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At midnight, the state is expected to submit its answer regarding the proposed evacuation of the Homesh community in Judea, which has become one of the sticking points threatening the future of the current Bennett-Lapid coalition. Channel 12 News received a draft of the government's reply to the Court on behalf of Defense Minister Benny Gantz, stating that the community will be evacuated - but not in the immediate future. According to the report, Gantz will be provided flexibility as far as the timing of the demolition, regardless of the political situation and cracks in the coalition. On Tuesday, Prime...

Arabs hung a Nazi flag near the Chumash settlement in Samaria Srugim News 02.11.21 The students of the Chumash Yeshiva were shocked to discover a Nazi flag on the road leading between Chomesh and Shavei Shomron. "Since Operation Guardian of Walls, we've been experiencing a lot of harassment here and it seems to be a deliberate trend. The students of Yeshivat Chomesh, who travel on the "Chomesh - Shavei Shomron" axis every day, discovered this morning that during the night a Nazi flag with swastikas was hung near the town of Chomesh. Two swastikas appeared on one side of the...

MK Danny Danon (Likud) spoke to Arutz Sheva while attending a rally at Homesh this week at the head of a delegation from the World Likud. "Today, we are thousands of people from the Likud movement from all over the world, in Homesh," Danon told Arutz Sheva. We are here "to tell the Prime Minister to get back to Homesh, to let Jews live here in Homesh, to erase the disgraceful decision that pulled Jews out from Homesh," he explained. "I am also calling on the Prime Minister to take a brave decision to remove Defense Minister Ehud Barak from...

Objective articles appeared in two major newspapers this week on Homesh, the Jewish community in Samaria destroyed in 2005, and Joseph’s Tomb near Shechem. The rare coverage without the usual anti-Israeli bias is one among several signs that a four-decade long media attack in Israel is subsiding, albeit slowly.

Tel Aviv - Radical Jewish settlers overnight vowed to respond to US President Barack Obama's stance against Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian areas, by rebuilding one in the northern West Bank, evacuated in 2005. Homesh was one of four West Bank settlements uprooted by former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon as part of his unilateral pullout from the Gaza Strip and a small area in the northern West Bank. Settler leaders published a message to Obama, slamming him for his pressure against Israel on the issue of settlement construction. "Mr. President, your policy that aims to destroy the Jewish communities...

Talks on evacuees’ compensation to begin next week NRG Maariv has learnt that an attorney of 80 families from Samaria settlements slated for evacuation is to meet with Justice Ministry officials. Uri Yablonka Settlement in Judea and Samaria (Archive photo). The negotiations over the amount of compensation evacuated settlers would be entitled to under the framework of the disengagement plan are to begin next week. NRG Maariv has learnt that a representative of 80 families, which make up the core of four Samaria settlements slated for evacuation – Ganim, Kadim, Sanur and Homesh, will meet with Justice Ministry officials. In...