Following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with US administration officials and members of the Board of Peace Monday, an Israeli political source said that “it was agreed that there would be no withdrawal without Hamas disarming.” In other words, the first condition for any future move in Gaza will be the disarmament of Hamas, effectively […]

Following the refusal of many fighters of the Golani fifty-first battalion to act against settlers in Qusra, the battalion will be replaced on Sunday by the Sayeret Haruv special force, which is being deployed to the area, community activist Elisha Yared reported Saturday night. The “settler violence” campaign has found its latest cause célèbre last […]

Defense Minister Israel Katz has instructed the IDF to prepare a plan transferring civilian law-enforcement responsibilities involving Israeli communities and the Israeli population in Judea and Samaria to the Israel Police—a significant further step in separating ordinary Israeli civilian life in the region from the military framework. Under the proposed arrangement, Israel Police would establish […]

Twenty-one years after the Disengagement from the communities of northern Samaria and following a Cabinet decision led by Minister Bezalel Smotrich to legalize dozens of communities, families from the Ganim group arrived on the ground Thursday morning and reestablished the community. Dozens of caravans have been placed at the site to house the families, as […]