Homesh
“The disengagement is dead. The people of Israel live,” declared Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan.
No Israelis were wounded in the attempted attack.
Terrorists threw an explosive device at the car carrying five residents of Homesh, one of whom had survived a prior attack in the same area.
The petitioners were ordered to pay 15,000 shekels (approximately $4,000) in court costs.
Its administration calls on the government to legalize the community as “the answer to terrorism.”
A member of a mob from the nearby village of Burqa hit the victim with a stone.
Between 40 and 50 young men study Talmud and Jewish law at the Samaria institution.
The State Department is “deeply troubled” by the reopening of the Jewish school.
“This is a historic moment, a step toward rectifying the terrible injustice of the expulsion from Samaria,” says Samaria Regional Council head.
The German diplomat spoke during a tour organized by Peace Now, Yesh Din and Emek Shaveh.
Foggy Bottom had released a sharply worded statement accusing Israel of reneging on an agreement between Sharon and George W. Bush, without noting the Obama administration also ignored it.
Washington also slammed Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s visit to the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site.
