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National Union Chairman MK Yaakov Katz (Ketzaleh) said Sunday that the Shin Bet, the police, President Shimon Peres, former minister Aryeh Deri "and other radical left wingers" must apologize for blaming the arson at a northern mosque on Jewish "Price Tag" operations. MK Katz referred to a television interview with a resident of Tuba Zangariya aired Saturday night as confirming that the arson was committed by local residents, not Jews. "As I said insistently all along," he said, "all 20 arson attacks in the last three years were carried out by Arabs whose sole purpose is to create strife and...

Benny Katzover, Chairman of the Samaria Residents Committee, welcomed on Tuesday the appointment of Hagai Mordechai to the position of commander of the IDF’s Judea and Samaria Division. Mordechai is replacing Brigadier General Nitzan Alon, who held the position for over two years and whose views more often than not clashed with the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria. In an interview with Arutz Sheva, Katzover expressed hope that Mordechai’s appointment will mark the beginning of new and better relations between the IDF and Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria. “Unfortunately Nitzan Alon broke all records, and the peak was...