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.
Members of the University of Arizona’s basketball team lead a clinic in Jerusalem, Aug. 13, 2023. Photo: Josh Hasten.
Temperatures were scorching outside in Jerusalem on Sunday—and the competition was heating up indoors at a local gym as well, with some of the top college basketball players in the United States, representing the University of Arizona, leading young Israeli hoopsters in a clinic of drills and games.
The Jewish town of Karnei Shomron in Judea and Samaria, June 4, 2020. Photo by Sraya Diamant/Flash90.
Supporters of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria had double cause for celebration this week.
A view of Homesh, in Samaria, on Nov. 17, 2022. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
The head of the Israel Defense Forces’ Central Command on Thursday signed off on an order allowing Israelis to return to what was once the northern Samaria community of Homesh.
Hundreds of Jewish men pray at the Joseph’s Tomb compound in Nablus on June 10, 2013. Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90.
Thousands of Jewish worshippers took part in the monthly pilgrimage to Joseph’s Tomb in the Palestinian Authority-controlled town of Nablus (Shechem) on Tuesday night, making it the largest delegation to the holy site since the onset of the pandemic.
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.
Amal Sumarin, her sons and their attorney arrives for a court hearing regarding the JNF-KKL appeal to evict them from their family home at the District Court in Jerusalem on June 30, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
After a 30-year legal battle, a Jerusalem court has ruled that the Sumarin family must vacate a property located in eastern Jerusalem and return it to its rightful owners. The family has been supported by some 30 left-wing organizations with many funded by the European Union.
This isn’t the first time that garbage has been an issue. Here, dumping outside the Palestinian village of Rammun, Dec. 8, 2014. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
“We find it implausible that the Palestinian Authority managed to hide thousands of trucks dumping garbage over the side of a cliff along a major highway for weeks on end,” said Regavim, which is pressing for cleanup and a resolution to the situation.