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.
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.
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.
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.
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.