Two Palestinians were arrested on suspicion of involvement in a fire that damaged dozens of homes and vehicles on Saturday in the Samaria community of Chavat Gilad, the Israel Police said on Monday. The fire destroyed 15 homes, 10 businesses and more than 30 structures, damaging infrastructure and forcing the evacuation of approximately 100 families. […]

The IDF declared much of the Gaza border region a closed military zone Sunday as thousands of Israelis prepared to march from Yad Mordechai toward the enclave in support of reestablishing Jewish communities evacuated in 2005. The demonstration, organized by the Nahala movement, was scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. at Yad Mordechai Junction, north […]

In 2009, then Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad unveiled a plan to unilaterally establish a Palestinian state by creating “facts on the ground,” despite the Oslo Accords. His program, Palestine: Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State, called for full sovereignty over the “West Bank” and Gaza within the 1967 lines, with Jerusalem as its […]

The Israeli Cabinet approved a 1.3-billion- shekel ($434 million) plan to establish and develop dozens of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Tuesday. “Together with [Settlements and National Missions] Minister Orit Strook, we formulated a decision that will enable the rapid establishment of communities through pioneer neighborhoods in the […]