uri Ariel of the National Union and Knesset hopeful Naftali Bennett offer their alternatives to the "Land for Peace" formula.
It is impossible not to notice the similarity between the Ulpana situation and the Sharon-led Expulsion from Gush Katif. In both cases a prime minister elected by the Right, whose ideology certainly does not endorse destruction in Israel’s heartland, veers sharply left and compels his ministers and coalition to support a Peace Now move – a move completely against their will.
Judea and Samaria are not under occupation rule. This is the central finding of the "Outposts Committee" which was appointed to examine the legal status of Israel in Judea and Samaria.
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