Heroes of Judea and Samaria: In Dogged Pursuit of Protecting Israel
It’s one o’clock in the morning. Yekutiel Ben Yakov, a stout, rugged K-9 expert in Samaria, receives an emergency phone call from the Israeli police, imploring Ben Yakov to deploy a highly trained K-9 team to help locate a high-risk case of a soldier gone AWOL. Though Ben Yakov craves a good night’s sleep after […]
Heroes of Judea and Samaria: The Lone Rancher in Judea dreaming of the Third Temple
Lior Tal lives on his ranch with his wife Racheli, their five kids, 150 sheep, a few ducks and horses, some guard dogs, and a donkey. The Mitzpe Neve Ori ranch is parallel to Bethlehem and strategically located between Jerusalem and Hebron, with Bethlehem to its immediate east. Anyone driving there must drive off-road on […]
Heroes of Judea and Samaria: The man who saved Efrat’s hills
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Josh Adler was just seventeen when he decided to leave a comfortable American life for Israel, then a slowly developing country. His grandparents came from Germany, but were not Holocaust survivors, having emigrated to America just before the first window of the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom was smashed. Adler […]
Heroes of Judea and Samaria: Hearing the Music of the Land of Israel
A story is told of a Jewish boy named Yankle who was suffering from a serious illness in 19th century Poland. His doctor recommended that he be sent to a farm in the countryside where he could gain strength and vigor by working the land. Desperately hoping for a cure, Yankle’s Orthodox Jewish parents agreed […]
Heroes of Judea and Samaria: The Godfather of Judea’s Jewish settlement
While many Israelis contributed to the settlement of Judea and Samaria, few have accomplished as much as Benny Katzover. The 75-year-old “legend” of Judean pioneering is the father of seven kids and boasts over twenty grandchildren. Standing in front of Mount Kabir in Samaria, the grey-haired Katzover recalls how he quit his pursuit of academic […]
10,000-tree forest to be planted in Samaria to celebrate ten years of Israel365
The act of planting trees figures prominently in the Bible. “I will plant cedars in the wilderness, Acacias and myrtles and oleasters; I will set cypresses in the desert, Box trees and elms as well,” reads the 41st chapter of the book of Isaiah. “That men may see and know, Consider and comprehend That Hashem’s […]
Three fathers leaving 11 orphans: Who were the victims of the Ariel terror attack
As a young woman, Yonit Ashkenazi had already experienced the brutality of terrorism. In 1979, her brother David was killed in a terror attack. Over 40 years later, another terrorist slayed her husband. Moti Ashkenazi, 59, was one of the three Israelis killed in Ariel on Tuesday. A father of three from Yavne, Moti also […]
UN wants the ICC to charge Israel with “Illegally Occupying Palestine.” Some Experts Disagree
The UN passed a resolution to try Israel in the International Criminal Court for the crime of “illegally occupying the Palestinian Territories” last week. But at least one expert in international law refutes the charges, explaining that not only is there no “illegal occupation”, and Israel has the right to annex Judea and Samaria. On […]
Will the new Israeli government repeal the law prohibiting the sale of land in Judea and Samaria to Jews?
When Israel conquered Judea and Samaria in the 1967 Six-Day War, the existing laws governing the region that were put in place during the Jordanian occupation were allowed to stand in the hopes that political negotiations were imminent and would determine the status of the region. These negotiations have yet to succeed so Judea and […]
If Jesus Was A Jew, How Can Jews Be Occupiers?
No one disputes that Jesus was Jewish. His mom was Jewish, all of his friends, colleagues – all of them were Jewish.
