By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"They will establish a Palestinian state on paper, but we will build the Jewish-Israeli state here on the ground," the defense minister vowed.
By Canaan Lidor
If the captives, both living and dead, are not returned, Israel will expand the agricultural areas of the kibbutzim Be'eri and Nir Oz into the Gaza perimeter, said the Israeli finance minister.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"That's not good," the president said about the Jewish state's dimensions, adding that the country's achievements have been "amazing."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Land of Israel Caucus wants to amend Basic Law: Referendum to prevent the establishment of a "Palestinian" state.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Trump administration officials, past and present, recently have made statements in favor of Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.
After achieving normalization with other Arab countries, discussions on sovereignty in Judea and Samaria could resume.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli finance minister also called to encourage voluntary migration from Gaza, saying the Strip's population could be reduced by more than half within two years.
By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
The call for Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley is being adopted by many experts and communities in Israel. What does the King of Jordan really think about it?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Next year will be "the year of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria," declared the Israeli finance minister.
By Alex Traiman
Former Ambassador David Friedman's proposal "protects Israel's security, respects biblical covenants and affords civil rights and human dignity to all."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Trump administration reportedly assured the UAE that the U.S. would not recognize Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria until 2024 at the earliest.
Two of the new towns, Avigayil and Asael, are located in the South Hebron Hills, while the third, Beit Hogla, is part of the Megilot Regional Council near the Dead Sea.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Sovereignty Movement urged Netanyahu to refrain from using Judea and Samaria as a bargaining chip in normalization talks.
During the time of Joshua, the Israelites wanted to conquer the entire land, but lacked military strength. During the time of the Judges, they had the strength, but lacked the will.
By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
Firm and forceful security and thriving Jewish communities are essential, yet to effectively eradicate the roots of terrorism, a novel approach is required.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"If we have peace with Saudi Arabia, we are effectively going to bring an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict," Benjamin Netanyahu said.
“Israel is falsifying the facts and history in the most despicable manner. . Israel has not succeeded in proving that it has history in this city. . .excavations have not proven there is a Temple in the city."
The law fell 52 to 46.
In case the Judea & Samaria law doesn't pass, it might be time to brush up on those (really) old law books.
Reflections of Rav Soloveitchik on the Tenth Anniversary of the State of Israel and Sovereignty.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The current leadership is putting itself on the wrong side of Zionist history.
The statement and the visit to Atarot were initiated and led by Chaim Silberstein, chairman of the “Keep Jerusalem” organization.
By Josh Hasten
“We need infrastructure for both populations, so we can all thrive,” said Matanya Shapira, deputy CEO of the YESHA Council, regarding the region’s Jewish and Arab residents.
The petition begins with a quote from Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion who asserted that “without Jewish land, Zionism becomes a parody and is transformed into an empty vision.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The law would have imposed prison sentences for those working to remove Israel's sovereignty over Jerusalem.
A Resident of Gush Etzion displayed a “sovereignty” flag at Sunday's final 16 European soccer (football) championship match in Budapest between Holland and the Czech Republic.
Netanyahu blamed the (failed) rotation government on the failure to regulate the settlements in this last government.
Music, speeches and candle lighting...
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.
Menachem Zivotofsky who fought for the change was issued the first passport with "Israel" listed as his country of birth.
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 Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The anti-Israel bill is cosponsored by Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Andre Carson and Mark Pocan. The Squad+.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to the White House, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also agreed to the borders of a Palestinian state.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. administration’s peace plan can serve as a basis for a process leading to peace and security, says Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Defense for Children International-Palestine has been linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, designated a terror group by the United States and European Union.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Palestinian Authority has detained several PA Arabs who told Israeli TV journalist Zvi Yechezkeli that they support Israel’s plan to apply sovereignty in parts of Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Recognizing sovereignty over Judea and Samaria ... will allow the administration to be remembered for restoring God’s people to His promised land,” said Pastor Mario Bramnick.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"The national mission to exercise our historic right in the land of our ancestors may be in jeopardy," says Land of Israel Caucus chairman Haim Katz.
By Orit Arfa
“Germany killed 6 million Jews in World War II, in the Holocaust, and now Germany wants to tell Israel how to defend its security,” said Marcel Goldhammer, a journalist with both German and Israeli citizenship.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Odeh said he supports reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah.
The movement promises to continue its activities with the ministers, members of Knesset and politicians to bring about essential changes leading to the first step of sovereignty.
Suddenly the Palestinian Authority remembered there are Arabs living in the Jordan Valley.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The E.U. must “review and be willing to suspend or downgrade” trade and cooperation agreements with the Jewish state, says U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories.
