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Sun, 11 Aug 2024 09:27:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 https://www.jewishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/JP-Logo-200.jpg https://www.jewishpress.com 32 32 https://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/report-biden-administration-mulls-sanctions-against-israeli-ministers-ben-gvir-smotrich/2024/07/21/ Sat, 20 Jul 2024 21:02:56 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=699318 The president allegedly . . . believed the US should not impose sanctions on elected officials in other sovereign democratic nations. ]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/us-still-hasnt-seen-enough-day-after-gaza-planning-from-israel-blinken-says/2024/07/02/ Tue, 02 Jul 2024 07:42:57 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=696656 “Israel has effectively lost sovereignty in the northern quadrant of its country, because people don’t feel safe to go to their homes,” per the U.S. secretary of state.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/a-new-palestinian-authority-municipality-is-born-in-israels-area-c/2024/06/16/ Sun, 16 Jun 2024 05:56:16 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=694534 The new “township” is adjacent to the Judean Desert nature reserve designated under the Wye Agreement (“Oslo Accords III) as a no-construction zone in Area C, under full Israeli jurisdiction per international law.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/denmark-decides-not-to-recognize-palestinian-state/2024/05/28/ Tue, 28 May 2024 17:40:49 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=692021 "We cannot recognize an independent Palestinian state for the sole reason that the preconditions are not really there."]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/israel-recalls-ambassadors-as-3-european-countries-recognize-palestinian-authority-as-a-state/2024/05/22/ Wed, 22 May 2024 09:07:12 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=691190 "Israel will not allow this to pass in silence."]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/the-knesset/israel-cancels-disengagement-law-for-northern-samaria/2024/05/22/ Wed, 22 May 2024 08:53:13 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=691187 "The State of Israel today corrected in a state and official manner the injustice and folly of the expulsion from northern Samaria."]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/the-knesset/mk-illouz-introduces-bill-to-annex-jordan-valley-on-oct-7-2024/2024/04/07/ Sun, 07 Apr 2024 14:39:05 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=685313 "Imposing sovereignty over the Jordan Valley will also close the option for establishing a Palestinian state."]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/settlements-israel/four-israeli-towns-receive-permanent-yishuv-symbol/2024/04/06/ Sat, 06 Apr 2024 20:22:46 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=685230 A Yishuv symbol is the final stamp on a new community in Israel that is accepted by the Ministry of the Interior. The symbol is approved as part of the settlement process.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/sovereignty/smotrich-to-take-away-from-central-command-control-over-illegal-construction/2024/03/18/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:17:34 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=682390 Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich wants to appoint his man to the post of Deputy Head of the Civil Administration, with powers over the enforcement of illegal construction in Jewish settlements and outposts in Judea and Samaria, Haaretz reported Sunday night. As a result, the commanders of the regional divisions in Judea and Samaria will have […]]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/sovereignty/israeli-citizens-block-german-initiated-transfer-of-gazans-to-bethlehem/2024/03/12/ Tue, 12 Mar 2024 07:08:45 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=681433 The German request defied the Israeli government’s stated policy that Egypt should open the Rafah crossings to all manner of suffering Gazan Arabs, orphans included.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/temple-mount-har-habayit/gantz-eisenkot-gallant-pressuring-netanyahu-to-yank-ben-gvir-from-temple-mount-decision-making/2024/02/29/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 07:05:10 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=679858 Sowing strife and dissent * Gallant on automatic * The State Dept. and religious freedom, don’ get me started * Let 1,000 Hamas flowers bloom.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/disgrace-us-house-speaker-slams-bidens-policy-on-settlements/2024/02/25/ Sun, 25 Feb 2024 15:50:43 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=679170 “The Biden administration must stop undermining Israel and facilitating efforts to delegitimize Israel. It is misguided and unconscionable.”]