Like so many fellow “settlers,” I didn’t move to a Jewish town in Judea and Samaria (the biblical name for the region commonly called the West Bank) for ideological reasons.
RUNNERS PARTICIPATE in the International Bible Marathon, in Samaria, in 2019. Judea and Samaria is the historic heartland of the Jewish people’s ancestral homeland, and Jews have lived there continuously for millennia, the writer asserts. (photo credit: HILLEL MAEIR/FLASH90)ByALIZA PILICHOWSKI