Posts Tagged: Amona
Netanyahu Announces He Will Keep Promise to Build New Community in Judea, Samaria
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Thursday that he plans to keep his commitment to build the first new Judea and Samaria (West Bank) settlement in 25...
Renewed Questions About Future of Settlements After Amona Evacuation
JNS.org - Israel carried out the much-discussed evacuation of the Jewish outpost of Amona last week. The controversy raised renewed questions about the future of Israeli settlements,...
International Legal Expert: Widespread Global Criticism of Settlement ‘Regulation Law’ Passed by Knesset Is Unwarranted
The widespread global criticism of the settlement “Regulation Law” passed by the Israeli parliament earlier this week is unwarranted, an international legal expert told The Algemeiner on...
Israeli Cabinet Delays Vote on Annexing Ma’ale Adumim; Amona Deal Stalls
JNS.org -- The Israeli cabinet decided to delay a vote on annexing the Jerusalem suburb of Ma’ale Adumim, which lies beyond the 1967 lines, until Prime Minister...
Amona — A Strategic Defeat for Zionism
"To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to the written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all...
Israeli High Court Postpones Amona Outpost Eviction by 45 Days
JNS.org -- Israel’s High Court of Justice agreed Thursday to postpone the evacuation of Samaria's Amona outpost one last time, giving residents a grace period of...
Amona Residents Accept Compromise; ‘Rule of Law’ Prevails in Israeli Settlement Dispute
JNS.org -- Residents of the West Bank settlement of Amona agreed to a last-minute government proposal to shift the community to an adjacent plot of...
Facing Evacuation, Amona Settlers Plan Resistance Campaign
Facing a court-ordered evacuation, residents of the Jewish settlement outpost of Amona in the West Bank are digging in for a fight to the finish....
State Department Condemns Proposed Knesset Bill to Legalize Jewish Outposts in West Bank
JNS.org - The US State Department strongly condemned an Israeli Knesset bill that seeks to retroactively legalize Jewish outposts, saying Monday that it "breaks with longstanding...
Home Sweet Home: From Amona to Shiloh
Like Jarndyce v. Jarndyce in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, the legal saga of some fifty families in the Jewish outpost of Amona “drones on.” Founded...