Tag: Judea and Samaria
Jewish groups ask Homeland Security chief to maintain ‘Made in Israel’ label policy
Together with 24 pro-Israel Jewish and rabbinic groups, the Zionist Organization of America spearheaded a letter to U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday urging him to maintain the current U.S. policy...
ZOA urges Biden to keep in place new ‘Made in Israel’ labeling policy
The Zionist Organization of America called on U.S. President Joe Biden not to succumb to pressure by anti-Israel organizations that want him to revoke a new U.S. policy on labeling goods from Judea and...
Abraham Accords sees sweet results in form of D’vash business cooperation
The U.S.-brokered normalization deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates in the fall of last year has already helped foster many new business relationships between Jews and Muslims who live in those respective...
Left-wing Jewish groups urge Biden not to enforce Trump’s ‘Made in Israel’ label policy
Six left-wing Jewish organizations asked the Biden administration on Tuesday to revoke a policy by the former Trump administration to label goods from Judea and Samaria, more commonly known as the West Bank, as...
The ongoing battle over illegal construction in Judea and Samaria
According to Gabi Harow, a resident of the Israeli settlement of Nokdim in Gush Etzion, there have been massive changes in the landscape since he moved to the community with his family in 2012.
“The...
UAE embraces trade with Israeli-owned businesses in Judea and Samaria
The Psagot Winery sits on the peaks of the Binyamin region mountains in Judea and Samaria, north of Jerusalem and just east of Ramallah. Though Psagot and many Israeli-owned businesses operating over the 1967...
West Bank facts on the ground cannot be ignored
Palestinian and American officials had on Monday their first formal public contact since 2017. The Palestinian Authority refused to speak to the Trump administration for years because of anger over the moving of the...
Israel headed towards 1 million residents living in the West Bank
The latest edition of the “West Bank Jewish Population Stats Report,” commissioned annually by former Member of Knesset and National Union Party head Yaakov “Ketzaleh” Katz, shows a 2.62 percent growth in 2020, and a 17 percent in...
Meet Ashraf Jabari: The Palestinian populist
With a mask resting below his mouth, which just took in its third or fourth cigarette of the last hour, Palestinian reformer and businessman Asharf Jabari said he hasn’t received the COVID vaccine yet....
Ariel University awards first honorary doctorate to former US ambassador
Israel’s Ariel University in Samaria announced on Sunday that it will award its first honorary doctorate to outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman “in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to the diplomatic...