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The expansion will nearly double the size of the town of Eli.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A majority of Jewish Israelis support the re-establishment of Israeli civilian communities in the Gaza Strip, according to the “Peace Index” survey released by Tel Aviv University in January of this year.
Called “Hamore,” it is located between the towns of Eli and Ma’ale Levona.
Netanyahu, Galant and Smotrich are in agreement.
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.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Yuli Edelstein and Tom Nides speak about settlements, Iran and bilateral ties.
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.
Gantz claims that Bennett, Shaked and Sa'ar all know he is going to make this happen.
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.
By David Isaac
“Substantively, it’s not that big an issue. We’re not talking about a big defensive settlement, but in politics, symbols often are more important than substance,” said Yechiel Leiter, senior fellow at the Kohelet Policy Forum.
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.
With the deal finalized... we present pictures of some of the youth in the community of Evyatar.
The decision on labeling is part of the US's "reality-based foreign policy approach" under President Trump.
The establishment of the new community is the outcome of Netanyahu’s policy of advancing the development of the periphery and the drawing of the population from the center of the country to the Negev.
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.
The Israeli population in Judea and Samaria at the end of 2019 stood at 463,901 residents in 150 communities and towns.
The TIPH official who hit a Jewish child was sent home to Switzerland.
Groundbreaking and infrastructure development has begun in the land slated to be part of the new and expanded Netiv HaAvot neighborhood.
Blessed are you Hashem our God, King of the Universe, Who restores the widow's boundary line.
Netanyahu: Whoever thinks that through the reprehensible murder of a resident of Havat Gilad, a father of six, that he can break our spirit and weaken us, is making a bitter mistake.
“Palestinians themselves don't even have civil rights under Palestinian rule. What do you expect would happen to Jews?"
"We want to see solid plans for development projects that we can present to our residents as an answer to their needs, which have grown over the years."
By JNi.Media
Peace Now reports remind us of the joke about the Jewish guy reading Der Stürmer in 1936 Berlin.
Dagan and Revivi told Greenblatt that the Obama era is over.
"Congress is willing to hold hearings about other options for the Israel-Palestinian story other than the two-state solution."
By JNi.Media
Supreme Court President Justice Miriam Na'or makes sure the cases that deal with settlements would usually receive panels with an anti-settlement majority.
By JNi.Media
While the PM and his ministers were negotiating the peaceful evacuation of Amona in recent weeks, Netanyahu promised the residents that the state would build them a new community wherever they wish.
In 2005, Ariel Sharon also promised a solution for every resident of Gush Katif.
It took 8.5 hours to evict 150 passive resisters.
By JNi.Media
PM Netanyahu has been on both sides of the fence regarding the new bill, but mostly, people in his circle explained, out of fear of retribution from the Obama Administration.
By JNi.Media
'It’s really sad to hear that a place that takes pride in taking students from across the world would behave like this.'
If the bill passes, it may put an end to the Supreme Court's guillotine hanging over the settlements.
Will the Israeli Supreme Court grant the residents the three months needed to prepare their new homes?
The community of Neria went into lock-down following an overnight infiltration.
The Jewish owners of 13 villas (several now being used as foreign embassies) and public buildings around Cairo's Tahrir square were summarily expelled in the 1950s and never received compensation
The fact is that no Israeli government has established a single new settlement in more than twenty years.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee takes 'selfies' in Ma'ale Adumim to show the city is no handful of tents but rather, a full city.
Minister Naftali Bennett explains to CNN how Israel can not be an occupier in its own land.
Building permits are issued for new homes on the Tamar Hill in Efrat.
Check out the video of the training exercise.
By JNi.Media
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni recommended that the next government (which she expected to head) dismantle the division by blocking its state budget. Without a budget, the division was expected to wither and die.
When the first pioneers came to Kedumim 40 years ago, there was nothing. "The conditions were very hard," they said... but they came because it was "the land of our forefathers."
Following the bizarre arrest, the court was shocked how the police disregarded the mandatory welfare requirements of the minor from Yitzhar.
By JNi.Media
What a wonderful example of community values in face of government deafness.
By JNi.Media
What would better express Israel's independence than allowing the thriving communities of northern Samaria thrive again?
