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"Our visit to the United Arab Emirates is a powerful symbol of the changing dynamics in the Middle East," said Yesha Council head Yisrael Ganz.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Aggression and terrorism against Jewish shepherds in Judea and Samaria have been on the rise.
Netanyahu has yet to appoint a promised project manager to tackle sanctions on Israelis in Judea and Samaria.
The move is part of the coalition agreements made with Bezalel Smotrich's party.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich denounced "unprecedented sanctions on Israeli citizens whose entire sin is that they settle in Judea and Samaria."
By Josh Hasten
The United States has blacklisted a total of seven Israelis pursuant to President Joe Biden’s Feb. 1 Executive Order, but will not reveal how it determined that they are "undermining peace, security and stability" in Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“It seems that today all will agree on putting sanctions on both Hamas and the violent settlers who are harassing Palestinians,” Joseph Borrell said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"My husband was conscripted and I needed a tool to save my children," said Esther Sultan from Beit El.
By Ariel Kahana
Six of the seven men were not known to the Shin Bet or Israel Police, an investigation shows.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
As of Jan. 1, there were 517,407 Jews living in the area (not including eastern Jerusalem).
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. president's executive order reportedly targets four Israelis Washington says "directed or participated" in violent actions or threats.
“Everywhere around Israel, there is one actor that continues to pull the strings, though its proxies, and this is Iran,” says Albania’s envoy.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Someone has got confused and forgot who is the enemy and who is the beloved,” Ben-Gvir tweeted.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The number of Jews in the area is forecast to exceed a million by 2047.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A mob of Arabs attacked a group of Israelis who were on a walking tour in the vicinity of the city Ariel in Samaria.
It was exposed that European funding was sent to leftwing organizations to demonize Israeli citizens.
Dagan accused Bennett’s government of “losing direction, it is losing it in Samaria, it is losing it in the Negev.”
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.”
By JoeSettler
Deliberate ambiguity has created resistance among those who should otherwise be supporting the application of Israeli law in Judea and Samaria. Name-calling hasn't helped either.
The challenges of living in a pioneering community.
"The [PLO] Executive Committee condemned the legislators of the American Congress and their positions towards the Palestinian people."
The NY Times dismissed the canard that Trump or Clinton were recruiting tools for ISIS yet editorialized that Israeli settlers are at the heart of the reason people join the terror group.
If it were up to me, I'd evacuate all of Chevron’s Jews & consider doing the same in Kiryat Arba
"I believe the interrogators have crossed boundaries and red lines... these dark days for civil rights in Israel."
The official PA website made no mention of the arrests and instead reported that the U.N. is concerned the case has not been solved.
Israel sent the Palestinian Authority a key to the door at the tomb, under PA control. The key was sent back along with the door.
Fatah leader Sultan Abu Enein wrote in a Twitter message in Arabic that the Palestinian Authority should arms Arabs in order "to defend themselves against the occupation and settlers."
Government lawyers admitted to the court that there was massive illegal building on the outpost, claimed by leftists as a source of violence.
By JNi.Media
(JNi.media) Riham Dawabsha, 27, mother of the late infant Ali Dawabsha and wife of the late Sa’ad Dawabsha, died Sunday night. All three sustained their lethal injuries in an arson fire that consumed two homes in Duma Village, near Ramallah, on July 31. Another son Ahmad, 4, is still in the hospital. The second home […]
Riham Dawabshe died from the third in a series of four mysterious fires that hit the Dawabshe family in Duma.
State Dept, seems surprised when being told how many Americans live in Judea and Samaria.
An Oxford University professor's new book uncovers what most Israelis know - that the Americans are not "Wild West" cowboys.
By JNi.Media
Another home from the Dawabsha clan burned down last night in Duma. There's confusion if it the fire was electrical or from a village feud.
By JNi.Media
Zionist Organization of America president Morton Klein on Tuesday cautioned against jumping to conclusions on the Duma arson.
Meir Ettinger, the Shin Bet's most wanted Jew, is suspected of leading a national underground revolutionary movement.
The IDF and police are combing Judea and Samaria to search and arrest the attackers.
"Yesha" and Binyamin Regional Council leaders said the attack "is not the path of Jews in Judea and Samaria."
By JoeSettler
Everyone is angry at the ongoing Arab terrorism, but what does murdering a baby have to do with protecting Jewish lives or furthering Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel?
If there is any truth to constant PA media allegations of vandalism of olive trees, there are not many more trees left to be destroyed.
The Palestinian Authority conditions 'peace talks' on timetable for Israel's accepting Its demands,
The PA and leftists lost twice in US courts, which threw out suits for libel and a claim against settlers' "terrorist attacks."