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/biden-administration-reverses-pompeo-doctrine-delegitimizes-israels-right-to-area-c/2024/02/24/ Sat, 24 Feb 2024 19:31:07 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=679091 Blinken: "New settlements are counterproductive to reaching an enduring peace. They’re also inconsistent with international law." But no new settlements were authorized by Israel this week!]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/bank-leumi-bows-to-us-freezes-accounts-of-sanctioned-israeli/2024/02/04/ Sun, 04 Feb 2024 18:08:46 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=675972 "Part of that message is not just to the Government of Israel, but also to . . . let them know that the United States Government is watching and will take action."]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/left-vs-right/thousands-including-ministers-mks-gather-to-declare-oslo-and-the-gush-katif-expulsion-dead/2024/01/29/ Mon, 29 Jan 2024 08:57:23 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=675131 “Part of the fixing of the mistake, the recognition of the sin of the conceptzia that led to the expulsion and to October 7, is to return home!”]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/settlements-israel/survey-majority-of-israeli-jews-support-reestablishment-of-israeli-communities-in-gaza/2024/01/29/ Mon, 29 Jan 2024 08:17:16 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=675135 Two-thirds of Israeli Jews favor IDF security control in Gaza post-war.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/settlements-israel/israelis-plan-to-resettle-gaza-convention-set-for-sunday-in-jerusalem/2024/01/27/ Sat, 27 Jan 2024 19:21:34 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=674889 The names of the towns that are planned are to be presented during Sunday's gathering. ]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/palestinian-authority/joshuas-tomb-again-defaced-with-hamas-support-swastikas/2023/12/24/ Sun, 24 Dec 2023 18:06:42 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=669784 "The fact that such an incident is happening for the second time in two weeks indicates serious damage to Israeli deterrence, which must be restored."]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/judea-samaria-israel/idf-drills-for-oct-7-type-attack-in-judea-and-samaria/2023/12/23/ Sat, 23 Dec 2023 18:39:03 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=669629 The exercise was one of various scenarios the IDF is preparing for in Judea and Samaria following the invasion by Hamas terrorists from the Gaza Strip.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/temple-mount-har-habayit/arabs-threaten-violence-over-jerusalem-chanukah-march/2023/12/07/ Thu, 07 Dec 2023 08:18:33 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=667187 MK Yair Lapid join the Jordanians, the PA and Hamas in condemning the march.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/palestinian-authority-uses-illegal-construction-unesco-to-wage-war-on-israeli-heritage-sites/2023/09/26/ Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:51:50 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=657477 “The main goal of the Palestinian Authority is forcing [people] to forget the heritage."]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-east/saudi-arabia/saudi-fm-no-palestinian-state-no-normalization/2023/09/19/ Tue, 19 Sep 2023 05:55:53 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=656620 There is no reason to think the Saudis want anything less as a condition for normalization, in addition to US security guarantees and nuclear technology.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/israel-slams-unesco-decision-to-label-tel-jericho-as-palestinian-heritage-site/2023/09/17/ Sun, 17 Sep 2023 17:56:47 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=656463 Israel slammed the decision, which it said was made “despite the many and sincere efforts of the Secretary-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, to balance the decision."]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/sovereignty/uae-envoy-powerless-to-stop-israel-from-applying-sovereignty/2023/09/14/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:27:33 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=656314 The Trump administration reportedly assured the UAE that the U.S. would not recognize Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria until 2024 at the earliest.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/judea-samaria-israel/pa-arabs-crash-event-spotlighting-illegal-arab-city-in-gush-etzion-nature-reserve/2023/09/07/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 16:00:15 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=655284 Gush Etzion Regional Council head Shlomo Ne'eman said the illegal construction would surround the Israeli enclave.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/settlements-israel/legal-borders-of-three-new-judea-communities-approved/2023/09/07/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 15:09:30 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=655231 Two of the new towns, Avigayil and Asael, are located in the South Hebron Hills, while the third, Beit Hogla, is part of the Megilot Regional Council near the Dead Sea.