Tag: Jordan Valley

Egypt's absence is a message to Ramallah as to how much they actually care if Israel applies Israeli law over Jewish communities.

The message seems to be that while Abu Dhabi disagrees with Jerusalem on Israeli sovereignty, it won't be a roadblock to building relations with Israel.

Hundreds of Israeli and Jewish heritage and archaeology sites in Judea and Samaria would be removed from Israeli control and transferred to the PA.

Envoy says after spending more than three years traveling to Arab capitals, he “came to learn that we agree on far more than we disagree on.”

The US is talking to the PA via a group of businessmen from the PA.

On Thursday night, a commuter was attacked with a cinder block while standing in a traffic jam due to roadwork on Route 60.

Deliberate ambiguity has created resistance among those who should otherwise be supporting the application of Israeli law in Judea and Samaria. Name-calling hasn't helped either.

Settler leaders ramp up objections to Trump peace plan as Yamina leader Naftali Bennett warns of 'existential disaster' of a Palestinian state.

Retired General Amidror is part of a massive propaganda effort against the imposition of sovereignty, an effort involving much of the mainstream media as well as a group of retired IDF officers.

But according to Netanyahu, July 1 is not a deadline – July 1 is the day before which Israel will certainly not apply sovereignty and after which it might.

The entire ICC document, without exception, appears to be an argument in defense of the position of the Palestinian Authority.

The current prime minister outlines Israel’s five biggest challenges: rebuilding the economy; preparing for a second wave of the coronavirus; security and defense; the threat of the International Criminal Court; and applying Israeli law to the Jordan Valley and Judea and Samaria.

The authors recommend preparing for a new wave of "popular" violence stirred up by the Palestinian Authority in an attempt to prevent progress in reaching peace between Arabs and Jews in Judea and Samaria.

Firefighting planes operated in ten different locations, with 11 planes focusing on a fire set by Arabs near a military base in the Jordan Valley.

Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg says his country rejects “prejudice” against the Jewish state, and calls for dialogue with Israel’s new government.

The Bennett-Liberman alliance will bombard the Likud with rightwing bills that will embarrass Netanyahu and set him up for failure in the settlements come next election.

A second Jordanian smuggler managed to get back to Jordan.

Dermer is also campaigning hard for speeding up the annexation process because he is aware of the disagreements within the Trump administration over annexation.

"If Israel really annexed the West Bank in July, it would lead to a massive conflict with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan."

The senators originally threatened to destroy bipartisan support for Israel.

Erasing this relic of Jewish history from the landscape is extremely important to the PA, whose official line is that there never was a Jewish presence in the area prior to the Zionist Congress of 1897.

The epicenter was northeast of Beit Shean.

With Netanyahu's de facto recognition of a Palestinian State for the next four years, expect a Joe Biden White House to take this concept, adjust and amend it as they see fit, and recognize a Palestinian State.

It's a plan. It could even be a good plan if instead of Arabs, Israel's neighbors were, say, Serbs, or Irish.

Last Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the annexation is "ultimately Israel's decision to make."

US Secy Mike Pompeo: "That's an Israeli decision and we will work closely with them to share our views of this in a private setting."

As soon as the 61-MKs' recommendation is sent to the president, there will be a stampede of all the many parties, interest groups and NGOs to the High Court of Justice.

Date plantations in the Arava region and Jordan Valley were at risk due to a shortage in labor, but Israeli drones came to the rescue and are efficiently pollinating them from the air.

It's a nasty bit of anti-democratic legislation which presumes the PM to be guilty until proven innocent, inflicting on them the most severe political outcome of the case against them even before the court had held its first session.

Over the next 21 days, Knesset members will try to form a majority that will recommend to the president an agreed candidate for prime minister.