By JNi.Media
The Army approved the overnight stay of the settlers of Evyatar, who agreed to be evacuated the next day.
By JNi.Media
Of course, if the guide were to exclude the Golan wineries it would have been a very thin book, without industry stars like Yarden and Gamla.
The unidentified man waited for a Red Crescent ambulance to take him to a Ramallah hospital.
By JNi.Media
“We believe that we must fight back and call on all of Israel’s supporters around the world, Jews and non-Jews, to buy Israeli products.”
By JNi.Media
Israeli farmers in the Jordan Valley have shifted their sales to Russia, the US and Canada, and don’t bother being treated as second class vendors in Europe.
By JNi.Media
A number of the Arab terrorists worked in jobs where they interacted regularly with Jews and even Jewish children.
The last prayer at the Ayelet HaShahar synagogue in Givat Zeev, which is slated for destruction as per a decision by the Israeli High Court.
Rabbi Levinger is most remembered for reestablishing Jewish life in Hebron and establishing the town of Kiryat Arba.
Does anyone remember Obama’s 20008 campaign speech that Jerusalem will remain “undivided?”
A vigilant police officer caught the terrorist as he was trying to light the Molotov cocktail...
There was a reported infiltration into the town of Neve Tzuf Halamish in the Binyamin region, on Sunday afternoon.
A 25 year old Israeli was severely injured in a drive-by shooting near Rechalim Junction just after midnight.
Rav Aviner answers the Admor of Satmar, who dwells in the Exile, and claimed the murder of the boys was punishment for the teens learning in the "Settlements" and blames the parents for sending them to learn there.
Four Israeli citizens were hurt Thursday in a road terror attack near Tekoa in Gush Etzion.
“You shall set up judges and police…in all your cities…and they shall judge…[with] righteous judgment.” – Devarim, 16:18.
The greatest growth was registered in the smaller communal settlements, some of which are in very remote locations.
Canada’s Employment minister Jason Kenney has countered the BDS ‘Boycott SodaStream” campaign by buying one of the company’s soda-making machines and crediting Oxfam for the idea. Oxfam has dumped Scarlett Johansson as an ambassador because she signed up to promote SodaStream whose 20 factories around the world include one in the industrial area of Maaleh […]
It is clear that land was the spark that set off the clash.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Kerry promises Israel the US will make sure Israelis are safe with a Palestinian Authority state, but who will protect the Arabs from themselves? Two frightened Palestinians escaping a Palestinian Authority hit squad sought and found refuge in the Israeli community of Beit Aryeh in Samaria Monday night, They said a group of Palestinian security […]
Shortly after 8:30 PM on Tuesday, there was a drive-by shooting in Gush Etzion at some IDF troops. The shooting took place at the junction between Maaleh Amos and Tekoa, which is east of Efrat. No one was injured in the attack.
Police Officer Rami Ravid, who was stabbed in the back at Kikar Adam yesterday has lost his kidney.
By JoeSettler
The current peace talks raise some obvious questions, the answers are a little less obvious.
Overnight, terrorists threw four firebombs at the Gush Etzion checkpoint near the tunnel entrance to Jerusalem. There were no injuries or damage from the attacks.
Arabs mistakenly attacked an Arab car, and a group of Arab stone throwers were captured.
Fed up with the rise in Arab terrorism around them, Efrat residents held their first street protest in recent times.
Construction of ninety new apartments in Beit El has been given approval by the Ministry of Defense. The construction is part of the 300 apartment compensation plan for Beit El following the evacuation of the Givat Ulpana neighborhood. As tenders have already begin to be issued, construction could begin in just a few months time.
In its rush to pass the Bedouin land grab bill, the government forgot to due some basic due diligence.
Palestinian terrorist stabs Jewish teenager.
Following the disturbances, about 30 residents arrived from the entire Shilo area to Esh Kodesh.
By Adam Levick
The Guardian was under no obligation to consult Israel before making allegations, but they could at least consult a map.
"The response to the attack on Zionism and the State of Israel must reinforce and underscore the implementation of the settlement plan."
● The president of the United States, in the midst of a policy dispute with the Israeli prime minister, glared into the television cameras and angrily declared, “It is not the business of other nations to make American foreign policy.” Barack Obama? No, Ronald Reagan.
