Tag: Judea and Samaria
Jews and Arabs gather in annual Sukkat Shalom in Judea
Over 100 Arabs and Jews gathered Monday at the home of Efrat Mayor Oded Revivi to put religious coexistence on display on the final day of the Jewish festival of Sukkot.
The gathering was attended...
Four terrorists killed, two IDF soldiers wounded in clashes during pursuit of Hamas operatives
Palestinian gunmen opened fire on Israel Defense Forces troops conducting a counterterrorism operation in the Jenin and Ramallah areas in the early hours of Sunday morning, the IDF said in a statement.
At least four...
Irsaeli public security minister announces inquiry committee into prison break
Israel’s Public Security Minister Omar Bar-Lev announced on Thursday the formation of a government inquiry commission to examine the failures that enabled the escape of six convicted Palestinian terrorists from Gilboa Prison on Monday.
The decision was...
Palestinian prisoners riot as hunt for escaped terrorists enters fourth day
Riots broke out across the Judea and Samaria on Wednesday evening, and fires broke out at several Israeli prisons, amid rising pressure on the government and security forces to find six Palestinian terrorists who escaped a maximum-security facility...
Hamas ‘should be very worried’ by Israel’s maneuver towards Abbas
Hamas has good reason to be concerned by the recent meeting between Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, a former senior Israeli defense official told JNS.
According to...
Approval for thousands of housing units in Judea and Samaria pushed off to unknown...
Approval of 2,223 new housing units slated for Jewish residents in Judea and Samaria has been postponed to an unknown date after the council responsible for approving them failed to meet on Wednesday, Kan News reported.
The...
Palestinians erect flaming swastika, Star of David near Evyatar outpost
Palestinians erected a burning swastika and Star of David on Saturday night during riots in the village of Beita in Samaria, near the evacuated outpost of Evyatar.
The riots, which have included burning tires and...
Republican senators introduce bill to ban anti-Semitic country-of-origin labels
A group of Senate Republicans led by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) introduced a bill on Thursday that would prevent the Biden administration’s State Department or U.S. Customs and Border Protection to rescind late 2020...
Deceptive nature of current quiet in the West Bank
A recent mass arrest of Hamas members in the West Bank offers a glimpse into the deceptive nature of the ongoing quiet in the area and how hard the terror organization based in the...
‘Ben & Jerry’s will regret the day they boycotted Israel’
The decision by ice-cream giant Ben & Jerry’s to pull its business beyond the Green Line means that under U.S. law its parent company, Unilever, has lost the right to protect the brand’s trademark...