Judea and Samaria

Friedman: Biden Admin ’Embracing BDS’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (center) and then-American Ambassador David Friedman, April 2018. Credit: U.S. Embassy in Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (center) and then-American Ambassador David Friedman, April 2018. Credit: U.S. Embassy in Israel.

U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller confirmed on Monday that the United States would be freezing scientific and technological cooperation with Israeli entities in areas over the 1949 armistice line, i.e. in Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights and parts of Jerusalem.’U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller confirmed on Monday that the United States would be freezing scientific and technological cooperation with Israeli entities in areas over the 1949 armistice line, i.e. in Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights and parts of Jerusalem.

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State Department Willing to Leave the Beach to Bash Israel

On Saturday, 17 people were killed, including civilians in Khartoum, Sudan in a war taking place in that country. At the same time, ISIS terrorists murdered 37, including school children in Uganda. Yet not a peep from the US State Department, and a mild condemnation from a minor UN body. However, a day later, on Sunday, when the folks in the US are usually enjoying a day off, a State Department spokesman left the beach (so to speak) in order to condemn Israel for announcements that it is approving the construction of 4,500 homes in Judea and Samaria, and that the process for building approvals in Judea and Samaria would be less bureaucratic. Talk about obsessive hypocrisy! Plus, the other latest news from Israel, on this week’s Israel Uncensored with Josh Hasten.

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Hebron Gets Ready to Build

Beit Romano and the Hezekiah Quarter from afar. Credit: The Jewish Community of Hebron.

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.

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$960 Million Earmarked to Improve Transportation in Judea and Samaria

The Route 60 Tunnel Road runs from Jerusalem to Gush Etzion. Photo by Justin McIntosh via Wikimedia Commons.

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.

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Planning Session on Homes for E1 Postponed, Again

Homes in Ma'ale Adumim, Judea, Dec. 30, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

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.

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Transport Minister Vows to Complete Huwara Bypass Road Frozen Under Previous Government

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.

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).

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