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1. This ain’t New Zealand: Amid a rise in COVID-19 cases, and a downturn in public compliance with the pandemic rules, Israel Hayom leads with a “special report” that is obvious to all Israelis who have recently ventured outdoors, namely that many aren’t abiding by the new guidelines. “The virus…

Twelve cars were vandalized and pro-Israel graffiti spray-painted on the walls of homes in the Palestinian village of As-Sawiya in the northern West Bank, near the settlement of Ariel. LISTEN: Annexation vexation comes between Bibi and the settlersHaaretz Security camera footage from the scene showed unidentified perpetrators puncturing car tires.…

Ira Rappaport makes a tear in the cloth of his shirt, the age-old Jewish sign of grief. US President Donald Trump’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan for Middle East peace has filled him with that emotion, he says. “Things are far worse than we thought,” Rappaport laments. “I live in Shiloh,…

As the Israeli government mulls annexing parts of Judea and Samaria, some Jews fear being forgotten and more isolated than ever, engulfed by a new Palestinian state. "That would be a nightmare," said Efrat Dahan, who lives in Otniel, a Jewish settlement that lies beyond larger swathes of land likewise…

A top settler leader said Wednesday that US President Donald Trump and his senior adviser Jared Kushner have shown through their peace proposal that “they are not friends of the State of Israel.” David Elhayani, who chairs the Yesha umbrella council of settlement mayors, made the remark in an interview…

1. Ixnay on the annexation? As Israel closes in on its July 1 annexation target date, the White House appears to be getting cold feet on welcoming the idea, maybe because it has quite a few other issues on its plate at the moment. A well-placed source tells The Times…

The plot of land near the West Bank settlement of Beit El reveals nothing of the drama surrounding it. On one side, Palestinians who claim that the land was fraudulently sold, and on the other, a company headed by elite members of the settlement movement. In the middle is a…

The weeks after Donald Trump’s election were a period of ecstasy in Judea and Samaria. Along the roads leading to the settlements thousands of posters were plastered with the slogan “Sovereignty Now!” Yesha Council members were spotted in the corridors of the Trump Plaza in New York and among the…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told settler leaders in a meeting Tuesday that should annexation of West Bank lands be brought before the government or Knesset for approval, it would be promoted independently of the plan proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, according to sources familiar with the content of the…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told recalcitrant settler leaders Tuesday they should get behind the “historic opportunity” to annex parts of the West Bank under the Trump administration’s peace plan. Netanyahu also said he is committed to negotiating with the Palestinians on the basis of the US proposal, his office said.…