A new community was inaugurated Sunday in Samaria as part of an announced plan to almost double the region’s Jewish population to one million residents.
The first ten families were welcomed in a ceremony to their new trailer homes in Rechavam, located at a strategic point along the Trans-Samaria Highway, amid a chain of communities viewed by local leaders as strengthening security along the vital route.
“We are privileged to make the dream of returning to Zion come true… amidst all the difficulties of the war,” said Yossi Dagan, head of the Samaria Council. “We are working according to an organized plan – a million in Samaria,” he added citing efforts to identify land, establish communities and farms, and steadily expand Jewish presence in the area.
The new community is named for the late Rechavam Ze’evi, an IDF general who founded the Moledet party and was the tourism minister in October 2001 when he was assassinated by Palestinian terrorists.
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New settlement inaugurated in Samaria, by Batya Jerenberg/World Israel News, January 12, 2026