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(From L to R) Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan, Chief Rabbi of Safed Shmuel Eliyahu and former Samaria Regional Council chairman Gershon Mesika. (Yossi Zeliger, Yonatan Sindel and Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 18, 2018, 12:40 pm
Undermining elections, rabbi picks next leader of north West Bank settlements
Safed chief rabbi, chosen by Samaria Regional Council chairman Dagan and predecessor Mesika as an arbitrator, gives nod to incumbent Yossi Dagan
By Jacob Magid
Samaria Regional Council chairman Gershon Mesika arrives at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 26, 2012. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 27, 2018, 4:08 pm
After quitting post over link to corruption probe, settler leader wants back in
In announcing his candidacy for Samaria Regional Council chairman, Gershon Mesika comes out swinging at the incumbent who replaced him 3 years ago after he became a state’s witness
By Jacob Magid
Palestinian protesters throw stones at Israeli security forces at the Hawara checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, October 11, 2015. (Flash90)
January 15, 2016, 10:08 am
Why the West Bank refugee camps refuse to join the Third Intifada
In Jenin and Balata, they’re waiting for a one-state solution… or for Islamic State
By Avi Issacharoff
Mourners attend the funeral of fourteen Palestinians killed during recent attacks on Israelis, a day after Israel handed over the bodies of twenty-three Palestinians to their families, on January 2, 2016, in the West Bank city of Hebron. (AFP/ HAZEM BADER)
January 4, 2016, 5:59 am
Nablus terrorist gets Nasrallah-themed funeral
Ashraqat Taha Qatanany, killed while carrying out November stabbing attack, buried with Hezbollah regalia
By Lee Gancman
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addresses supporters in Beirut, Lebanon, on November 3, 2014. (AFP/STR)
November 29, 2015, 2:00 am
Nasrallah consoles family of slain Palestinian teen stabber
Hezbollah leader says Ashraqet Qatnani ‘shone for him’ like his own son who was killed in battle with Israeli soldiers
By TOI staff
An image posted to the official Twitter account of of Fatah on November 22, 2015, depicting the former Samaria Regional Council head Gershon Mesika as a "child killer." (Twitter)
November 22, 2015, 6:39 pm
Hamas, Fatah threaten ex-settler leader who thwarted terror attack
Image posted to Twitter depicts ‘child killer’ Gershon Mesika with a target and blood splatter over his face
By Tamar Pileggi
Head of the Samaria Regional Council Gershon Mesika on February 7, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)
May 21, 2015, 6:34 pm
West Bank council head turns witness in bribery case
Gershon Mesika quits Samaria Regional Council after exposing alleged corruption attributed to ex-deputy minister Faina Kirshenbaum
By TOI staff
Illustrative photo of a cellphone tower (photo credit: CC BY Joe Ravi/Wikipedia)
September 17, 2013, 4:49 pm
Palestinians demand removal of 100 cellular towers in West Bank
Communications minister seeks to designate antennas as crucial to security, which would prevent their dismantlement
By Gavriel Fiske
Dani Dayan (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 7, 2013, 4:57 am
Settler leaders look to influence US policy
Sensitive to Republican mistrust of Obama’s foreign policy, Dani Dayan tells House leaders that the peace process would harm US interests
By Ron Kampeas
Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon, head of the IDF Central Command, in Tel Aviv, May 13, 2013 (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
May 24, 2013, 7:36 pm
IDF spokesman backs up general denounced by settlers
Yoav Mordechai praises Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon, under fire from the right for ‘lenient’ approach to Palestinian protests
By Adiv Sterman
May 3, 2013, 10:16 am
Dozens of settlers protest dismantling of outpost
Site was built in memory of Evyatar Borowsky, 31, who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian nearby on Tuesday
By Yoel Goldman and Stuart Winer
May 2, 2013, 11:54 am
Settlers plan outpost in memory of terror victim
Head of regional council sets up office on hilltop overlooking junction where Evyatar Borowsky was stabbed to death
By Stuart Winer
April 30, 2013, 8:37 am
Palestinian stabs Israeli to death in West Bank
Attacker shot after opening fire on police at Tapuah junction; government must ‘get with the program,’ settler leader says
By TOI staff
File: Men praying in Joseph's Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus in 2011 (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
January 24, 2013, 3:07 pm
Joseph’s tomb in Nablus vandalized, worshipers say
Some 2,500 pilgrims discover urine stains, attempted arson during monthly visit to purported biblical site
By Asher Zeiger
A panoramic view of the Etzion Bloc region of the West Bank (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
July 16, 2012, 12:57 pm
The newly confident Israeli proponents of a one-state solution
Demanding a Greater Israel used to be exclusively for the far right. Now even coalition chairman Ze’ev Elkin is insisting Israel annex the West Bank, ‘regardless of the world’s opposition’
By Raphael Ahren
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