Israel’s flag football team. Credit: American Football in Israel.
The biannual tournament was originally scheduled to take place in Denmark in 2020 but was postponed due to the worldwide coronavirus pandemic.
A view of the Old City walls and the surroundings, including the Church of Dormition, from a rooftop in Jerusalem, Sept. 7, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
The Regavim Movement, a research-based think tank and lobbying group dedicated to preserving Israel’s resources and sovereignty, has filed a petition against the Jerusalem Municipality, demanding enforcement against what they allege is an illegal subterranean tunnel dug by the Church of the Dormition on Mount Zion in the Old City of Jerusalem.
From left: Co-founder of D’vash Organics David Czinn; D’vash Organics co-founder and CEO Brian Finkel; Mohamed Saleem, founder and owner of Al Barakah; Yousuf Saleem, Mohamed’s older son and managing director of Al Barakah; and Mohamed’s younger son, Abdulkarim Saleem. Photo by Mubarak Taj.
Brian Finkel reached out to Dubai-based Al Barakah Dates Factory, and without knowing he lived in Israel, it became his largest supplier. As the relationship grew, the two companies ended up forming a strategic partnership that is becoming representative of the region.
A view of the mostly empty Givat Hamatos neighborhood of Jerusalem, just minutes from the city’s center. Credit: Josh Hasten.
The decision by the Israel Lands Authority last month to award contracts to several building companies allowing them to begin marketing 1,257 new housing units in Jerusalem’s 42-acre southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Givat Hamatos has been applauded by some, while also garnering international attention, including rousing condemnation from others.
View of the Jewish settlement of Nokdim, in the West Bank. Oct. 24, 2017. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90.
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.
Ze’ev Elkin speaks on May 18 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
At the end of December, Likud minister and longtime confidant to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Ze’ev Elkin stunned the Israeli political community by announcing that he was leaving the party. Elkin decided to join forces with the newly formed New Hope party led by Netanyahu’s top rival, Gideon Sa’ar, who also bolted Likud in order to challenge the incumbent premier for his job.
A general view of the Jewish community of Karnei Shomron in Samaria, June 4, 2020. Photo by Sraya Diamant/Flash90.
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 growth in the past five years, in the number of Jews who live in Judea and Samaria, more commonly known as the West Bank. According to the report, some 475,481 Jews currently call these regions home.
Family and friends attend the Dec. 22 funeral of Tal Menashe resident Esther Horgen, who was killed in a terrorist attack on Dec. 21, 2020. Photo by Meir Vaknin/Flash90.
Benjamin Horgen said he has been focused on “continuing in Esther’s path of positive thinking and seeing the good in life,” while at the same time noting that he has been thrust into the realm of Israel advocacy.
Israeli women get together to run as a group in memory of Esther Horgen, whose body was found on Dec. 21, 2020. Source: Facebook (used with permission).
Israelis woke up on Monday to the horrible news that the lifeless body of 52-year-old Esther Horgen, a mother of six from the community of Tel Menashe in Samaria, was found at around 2 a.m. in a forest near her home after she went for a power walk on Sunday afternoon and never returned. Her husband, Benjamin, alerted security officials when she didn’t make it back.
Jordan Valley Regional Council head David Elhayani. Credit: Meir Elipur
A new campaign has been launched by Israel’s Sovereignty Movement to encourage the application of Israeli law over those areas by the government, starting with the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea area, before Donald Trump’s presidency comes to an end.