Judea and Samaria
Canadian government reviewing court decision prohibiting West Bank wine labeled ‘Products of Israel’
The court decision was part of a three-year legal dispute over bottles of Psagot Winery and Shiloh Winery from the West Bank.
Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander said Dvir Sorek, 18, “was a young man who believed in treating every human being in the image of God, no matter what religion.”
Many of the permits are for small towns, not larger settlement blocs; three small towns were retroactively legalized.
The man, who cannot be named due to concerns for his safety, lost his job and faced death threats after coming to the rescue of Israeli children wounded in a 2016 terrorist attack.
P.A. Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh: “We will deal with all areas as if they are Area A” • Deputy Minister Ahmed Ghoneim: “The terms ‘A,’ ‘B’ and ‘C’ no longer exist to us.”
Far-left activist Guy Hirschfeld petitioned for a restraining order against the Zionist organization Im Tirtzu, which has been filming his interactions with Israeli soldiers.
Ministers unanimously support measure that will also grant 6,000 building permits to Jewish towns • Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “For the first time ever, the State of Israel will implement its sovereignty over the entire territory and take responsibility for what happens inside it.”
Senior government officials said that the plan is an “extremely sensitive” matter.
“There are few things as difficult and intractable as Middle East politics, and the presence of Israeli settlements in the West Bank raises difficult, deeply felt and sensitive political issues,” wrote Justice Anne Mactavish.
Three men were arrested in a joint IDF-Shin Bet raid on suspicion of funneling Hamas money from the Gaza Strip to terrorist operatives in Judea and Samaria.
The idea was proposed as part of the deal’s economic component, released last month during the economic summit in Bahrain.
“We don’t uproot people; we’re done with that nonsense,” declares Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
