JNS

Apr

2024

Judea and Samaria face new reality of aerial terrorism

Binyamin Regional Council head Israel Ganz (in black T-shirt) and IDF Central Command Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fox (on Ganz’s left) during the search for 14-year-old shepherd Binyamin Achimeir. Credit: Binyamin Regional Council Spokesperson.

The more than half a million Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria are no strangers to terrorism. In 2023, the region saw a 350% increase in terrorist attacks compared to the previous year. There were 300 shooting attacks last year, the most since the second intifada in the early 2000s.

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Apr

2024

Will the US port in Gaza deliver ‘aid’ into the hands of Hamas?

President Biden announced that the US Navy is opening a port to deliver aid to Gaza. Can this be successful or even properly inspected? Does this shift scrutiny away from Israel? Is this part of a larger effort by the Biden administration to isolate and undermine Netanyahu and the Israeli government?
JNS CEO Alex Traiman and Middle East Correspondent Josh Hasten break this down along with
– Biden’s come-to-Jesus Netanyahu comment
– Ramadan violence
– The Haredi draft crisis and much more!

Mar

2024

US sanctions Israeli ‘settlers,’ but won’t reveal its sources

A Jewish settler rides his horse near the outpost of Ramat Migron on Sept. 8, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

This week, the United States sanctioned another three Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria, accusing them of “undermining peace, security, and stability in the West Bank.”

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Mar

2024

Israeli officials blast new Biden admin sanctions over ‘settler violence’

A Jewish resident of Judea and Samaria herds sheep near his community, Aug. 20, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

For the second time in as many months, the U.S. State Department, in coordination with the U.S. Treasury, is again issuing financial sanctions against Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria.

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Mar

2024

Families of fallen soldiers dedicate IDF base synagogue to loved ones

Soldiers and families of soldiers who fell in battle against Hamas pray at the renovated synagogue at the Lamed-Hey IDF base in Gush Etzion on Mon., March 4, 2024. Photo: Josh Hasten.

Family members of 16 soldiers from Gush Etzion and Efrat who fell defending the State of Israel since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre gathered on Monday at a military base in the Gush’s western foothills to dedicate the base’s newly expanded synagogue in memory of their loved ones.

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Feb

2024

Blinken’s reversal of ‘Pompeo doctrine’ all about politics, experts say

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on a phone call with U.S. officials, including the president, about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strategy against Hamas on Oct. 11, 2023, in the Oval Office. Credit: Adam Schultz/White House.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday appeared to reverse the Trump administration’s “Pompeo doctrine,” which stated that civilian Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria were not necessarily illegal according to international law.

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Feb

2024

Judea and Samaria leaders, NGOs blast ICJ proceedings

The International Court of Justice courtroom at The Hague. Photo by Ankor Light/Shutterstock.

Leaders of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, along with Zionist Israeli NGOs, have expressed their ire about the hearings currently taking place at the United Nations’ International Court of Justice in the Hague (ICJ) regarding Israel’s legal right to maintain a presence in those often-politicized regions of the country.

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Feb

2024

New York Radio Talk-Show Host Sid Rosenberg Visits Israel for First Time

Sid Rosenberg at the JNS studio in Jerusalem, January 2024. Photo by Josh Hasten.

Unapologetic and unfiltered, New York conservative radio talk show host Sid Rosenberg is in Israel this week, touring the country and broadcasting his four-hour top-rated morning show “Sid & Friends in the Morning” live to his 77 WABC audience, from the Jerusalem studios of JNS news.

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Jan

2024

Jewish Students Visit Israel, Learning How to Confront Campuses ‘Rampant with Antisemitism’

A delegation of pro-Israel student leaders from prominent U.S. universities who have witnessed significant rising antisemitism visit Israel to learn firsthand about the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks, Dec. 28, 2023. Credit: Office of Knesset member Danny Danon.

During a visit to the Knesset in Jerusalem on Thursday, Jacob Klatzker, a student at the University of Washington in Seattle, told JNS his campus has been “rampant with antisemitism” since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel and the ensuing military response by the Israel Defense Forces, now in its third month of battling the terrorist organization based in the Gaza Strip.

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Sep

2023

Friends, Family Mark Ari Fuld’s Fifth Yahrzeit in Kfar Etzion

Event host Stephen Leavitt addresses the audience at the 5th Yartzheit of Ari Fuld, in Kfar Etzion in Judea, Sept. 21, 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

JNS contributor and podcaster Yishai Fleisher, who also serves as the international spokesperson for the Jewish community of Hebron, received the second annual “Lion of Zion” Prize for his work in fulfilling Fuld’s legacy.

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