Tag: Judea and Samaria
Spanish VIPs get the message: BDS is bad for everyone
The ongoing barrage of Hamas rockets on Sunday and into Monday didn’t stop a group of 10 Spanish lawmakers, policy-shapers and journalists currently in Israel from continuing their fact-finding mission about the threats that...
International soccer group acquiesces to Israeli broadcast in Judea, Samaria
The Union of European Football Associations relented to a request by Israel’s national broadcaster to televise the Euro 2020 and 2022 World Cup qualifier soccer games, after a year of negotiation over whether the...
Israeli broadcasting authority battling football association for right to show games in Judea, Samaria
The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has refused to allow Israel’s national broadcaster, Kan, to broadcast the World Cup and Euro 2020 soccer games to Israeli television sets in Judea, Samaria or eastern...
Israel launches new medical school at Ariel University
Israel inaugurated a new medical school on Sunday, the sixth medical school in Israel, and the first in Judea and Samaria.
A ceremony at the new facility was attended by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, Education...
SodaStream sold to Pepsi for $3.2 billion in cash
Israel’s popular homemade seltzer company, SodaStream, has been sold to U.S.-based PepsiCo Inc for $3.2 billion in cash.
SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum said the sale “is validation of our mission to bring healthy, convenient and...
IDF arrests terror suspects in Judea, finds submachine gun in Barbie backpack
Israeli security forces arrested 19 terror suspects and rock-throwers in raids across Judea and Samaria overnight on Sunday, confiscating multiple illegal guns in Hebron and confiscating thousands of shekels marked to fund terror acts.
Riots...
With ‘peace’ in doubt, Israelis search for alternatives to two-state solution
The U.S. administration’s negotiating team of Jason Greenblatt and Jared Kushner left the Middle East last week after gauging interest in a new U.S.-backed peace plan to the longstanding Israeli-Palestinian conflict with top government...
Rabbis urge citizens to protest destruction of Netiv Ha’avot neighborhood
A cadre of rabbis called on the public to protest the destruction of the Netiv Ha’avot neighborhood in Gush Etzion next week, after attempts to nullify the Supreme Court-ordered razing failed.
In December 2016, the...