The Regavim NGO was attacked while passing over illegal homes bearing the EU flag in "Area C."
Girls, ages 10-13, from Efrat in Gush Etzion will square off against girls from the Galilee Arab village Sakhnin tonight in a playoff game that will determine which group will advance to the semi-finals in the girls' league. "We are involved with soccer and not politics," one of the Efrat girls said. "We really want […]
The "Yesha" crowd once again embarrasses settlers in an attempt to help them.
By JoeSettler
A number of Israeli papers regurgitated a biased AP article on settlement growth, but they should have read it more carefully before hitting publish.
“Leftists don’t care about Arabs, settlers are the true Jews. Leftists warned me I will be the first in the gas chambers."
Palestinian Authority Arabs charged that dozens of Jews from the community of Adei Ad in Samaria threw rocks and stones at their homes, vehicles and olive trees in their nearby village late Tuesday night in retaliation for theft of a horse. Adei Ad residents said that Arabs have been routinely stealing for several weeks. The […]
There was no graffiti and there is a possibility that an electric short circuit caused the fire.
Slowly but surely, the truth wins, which is why Obama is losing.
"This can't be the 'West Bank,' that's ridiculous" my mother said to me.
Why doesn't Obama also label Jerusalem Arabs as “illegitimate settlers?”
Fifty settlers raided and ransacked on Tuesday an IDF outpost that was manned by six soldiers who were deployed there to defend their attackers and neighbors in the community of Yitzhar, in northern Samaria. An IDF spokesman told The Jewish Press that the soldiers did not suffer any injuries, contrary to a report in Ynet […]
By JoeSettler
The heated debate in the settlements revolved around participating in the Haredi anti-draft rally planned for Sunday - or not.
The Obama administration is taking off its mask from its being the negotiator for the Palestinian Authority.
Rabbis and the Yesha Council are blowing a chance to prove that they are true nationalists and not country bumpkins.
The main obligation of a state toward its citizen is to provide them with security.
By JoeSettler
Threats to abandon Settlers to terrorists, and boycotts of Israel are creating opportunities that can be exploited for the good, says JoeSettler.
No one seems to remember that Netanyahu once won a stalemate with chess master Natan Sharansky.
Suspected right-wing Jewish vandals set a mosque in the Arab village of Deit Istiya in Samaria on fire late Tuesday night and painted graffiti on the mosque’s wall with hate messages such as “Revenge for spilled blood in Kusra,” referring to the village where Arabs brutally beat a group of Jews last week after the […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Britain and Germany Stop Palestinian Bid to Join International Olive Council
Move over Uri Ariel. Netanyahu has replaced you with John Kerry. No new homes for Jews in Judea and Samaria are approved without the confirmation of the Obama administration.
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas was in Lithuania this week to solidify backing for his agenda that would prevent Jews from living in Judea and Samaria and turn the areas into exclusive Palestinian Authority territory. His nine-year strategy of drumming up support with visits around the world has won him virtually universal backing. Lithuanian President […]
America as a melting pot is the biggest threat to Jews, who want to be so politically correct that even the name “Redskins” draws the ADL to ruin the party just when Americans finally have a fun issue.
The European Union has donated tents to dozens of Arabs in Area “C” in the southern Hevron Hills to help them dig in for the winter in their attempt to create “facts on the ground” and take over the region that officially is under Israeli control as agreed in the Oslo Accords. The Arabs, most […]
“Peace talks” resumed on condition of Israel’s freeing 104 terrorists, one batch at a time as a test of PA “peace.” Abbas did not keep his end of the deal, but you can count on Israel to let him off the hook.
How can the government stop building in Judea and Samaria without saying so? Simple. Just stop “settlements” from buying land from Palestinian Authority Arabs. The High Court will decide who is right.
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, […]
Circumcision has as much to do with Jews growing up to become national religious Jews as atheism has to do with Peace Now, but Israel’s anti-nationalist media think otherwise in a TV promo for "satire."
Israel and Palestinian Authority negotiators promised Kerry they would hold secret talks, without using the media to promote agendas. Israel has obliged. PA negotiator Saeb Erekat has not.
If the Prime Minister gets his way and the European Union blinks first, he could be riding high in the saddle again. If Netanyahu blinks first, he'd better run for his life.
The PA upgrades its dictionary. Bennett is a terrorist for saying real terrorists should be killed. All settlers are terrorists. PA murderers are not terrorists – they are “strugglers for their freedom.”
