Efrat settlement

Israel 'will return to the whole of Gaza,' should 'erase' Oslo Accords, Smotrich says

“Gush Katif is small,” Smotrich told Pulse of Israel podcast host Avi Abelow. “We will return to the whole of Gaza in a big way.”

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, July 1, 2026.
View of the Jewish settlement of Efrat, Gush Etzion, in the West Bank, July 31, 2025.

Jewish rioter lightly wounded in ramming by Palestinian at Efrat Junction

US passport, illustrative

US will offer passport services in West Bank for first time

IDF soldiers operating at the scene of the terror attack in Binyamin, August 21, 2025.

Masked men infiltrate West Bank settlement: 'Two years after Oct. 7 and security still fails' - KAN


Road needed to build 2,500 new settler homes in Efrat

Peace Now has warned that the construction project “would have a devastating impact on the two-state solution.”

Efrat settlement, West Bank

CBS: 53% Drop in settler housing starts

It was the sharpest drop in housing starts for any region. Nationwide, the decline was 8.1%.

Palestinian laborers work at a construction site in a settlement near Jerusalem

Chief Rabbinate for whom?

We must continue to work to restore Rav Kook’s universalist vision and path. Judaism – and all Jews – deserve no less.

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin

IDF to lift seizure order on yeshiva in Yitzhar settlement

Military set to relinquish year-long seizure of Od Yosef Chai yeshiva in the West Bank.

Border Police officers try to prevent Jewish settlers from interrupting Palestinian traffic after a stabbing attack, near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Yitzhar [File]

Rabbi Riskin – until 120

Age is a number, no more and no less.

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin

Liberman and Bennett rally to Riskin’s support, call on chief rabbinate to back down

The Council of the Chief Rabbinate decides to summon Riskin for a hearing before deciding whether or not to grant a five year extension to his tenure as municipal chief rabbi of Efrat.

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin at Midreshet Lindenbaum.

White House: Settlement building isolates Israel in world, undermines chance for 2-state solution

“We have deep concerns about these highly contentious settlement construction announcements."

Homes in the Beit El settlement, West Bank

The man who quietly built Gush Etzion

Moshe Moshkowitz recalls the journey he took to contributing to the creation of 10 communities across the country.

Moshe Moshkowitz (left) in Kibbutz Masuot Yitzhak during Purim this year.