The PA official believes Israel will find it difficult in the near future to cooperate with local institutions managing civilian life in PA areas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“It’s hell in the E.U. to try to get a common position on this,” says one diplomat.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Q: "If elections were held today between Bibi and Abu Mazen, who would win?" A: "Bibi"
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
E.U., U.N. representatives to participate in anti-sovereignty demonstration in Jericho on Monday, says Fatah Central Committee member Jibril Rajoub.
It also fires back against warnings that the move would undermine the U.S.-Israel relationship.
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.”
The US is talking to the PA via a group of businessmen from the PA.
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.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Palestinian Authority leadership is said to have directed its security forces to hide documents in at least two cities in anticipation of unrest over Israel’s looming sovereignty move.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel's plan to apply its law in parts of Judea and Samaria represents an “existential threat,” says P.A. Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh.
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 Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi also accused President Donald Trump of “acquiescence” amid the rise in anti-Semitism in the United States and abroad.
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.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Continued Israeli talk of annexing Palestinian lands must stop," tweeted UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The current prime minister outlines Israel’s five biggest challenges: rebuilding the economy; preparing for a second wave of the coronavirus; security and defense; the threat of the International Criminal Court; and applying Israeli law to the Jordan Valley and 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)
The senators originally threatened to destroy bipartisan support for Israel.
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 Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The EU is upset with Israel talking about the possible application of sovereignty.
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 Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Jewish construction will be frozen in areas outside the map lines.
By Tzvi Fishman
We need to rise up to a new stage of settlement in a positive and productive manner with a new wave of settlement…in Israeli-controlled areas distant from existing yishuvim.
While holding a meeting in their sovereignty protest test, the council leaders were invited in for a meeting with the prime minister.
By JoeSettler
Sovereignty, the elections and Trump's peace plan have been destroyed with a single interview, but Israel can still make it happen...
Two major party leaders don’t “come to Washington just for a conversation,” which poses questions as to why an initiative would be released a month before the third round of Israeli elections, says Aaron David Miller, a former Mideast negotiator.
There were strong reactions to the expected US declaration on the legality of Jewish settlement activity in Judea and Samaria.
By Ariel Kahana
The plan, which includes a $283 million expansion of the road connecting Jerusalem and Gush Etzion, aims to "end the current isolation of Judea and Samaria ... so that the area is just like any other region in Israel," according to the Transportation Ministry.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The bill states in part that “it is in the United States national security interest to ensure that Israel retains control of the Golan Heights."
“We have to take responsibility for our future!” challenged Sara Haetzni-Cohen, a scion of a prominent Gush Emunim family. “If the Land of Israel belongs to us, let’s act like it!”
The MS-13 gangsters are working together with....!
By Adam Kredo
The amendment puts America on Israel's side in the land dispute and describes the Golan Heights as a key piece of territory that cannot fall under the influence of Syria or Iran
By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
Netanyahu will need to stand firm against Trump's peace plan, just like he did against Obama's.
Israel's Ministry of Education has long fought to prevent the Palestinian Authority from infiltrating Arab schools in Jerusalem.
The ongoing chess game for sovereignty in Israel.
Avi Abelow meets the ladies who took the sovereignty campaign to the next level for Judea & Samaria.
The annexation law fallout was put behind them by these two best buddies.
“Today, nobody remembers President Reagan’s sanctions, but we are left with full Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.”
Judea and Samaria, about to become mainstream?
By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
The time when the Israeli Right lagged behind the Israeli Left and sufficed with defensive responses and with stating what not to do, is over.
Jibril Rajoub never said the Kotel would be under Israeli sovereignty.
The meaning of Jewish sovereignty.
A rift is emerging among opponents of the 2-state idea between those who believe Israel can endure as the Jewish nation/state with a large permanent Arab population west of the Jordan and those who don’t
PM Netanyahu is preparing for his Wednesday meeting with President Trump.
By Batya Medad
Israel is not part of the US; it is neither a state nor a "commonwealth." It's up to our own government led by Netanyahu. If he is clear world opinion doesn't matter, most opposition will fade away.
"Congress is willing to hold hearings about other options for the Israel-Palestinian story other than the two-state solution."
Ideas exploring Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria were discussed and debated at the fourth annual Sovereignty Conference in Jerusalem.
Any initiative to apply Jewish sovereignty to Judea-Samaria without a clear plan for dramatic reduction of its Arab population will imperil Jewish sovereignty over all territory west of the Jordan.
By JNi.Media
The poll also reveals that the vast majority of the Israeli public believe that a Palestinian state will not be established because of persistent refusal on behalf of the Palestinian Authority Arabs.
By JNi.Media
'we are in a narrow window of opportunity, it's our last chance before the world forces on us a terror state along Route 6.'
Most of the country supports applying Israel sovereignty over Maaleh Adumim.
By JNi.Media
The new campaign is banking on the fact that all of Israel's past mainstream politicians have supported the settlement enterprise, even if some of them later became its sworn enemies.