By JTA
Unidentified vandals slashed the tires of 21 cars and scrawled graffiti in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina in an apparent price tag attack early Monday morning. They drew a Star of David and wrote, “We do not remain silent in the face of stone throwing,” but the phrase “price tag” did not appear […]
Palestinian Authority’s New Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has refused Israeli protection and insists he will travel as he pleases in “Area C,” which supposedly is under full Israeli control. Hamdallah, who is replacing Salam Fayyad, created diplomatic crisis by his refusal to allow Israeli protection, according to the Gulf News website. “We do not know […]
The Boulder City Council Monday night decided to leave the “peace process” for those with less common sense and overwhelmingly nixed a controversial proposal to adopt Nablus, the Arab version of the Biblical city of Shechem, as a sister city. The council voted 7-2 against the proposal, according to the local ABC outlet Denver Channel, […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
When Jews vandalize mosques and monasteries, they are called ”price tag” attacks for government malign neglect of Jewish rights. When anti-Semites attack synagogues, it is not even reported.
On Thursday, Arabs launched an attack on Israelis in and near Yitzhar. It began when they ignited a large fire near an IDF tent encampment in the hope the wind would help burn down the tents. When Yitzhar residents and soldiers came over to put out the fire, the Arabs attacked them with a barrage […]
By Steven Plaut
American news headlines over the past few weeks have focused on political targeting by the Internal Revenue Service of conservative groups. But Israel is experiencing its own form of political targeting by the state. The attorney general is leading an initiative to have a small group of radical juveniles who engage in mischief declared a terrorist organization.
Thomas Friedman is ho-hum about Obama’s visit to Israel, calls him a “tourist” and calls the Palestinian Authority issue a “hobby” for US diplomats. But does anyone care what Thomas Friedman says?
By Steven Plaut
Honest Abe used exactly the same blockade tactic against the Confederacy over which the Israeli Left is now sobbing its eyes out.
Haredi leaders could not care less if Israel retains Judea and Samaria - as long as their Mosdos (religious institutions) get funded.
The violent Palestinian riots over the past week were found to be mis-founded.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Feeling abandoned, some residents of Judea and Samaria are taking security into their own hands.
If Obama calls Jews settlers, what would he call Arab attackers? Indians? Unlike “settlers,” he won’t be firebombed, stabbed, shot at or run over by Arab drivers without licenses.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Residents demand that the crimes be investigated and dealt with as they would anywhere else in Israel.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
It appears that when the dust settles after Obama's upcoming visit, Israel's housing market is very likely to take a big hit - in the form of a construction freeze.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
There are Israeli voters making some surprising and rather unexpected choices.
By Shalom Bear
Rhetoric aside, real data can answer the question as to who built the most in the Settlements.
Following the disturbances, about 30 residents arrived from the entire Shilo area to Esh Kodesh.
Can we trust Haaretz reporting on polls? After Eldar and Levy on those "apartheid" stories? Here's the latest, "For the right man, Israelis would make peace" which makes the claim that "The consensus is moving to the right, but that doesn't mean Israeli Jews won't support a deal with the PA if the right leader comes along, a new study shows."
The New Israel Fund recently announced that it “is undertaking a comprehensive survey to identify those most involved in inciting racism and violence.” Incitement to violence and intolerance is a particularly troubling problem plaguing Israeli society today. This problem is all the more severe when the incitement comes from respected public figures and political leaders. But will the New Israel Fund will also include anti-Jewish incitement coming from the Israeli Left?
A writer in the Financial Times said Judea and Samaria was the cradle of Jewish civilization, even as he lamented the slow death of the two-state solution.
Every year Palestinians and foreign activists try to blame Settlers for cutting down olive trees. But once again Settlers have caught the Palestinians and the activists on film cutting down trees, presumably to then blame the Jews.
By Shalom Bear
The IDF just released a report on reserve duty in the IDF on Thursday, the day the IDF is marking ‘Reservist Appreciation Day’. The new report shows that Settlers in Judea and Samaria have a higher reserve duty participation rate than the rest of the country. Settlers have a participation rate of 35% compared to […]
By Tzvi Fishman
"Word came that hundreds of Arabs were gathering in front of the Hevron police station, demanding the dismantlement of the Shoshana settlement. Not wanting to miss the action, the reporters scattered like roaches to their cars. For all of his supposed extremism, Caleb Cohen was right. It seemed that all the brewing tension of the Middle East had surfaced in Meir's backyard."
After being told that the Meretz activists who came to see their homes were looking to stop at a Palestinian store to buy water, residents of the Bet El neighborhood welcomed their guests with cold water and cookies.
The highly publicized IDF expulsion from Hebron’s Beit Hamachpela of Jews who purchased and were residing in it was an extraordinary event. And it does not bode well for what we can expect from the Israeli government regarding historical Jewish sites.
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.
If the recent pictures of destroyed outposts had been of Bedouin villages or illegal houses in the Galilee, the whole country would have been up in arms.
June 26, 2026 
