Judea and Samaria
A group of 15 Jewish families in Hebron took up residence in two buildings situated near the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, which they have named the House of Rachel and the House of Leah.
The construction of permanent homes will begin in the coming months and is slated to reach 102 houses. Yet roughly a third of them will have to pass legal hurdles, as new petitions have been filed by Palestinians who claim the land demarcated for the homes belongs to them.
The Palestinians are debating who will succeed after Mahmoud Abbas, what kind of pressure they can put on Israel and the United States, and where the different factions are headed.
Israeli dignitaries addressed a crowd that opposes the BDS movement and came to hear an update on the contentious area.
Said Israel’s Consul General to New York Dani Dayan: “If we are foreigners to Judea and Samaria, then of course we are foreigners to Tel Aviv.”
It will enable the only university in the disputed territories to advance plans to develop a medical school.
Troops confiscated four handguns, three air-powered guns, four commando knives, military equipment such as holsters, harnesses and gun mounts, and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
The Judea and Samaria sovereignty bill, submitted by MK Yoav Kish (Likud) calls for “unrestricted construction and to extend Israeli law and sovereignty” throughout all Israeli-controlled areas in the West Bank.
Residents of the Netiv Ha’avot neighborhood in northern Judea expressed dismay over the continuation of plans to destroy 16 homes that were found to have been built on unauthorized land,
UNHRC published an interim report on companies engaging in business with Israeli settlements, but stopped short of naming the companies, citing the complexity of the issue.
The Irish Senate postponed a vote on a controversial bill that would criminalize trade with Israeli settlements just hours after the Israeli government protested the measure.
For Israeli security personnel who guard the strategically significant Route 443, one of only two highways connecting Jerusalem to Israel’s coastal plain along the Mediterranean Sea, the difference between stopping contraband food or an armed terrorist isn’t very large.