Israel's cabinet approved today the appointment of Shai Nitzan to the position of Deputy Attorney General for Special Assignments. Nationalist activists and politicians say that as Deputy State Prosecutor for eight years Nitzan had a left-wing, anti-settlement, anti-nationalist agenda.
These people are no better than the arsonists of who set fires during the '68 riots that followed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King . Then Mayor Richard J. Daley gave police the green light to police to shoot to kill anyone seen attempting arson. People who throw firebombs into cars are murderers. There is no justification for targeting innocent people. These terrorists ought to be treated accordingly. That no one died yet from that act is a miracle.
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.
The 4th Geneva Convention does forbid government deportation or "individual or mass forcible transfers" of population into territory it occupies. But neither the Geneva Convention nor any other law prevents the establishment of voluntary settlements on an individual basis if the underlying purpose is security, public order or safety, and as long as the settlements do not involve taking private property. It is absurd to suggest that Israel "deported" its own citizens to the territories.
As president of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Synagogue, Merkin introduced Madoff to members like Mort Zuckerman and Elie Wiesel, who together took "a $2 billion bloodbath."
By JTA
The Jewish Federations of North America slammed Israeli Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar's criticism of the Israeli government's decision to pay the salaries of some non-Orthodox rabbis. "It is a fundamental Jewish virtue to ‘love your fellow as yourself.’ We condemn comments that disparage fellow Jews and, in particular, well-established branches of Judaism that represent 80 […]
Picture a family full of smiles, and joy. See all the moments they spend together and support each other, through blessed times and difficult ones. Picture the holidays filled with warmth and laughter, and the Shabbat... But then something destroys the serenity.
The government on Sunday voted to put a ministerial committee headed by the Prime Minister in charge of Jewish development in Judea and Samaria , the first time in 16 years that the establishment and expansion of Jewish communities in the biblical heartland will not come under the purview of the full government.
By JTA
Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama, Israeli President Shimon Peres called for a renewal of peace talks with the Palestinians. "Israel and the Palestinians are ripe today to restart" the peace talks, Peres said at the White House ceremony on Wednesday. "A firm basis already exists. A solution of two national states: […]
In line with the government’s plan to destroy 5 buildings in the Ulpana Hill neighborhood of Beit El, six caravilla mobile homes were delivered on Monday to house evicted families. Community leaders hope out of the ashes may come the biggest development in years.
Though leaders in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria decried the failure of Wednesday’s Knesset vote to overturn the destruction of five apartment buildings in Beit El, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved a major new construction plan to erect 300 new homes in the town, with 551 additional homes approved in four other locations.
By JTA
Israel's housing and construction ministry announced plans for up to 851 new housing units for Judea and Samaria settlements. Wednesday's announcement came in the wake of the defeat of a bill in Knesset that would have retroactively legalized the Ulpana Hill neighborhood of Beit El. Housing and Construction Minister Ariel Atias said Wednesday evening that […]
Palestinians rioters at around 11 p.m. Monday blocked with stones the Benjamin-crossing highway near the settlement of Neve Tzuf in south-west Samaria. An Israeli vehicle with four Tel Aviv residents hit the barrier and was damaged. Last week a Jewish woman was attacked at the same spot.
A mother in Beitar Illit (pronounced "ee-leet"), in the Judean Mountains west of Gush Etzion, 6 miles south of Jerusalem, lights Shabbat candles together with her daughter. Beitar Illit, named after the ancient Jewish city of Beitar, was established in 1984 and initially settled by a small group of young Religious Zionist families. The city […]
By JTA
Soon after the Methodist Church had decided not to support divestments from Israel, Canada's largest Protestant denomination is calling for a boycott of goods produced in "illegal" Israeli settlements, including East Jerusalem. In a 26-page report released May 1, the United Church of Canada calls for an economic boycott of Israel focused exclusively on settlement […]
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has announced that Israel had severed all working relations with the UN Human Rights Council as of Monday this week, and will block a U.N. fact finding team from entering Israel or Judea and Samaria to investigate Jewish settlements. Spokesman Yigal Palmor said this "means that we're not going to work with them. We're not going to let them carry out any kind of mission, including this probe."
October 2, 2026 