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/judea-samaria-israel/israeli-minister-calls-farmers-best-guardians-of-judea-and-samaria/2023/08/04/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 08:19:03 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=650500 The Sovereignty Movement urged Netanyahu to refrain from using Judea and Samaria as a bargaining chip in normalization talks.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/temple-mount-har-habayit/ben-gvir-ascends-temple-mount-on-9-bav-to-show-whos-in-charge/2023/07/27/ Thu, 27 Jul 2023 07:08:47 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=649262 “It is not a crime to pray, bow, or bring religious texts to our sacred site.”]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/jerusalem/state-archives-reveal-ehud-barak-agreed-to-give-up-part-of-temple-mount-old-city-of-jerusalem/2023/06/19/ Mon, 19 Jun 2023 15:48:57 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=643448 Clinton refused to let the Hebron or Kever Rachel remain in Israel's hands.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/sovereignty/fifth-sovereignty-convention-draws-1000-proclaiming-jordan-valley-sovereignty-only-a-matter-of-time/2023/06/09/ Fri, 09 Jun 2023 08:52:03 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=642162 Katsover and Matar pointed to the window of opportunity when sovereignty in the Jordan Valley enjoys support from the coalition and opposition MKs.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/jerusalem/likud-mk-amit-halevi-proposes-plan-to-divide-jerusalems-temple-mount/2023/06/07/ Wed, 07 Jun 2023 14:26:03 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=641820 "No one needs to examine the stones to know that it is ours ... King David bought the land from the Jebusites."]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/settlements-israel/homesh-yeshiva-settles-in-permanent-structure-overnight/2023/05/29/ Mon, 29 May 2023 05:48:28 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=640395 Ganim, Kadim, and Sa-Nur were three other Jewish settlements the Sharon regime uprooted in 2005. Yossi Dagan resided in Sa-Nur at the time.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/sovereignty/succumbing-to-foreign-pressure-netanyahu-suspends-taxing-anti-israel-ngos/2023/05/28/ Sun, 28 May 2023 05:33:18 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=640250 Netanyahu suspended a similar bill in 2016, under pressure from the Obama administration and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/settlements-israel/smotrich-reverses-2005-disengagement-in-northern-samaria/2023/05/21/ Sun, 21 May 2023 05:53:41 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=639383 "Thanks to the Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant for his cooperation in regulating the yeshiva.”]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/sovereignty/high-tensions-mark-preparations-for-jerusalem-day-flags-parade/2023/05/18/ Thu, 18 May 2023 05:02:45 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=639071 So far, the security apparatus has not detected concrete plans to fire missiles from the Gaza Strip.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/sovereignty/ateret-cohanim-promoting-new-neighborhood-on-pre-1948-jewish-land-in-eastern-jerusalem/2023/05/02/ Tue, 02 May 2023 08:49:03 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=636406 The lands of the Kidmat Zion neighborhood were purchased on September 16, 1925, by Haredi Jews.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/the-courts/following-stormy-debate-high-court-again-postpones-its-khan-al-ahmar-ruling/2023/05/01/ Mon, 01 May 2023 10:46:57 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=636253 This case has been schlepping along for 14 years.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/left-vs-right/lapid-condemns-as-racist-bill-saying-zionist-values-should-guide-legislation/2023/04/27/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 10:35:14 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=635773 Lapid’s response was a jarring mix of hate and disinformation, most likely because he never graduated high school.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/temple-mount-har-habayit/jews-arrested-on-temple-mount-for-unfurling-israeli-flag-prostrating-saying-shema-israel/2023/04/27/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 09:05:21 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=635757 “I call on the Israeli police to not interfere by provoking ascenders to the Temple Mount."]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/judea-samaria-israel/arab-media-slam-provocative-dances-by-ben-gvir-in-hebron/2023/04/26/ Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:22:48 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=635694 One of the Arab news outlets claimed that Ben-Gvir "broke into" the site and danced with "colonial Israeli settlers." ]]>