Beit Romano and the Hezekiah Quarter from afar. Credit: The Jewish Community of Hebron.
After more than two decades of planning, bureaucratic hurdles and court petitions filed by opponents, the Jewish Community of Hebron is on the cusp of laying the foundations for 31 new housing units in the city’s historic Hezekiah Quarter.
The Route 60 Tunnel Road runs from Jerusalem to Gush Etzion. Photo by Justin McIntosh via Wikimedia Commons.
Israel’s Ministry of Transport and Road Safety announced this week that it has submitted an unprecedented 50 billion shekel (around $13.7 billion) budget proposal to the Ministry of Finance towards the development and improvement of transportation over the next five years.
The start of the Jerusalem Marathon on March 17, 2023. Credit: Sportphotography.
In its 12th year—its “bat mitzvah,” so to speak—the Jerusalem Winner Marathon on March 17 drew more than 40,000 runners and participants from 72 countries.
Homes in Ma’ale Adumim, Judea, Dec. 30, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Israel’s Civil Administration has once again postponed a meeting of its Higher Planning Council’s Subcommittee on Objections, meant to discuss the possible advancement of 3,412 housing units in the E1 (East-1) corridor east of Jerusalem.
A discussion at the International Halacha Institute in Jerusalem. Photo by Josh Hasten.
In a modest room that serves as a Beit Midrash (House of Torah study) atop a large synagogue in Jerusalem’s Kiryat Moshe neighborhood, a group of Israel’s leading Torah scholars is poring over the Talmud, books of halachah (Jewish law) and other holy texts.
A Palestinian holds a PLO flag and a poster calling to boycott Israeli products during a demonstration in Huwara, south of Nablus, May 22, 2021. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
On Sunday, brothers Hallel Menachem and Yagel Yaakov Yaniv, both from the community of Har Bracha, were gunned down by a terrorist at point-blank range as they drove on Route 60 through the Arab village of Huwara, just south of Shechem (Nablus).
MKs Yuli Edelstein (left) and Danny Danon (second from left) study a map during a fact-finding visit to the illegal Bedouin encampment of Khan al-Ahmar near Jerusalem, Jan 23, 2023. Photo by Josh Hasten.
Knesset member Danny Danon (Likud) on Monday morning led a fact-finding visit to a hilltop overlooking the illegal Bedouin encampment of Khan al-Ahmar, located on Highway 1 between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea.
A view of Homesh in Samaria, Nov. 17, 2022. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Israel’s new government is committed to strengthening the Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria and is therefore contesting a Supreme Court order to evacuate Homesh, Finance Minister and Minister within the Defense Ministry Bezalel Smotrich told JNS.
Palestinians take over Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus in 2000. It was under Israeli control until the tomb was attacked by a Palestinian mob. Photo by Flash90.
Since the current wave of Arab terrorism began in March, worshippers and the IDF soldiers guarding them have come under gunfire during the monthly organized pilgrimages to the Jewish holy site of Joseph’s Tomb in the city of Shechem, aka Nablus, in Samaria.
Superfan Amit Kaminsky holds aloft the colors of Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. Courtesy.
Amit Kaminsky, from Tel Aviv, describes herself as a huge soccer fan, a sport which she refers to as “football” as does most of the world outside the United States. Not only does she never miss a game of her beloved Hapoel Tel Aviv Football Club, she plays in a women’s recreational league against other teams from across the country, Kaminsky told JNS.