Judea and Samaria

Dec

2021

Israeli Startup Helps Businesses in Judea and Samaria Navigate Economic, Political Challenges

Ora Uziel, an artist from Samaria. Bikurim helped subsidize her e-commerce website. Credit: Bikurim.

Lenny Goldberg, who immigrated to Israel back in the 1980s from New York, runs a small business out of his community of Tapuach in Samaria. Goldberg’s company, called “Luna-na,” caters to birthday parties, summer camps and other special events for children and adults alike throughout the country by providing a variety of inflatable bouncy castles and other similar entertainment play devices for his clients.

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Jul

2021

New Government Criticized for Approving Lackluster Building Projects in Judea and Samaria

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett gives a press conference in Jerusalem on July 06, 2021. Photo by Amit Shabi/Flash90

At the end of June, the new Israeli government led by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett approved 31 new building projects throughout Judea and Samaria. The projects were green-lighted by the subcommittee on Jewish “settlements” within the Civil Administration.

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Jun

2021

Maccabi Ma’ale Adumim Marks a First in Israeli Basketball History

Maccabi Ma’ale Adumim basketball team, June 2021. Credit: Courtesy.

For the first time in Israeli professional basketball history, a team from over the so-called “Green Line” has secured a spot in Israel’s second-highest tier league—known as Liga Leumit, or the National League—by finishing the “tier three” league standings as No. 1.

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May

2021

For Now, Ceasefire Prompts Calm as Israel Institutes ‘Law and Order’ Campaign

Israeli police officers secure a Jewish school following recent clashes between Jewish and Arab residents of Lod, in central Israel, on May 23, 2021. Photo by Flash90.

Even though the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect on May 21, the fact that Hamas isn’t launching rockets and the Israeli military isn’t striking back at terror targets in the Gaza Strip doesn’t mean that peace has broken out between Israelis and Arabs.

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Mar

2021

Netanyahu Campaigning in Judea/Samaria

The Land of Israel · Israel Uncensored: Netanyahu Campaigning in Judea/Samaria

On today’s Israel Uncensored with Josh Hasten, Josh discusses some of the comments made by Prime Minister Netanyahu on a visit yesterday to Gush Etzion. The Prime Minister promised that if elected to another term he would work on authorizing some of the “young communities,” throughout Judea and Samaria, which have received government support but have not gotten a final stamp of approval. The Prime Minister used his visit to make his case as to why the Israeli public should back his Likud Party in the March 23 Knesset Elections.

Mar

2021

Abraham Accords Sees Sweet Results in Form of D’vash Business Cooperation

From left: Co-founder of D’vash Organics David Czinn; D’vash Organics co-founder and CEO Brian Finkel; Mohamed Saleem, founder and owner of Al Barakah; Yousuf Saleem, Mohamed’s older son and managing director of Al Barakah; and Mohamed’s younger son, Abdulkarim Saleem. Photo by Mubarak Taj.

Brian Finkel reached out to Dubai-based Al Barakah Dates Factory, and without knowing he lived in Israel, it became his largest supplier. As the relationship grew, the two companies ended up forming a strategic partnership that is becoming representative of the region.

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Feb

2021

EU Living in ‘Alternate Universe’ Over Criticism of Construction in Strategic Jerusalem Neighborhood

A view of the mostly empty Givat Hamatos neighborhood of Jerusalem, just minutes from the city’s center. Credit: Josh Hasten.

The decision by the Israel Lands Authority last month to award contracts to several building companies allowing them to begin marketing 1,257 new housing units in Jerusalem’s 42-acre southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Givat Hamatos has been applauded by some, while also garnering international attention, including rousing condemnation from others.

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Feb

2021

The Ongoing Battle Over Illegal Construction in Judea and Samaria

View of the Jewish settlement of Nokdim, in the West Bank. Oct. 24, 2017. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90.

According to Gabi Harow, a resident of the Israeli settlement of Nokdim in Gush Etzion, there have been massive changes in the landscape since he moved to the community with his family in 2012.

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Feb

2021

Comparing Kindergartens to Terrorism

The Land of Israel · Israel Uncensored: Comparing Kindergartens to Terrorism

On today’s Israel Uncensored with Josh Hasten, the US State Department Spokesman called on Israel the other day to refrain from building in Judea and Samaria and in the same breath called on the PA to stop paying the salaries of terrorists. Can a comparison really be made between the construction of new kindergartens, and terrorist rewards for murdering Israeli civilians? The new US State Department apparently thinks so. Plus for the first time ever the KKL-JNF is considering to openly fund the purchase of land from Arabs in Judea and Samaria in order to help develop more Jewish communities there. The final vote on the matter will be held after Israel’s elections. Plus all the latest news from Israel on this week’s show.

Feb

2021

Report Projects 1 Million Jewish Israelis in West Bank by 2045

A general view of the Jewish community of Karnei Shomron in Samaria, June 4, 2020. Photo by Sraya Diamant/Flash90.

The latest edition of the “West Bank Jewish Population Stats Report,” commissioned annually by former Member of Knesset and National Union Party head Yaakov “Ketzaleh” Katz, shows a 2.62 percent growth in 2020, and a 17 percent in growth in the past five years, in the number of Jews who live in Judea and Samaria, more commonly known as the West Bank. According to the report, some 475,481 Jews currently call these regions home.

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