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Judea and Samaria

Lazar Berman
Op-ed
Lazar Berman
Settler violence harms Israel’s interests. But for PM, halting it could hurt him politically
This handout photo shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing an event celebrating the legalization of West Bank settlement outposts, on August 26, 2025. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
Netanyahu cast doubt on accounts of Jewish attacks on diplomats, priests and journalists over the weekend. With the election a week away, coalition calculations are taking precedence
Yisrael Beytenu party chairman MK Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 15, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 23, 2026, 2:46 pm
Liberman proposes Jordan control parts of West Bank, drawing right-wing rebuke
Yisrael Beytenu party chief says PA cannot remain in control of territory and ‘you can’t have a vacuum’; Netanyahu tells him to ‘retract your statement immediately’
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
IDF soldiers operate in the West Bank, in a photo cleared for publication on April 3, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 3, 2025, 4:31 pm
Troops kill Palestinian, injure 2 others who threw explosives at force in West Bank
Amid crackdown on military indiscipline, IDF said to call off raid near Bethlehem after soldiers in the area found to have vandalized Palestinian property
By Stav Levaton
Chairman of the West Bank sub-committee of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee MK Tzvi Succot gestures to Labor MK Gilad Kariv to leave a hearing on alleged unlawful activity of civil rights and pro-Palestinian activists in the West Bank, March 12, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
March 12, 2024, 4:18 pm
Tempers flare in controversial Knesset hearing on West Bank civil rights activists
Subcommittee chair MK Succot accuses pro-Palestinian activists of ‘severe violence,’ while Labor MK Kariv alleges hearing is a ‘smokescreen’ for settler violence
By Jeremy Sharon
IDF soldiers patrol the main road in Huwara town in the West Bank, on February 27, 2023. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)
February 27, 2023, 9:11 pm
Senior IDF commander reportedly attacked by Jews during West Bank rioting
Public broadcaster says head of Binyamin Brigade was violently assaulted as military forces attempted to prevent youths from throwing stones at Palestinian-owned vehicles
By Ash Obel
Hundreds of people attend the funeral ceremony of Staff Sgt. Ido Baruch killed in a shooting attack in the West Bank yesterday, at the military cemetery in Gedera, October 12, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 12, 2022, 6:16 pm
‘Be proud of Ido’: Soldier killed in West Bank shooting laid to rest
IDF commander says Ido Baruch, 21, who was killed in the northern West Bank, had ‘spirit of devotion, human love and optimism’
By Ash Obel
Illustrative: The northern West Bank settlement of Rehelim. (Samaria Regional Council)
September 7, 2022, 10:24 pm
Filmmakers trade jabs over so-called ‘settler film fund’
Israel’s top directors and actors come out strongly against West Bank-based film organization created by former culture minister Miri Regev
By Jessica Steinberg
(L) Idit Silman, heads a committee meeting at the Knesset on November 30, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) and Meretz MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi addresses a Knesset committee. (Danny Shem Tov/Knesset Spokesperson)
June 6, 2022, 2:31 pm
Rebel Yamina, Meretz MKs said to oppose West Bank law renewal, possibly dooming it
Justice minister, who has said coalition’s future is at stake, insists vote won’t be delayed, despite fact that Silman and Rinawie Zoabi’s votes are decisive in deadlocked Knesset
By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff
View of the Knesset in Jerusalem on August 13, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 5, 2022, 11:44 pm
With crucial settlement bill set for plenum, unclear coalition has votes to pass it
Government’s future and civil rights of settlers potentially in the balance, but support from Ra’am and rebel MK Silman in doubt
By ToI Staff
Chairman of the Samaria regional council, Yossi Dagan (second from left) pictured with local Palestinian figures at an Iftar meal, on April 5, 2022. (From the Facebook of Yossi Dagan/used under clause 27a of the copyright law)
April 7, 2022, 9:15 pm
Ramadan meal brings together unlikely group of Jewish settlers and Palestinians
Chairman of the Samaria Regional Council Yossi Dagan hosts local Palestinian leaders for Iftar break-fast in rare display of coexistence
By Michael Horovitz
Israeli troops take part in a surprise exercise simulating a kidnapping in the West Bank in September 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)
September 10, 2020, 8:22 pm
In surprise drill, IDF simulates kidnapping, outbreak of violence in West Bank
Units from across the military take part in 3-day exercise mimicking lead-up to 2014 Gaza war in army chief Aviv Kohavi’s fourth unannounced inspection
By Judah Ari Gross
Israeli soldiers guard at a bus stop near the settlement of Kokhav HaShahar, in the West Bank, on January 6, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 8, 2020, 9:05 pm
IDF launches surprise drill simulating West Bank kidnapping
In fourth unannounced exercise by military chief Kohavi, residents told to expect additional troop and vehicle movement in coming days
By Judah Ari Gross
A still from a video shows a Palestinian youth hurling rocks at IDF soldiers in Hebron at close range, August 29, 2020 (video screenshot)
August 31, 2020, 10:49 am
IDF rebukes troops seen not responding as they’re pelted with rocks in Hebron
Military decries soldiers’ inaction as ‘conduct unbecoming’ after video of the incident causes hubbub among politicians
By Judah Ari Gross
Israeli and Palestinian firetrucks in Jenin on March 19, 2019. (Credit: COGAT)
March 20, 2019, 3:53 pm
Israeli and Palestinian firefighters participate in joint exercise in Jenin
Rescuers douse flames in four locations, in drill overseen by Israeli and Palestinian Authority officials
By Adam Rasgon
Suspected antiquities burglars spotted by the Civil Administration's Archaeology Unit and Nature Authority this week near the Jordan Valley archaeological site of Tana a-Tahta. (COGAT Spokesperson's Office)
February 27, 2019, 6:19 pm
Antiquities thieves arrested at Herodian fortress and Iron Age site
As West Bank’s Civil Administration’s Archaeology Unit cracks down on ransacking of ancient sites, burglars jailed and fined, equipment confiscated
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (r) with settler leader Yossi Dagan at event commemorating 50 years of settlement in the West Bank, August 28, 2017. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)
August 28, 2017, 11:16 pm
Netanyahu vows he will never evacuate another settlement
At event celebrating 50 years of settlements in the northern West Bank, thousands cheer PM as he speaks of the area’s strategic importance
By Jacob Magid
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