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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 424

Binyamin Regional Council

Illustrative: An Etihad Airways plane lands at at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on October 20, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
September 20, 2023, 8:59 pm
Airport Authority: GPS jamming is forcing planes to land using alternative routes
After noise complaints from West Bank settlements, authority cryptically says disruptions likely caused by forces outside the country; Russia was blamed for interference in past
By Michael Horovitz
Buildings under construction in Mishor Adumim, an Israeli industrial zone adjacent to the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, east of Jerusalem, on June 16, 2020. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
February 14, 2021, 9:27 pm
PM agrees to review controversial West Bank waste-to-energy plant plan
Environment minister orders work on Good Samaritan facility in Mishor Adumim frozen, accuses Finance Ministry officials of issuing tender for project behind her back
By Sue Surkes
Firefighters extinguish a blaze in a car during an IDF exercise simulating a rocket attack in the Kfar Adumim settlement in the central West Bank on December 11, 2019. (Judah Ari Gross/The Times of Israel)
December 15, 2019, 7:51 pm
West Bank settlements simulate string of disasters to train for the real thing
In large-scale drill, Binyamin region practices response to a deadly Gaza rocket attack, back-to-back shootings, and a contaminated water supply — all in the span of a few hours
By Judah Ari Gross
Binyamin Regional Council chairman Yisrael Gantz (L) gives an award to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at an inaugural ceremony of a new interchange at the central West Bank settlement of Adam on December 11, 2018. (Yossi Zamir)
May 20, 2019, 11:44 pm
How settler leaders worked to reelect Netanyahu and what they want in return
While they’ve sparred with him in the past, prominent West Bank mayors put aside differences to campaign door-to-door for PM’s Likud party days after his on-air annexation pledge
By Jacob Magid
Route 4370, with a wall dividing Israeli and Palestinian traffic, January 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 10, 2019, 3:47 pm
In first, Israel opens road with wall dividing Israeli and Palestinian traffic
Israel says new route eases traffic, strengthens connection between Jerusalem and settlements; Palestinians say it ’embodies barefaced discrimination’
By ToI Staff
Border Police clear several hundred settler youths who had crammed into a pair of illegally placed mobile homes on the Amona outpost on January 3, 2018. (Binyamin Regional Council)
January 4, 2019, 10:45 am
Situation normal, all fudged up: 10 things to know for January 4
It’s election season, which means the spin cycle is on overdrive, and nobody is safe from the whirring blades of politicking
By Joshua Davidovich
Illustrative: Members of the Israeli security forces remove a caravan that settlers had brought to the former outpost of Amona on January 3, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
January 4, 2019, 1:52 am
Amid criticism, PM claims he told aide to call off Amona evacuation — report
Military secretary Avi Blot blamed after reportedly failing to relay order to halt in time, but some don’t buy story; defense official admits army gave settlers heads-up
By Jacob Magid
Border Police clear several hundred settler youths who had crammed into a pair of illegally placed mobile homes on the Amona outpost on January 3, 2018. (Binyamin Regional Council)
January 3, 2019, 8:33 am
23 police officers, 4 settlers hurt in violent clashes at Amona outpost
Police clear 2 mobile homes installed illegally on West Bank hilltop; 7 demonstrators arrested; hundreds of protesters converge on site; far-right activists say at least 10 hurt
By Jacob Magid
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (c) meets with settler leaders in his office on February 25, 2018. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/File)
December 30, 2018, 2:00 pm
The PM is again warning settlers of a ‘real threat.’ This time it may not work
Like in 2015, Netanyahu insists that only Likud can safeguard their homes — even if it won’t build more — but a new generation of farther-right West Bank leaders isn’t so sure
By Jacob Magid
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets settler leaders in Jerusalem, December 26, 2018 (Haim Zach/GPO)
December 26, 2018, 12:39 pm
The left is recruiting the media to oust my government, PM tells settler leaders
Netanyahu warns West Bank council heads that if the left is victorious, all his hard work getting Washington to agree to recent settlement expansion will be ‘immediately reversed’
By Jacob Magid
Yossi Dagan, the head of Shomron Regional Council, addresses the 14th annual B'Sheva Jerusalem Conference on February 12, 2017. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 26, 2018, 11:20 am
3 settler leaders boycott PM meeting, saying ‘we’re being given the runaround’
Samaria, Binyamin, Kiryat Arba council heads ‘see no value’ in confab while their demands for substantial settlement building, return of West Bank roadblocks are ignored
By Jacob Magid
Settlers install a pair of caravans on the hilltop where the illegal Amona outpost once stood on December 13, 2018. (Bezalel Smotrich/Twitter)
December 14, 2018, 5:32 pm
Amid Palestinian terror, settlers set up 2 caravans at razed Amona outpost
Right-wing activists say they purchased 40 dunams of land on hilltop in central West Bank from Palestinian landowners; Defense Ministry says move wasn’t coordinated as required
By Jacob Magid
Settler leaders pose for a photo outside the Prime Minister's Office following their meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu on June 7, 2017. From R-L, Gush Etzion Regional Council Chairman Shlomo Ne'eman, Ma'ale Adumim Mayor Benny Kasriel, Beit El Local Council Chairman Shai Alon, Yesha Council Chairman Avi Roeh, Karnei Shomron mayor Yigal Lahav, Yesha Council Director General Shiloh Adler, Elkana Mayor Asaf Mintzer, and Kiryat Arba Local Council Head Malachi Levinger. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)
October 31, 2018, 9:56 pm
New leadership in West Bank could deepen cracks in settler unity
Municipal election results embolden camp of council chairs who prefer working outside of Yesha settlement umbrella body to advance policies on behalf of Israelis over Green Line
By Jacob Magid
View of the Givat Asaf outpost, near the Beit El settlement in the West Bank. (Miriam Alster/ Flash 90)
July 9, 2018, 10:25 pm
State funds being used to build up illegal outposts, auditor charges
Settlement council, ministries and KKL-JNF are bankrolling construction in wildcat communities, even after Civil Administration issues stop-work orders, according to comptroller
By Jacob Magid
The first caravan is placed on the grounds of the new Amichai settlement for evacuees of the illegal Amona outpost on February 21, 2018. (Courtesy: Amona evacuees)
February 21, 2018, 1:29 pm
First trailers placed at new settlement for Amona evacuees
36 mobile homes brought to Amichai, allowing former residents of razed illegal outpost to move in ahead of Passover
By Jacob Magid
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