📸🇮🇱 We received around 80 entries in our recent photo contest. Each photo showcased a part of beautiful #Israel. From now on, we’re going to share one photo every day. 👇🏻👇🏻
Here’s Photo no. 1, submitted by Howard Mischel. This image of the Shomron was taken from the "Gog Yisrael" lookout in Harsha, with the Mediterranean Coast in the distance. 📸
📸🇮🇱 Photo #2: Gedaliah Blum took this photo of the sunset from Rotem in the Jordan Valley
📸🇮🇱 Photo #3: Tel Aviv Port
Credit: Nicky Harris
📸🇮🇱 Photo #4 in our photo contest was taken by @koningsveld. A stunning snap from Eli in the Binyamin Region.
📸🇮🇱 Photo #5 is by @myaliyahstory, capturing the simple beauty of Eli
📸🇮🇱 Photo #6 is a beauty, taken by Julia Weiss. The Hula Valley in Israel’s north at dawn.
📸🇮🇱 Photo #7 is of the Jerusalem city walls as seen from the Kidron Valley.
Credit: Avner Amichai
📸🇮🇱 Photo #8 is the view from Joshua’s altar, looking out towards Mount Kabir & the Tirzah valley. Photo was taken by the talented @AryelTsion.
📸🇮🇱 Photo #9, taken by Theun Woudwijk, is of the remnants of Sebastia — the ancient capital of the ten tribes, originally built by King Omri
📸🇮🇱 Photo #10: Gateway to the Desert (from Pnei Kedem looking eastward)
Credit: Yehonatan Sela
📸🇮🇱 Photo #11: Michael Sunshine captured this view of the Hula Valley on a misty morning, looking across towards the Golan Heights
📸🇮🇱 Photo #12 is another beauty by @AryelTsion — of a shepherd with his sheep in the Judean Mountains.
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¹Recently, we took @IsraelHayomEng journalist Yifat Erlich round Judea & Samaria for an in-depth field tour to learn about a phenomenon we’ve been monitoring for ages. How does an Israeli-registered company serve as an arm of the PA’s illegal takeover of Area C? >>
²There are over 81,000 illegal Palestinian structures in Area C, but how do the vast majority of them have electricity? Some are hooked-up to the electricity grid in a pirate fashion, while many others are connected by the Jerusalem District Electric Company (JDECO).
³JDECO is a registered Israeli company that buys electricity from the Israel Electric Corporation & supplies electricity to illegal structures. Did you catch that? An official, recognized company acting openly against the law.
¹Last weekend, High Court of Justice handed down a decision, allowing for hundreds of Palestinian invaders to be evicted from Training Ground 918, an IDF training zone in South Hebron Hills region.
THREAD >>
²This complicated case has been discussed in the courtrooms for no less than 20 years – a discussion that’s been based mainly on Fake News peddled by radical left-wing NGOs & the Palestinian Authority.
³After repeatedly preventing any enforcement action against the invaders (who in meantime built hundreds more illegal structures), HCJ examined aerial photos/maps, which prove beyond doubt: never any permanent Arab settlement in area before it was declared an IDF training zone.
Last week, the Ra'am party presented draft legislation that would approve the connection of tens of thousands of illegally built homes in the Arab sector to the electricity grid. >
According to @GLZRadio, the gov’t is seeking to make a deal with the Joint List: in return for the coalition passing the “Electricity Law” in the Knesset’s next session, the Joint List will either vote in favor of the state budget, or absent itself from the vote. >
This is not a new law; it was first passed in the 90s as a ‘temporary order’ for two years. It was extended on an annual basis, creating de facto approval of thousands of illegal construction projects in the Arab sector; but in 2007, the law was finally allowed to lapse. >
¹According to our friends @NGOmonitor, the UK government has given almost $13 million to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), an NGO that works tirelessly to undermine Israel’s legal rights in Judea & Samaria.
²As part of #BattleforAreaC, PA is coordinating a legal campaign against Israel. PA creates facts on the grounds, builds without permits on lands under Israeli jurisdiction, then drags out & exploits the Israeli legal process to prevent demolition orders from being executed.
³But in order to wage a legal battle, you need $$$. That’s where NGOs such as @NRC_Norway
come in. Under guise of “humanitarian aid”, these NGOs provide legal counselling & assistance to Palestinians squatting on Israeli state lands, in defiance of int'l law & Oslo Accords.
Why does Abu Talul, a Bedouin town in the Negev recognized by the Israeli gov't in 2006, still look like an illegal squatters’ camp?
▶️🔊 Find out in this short video.
In a comprehensive report in 2017, Regavim outlined a Plan for the Regulation of Bedouin settlement in the Negev. Read it here: bit.ly/35YWI8J #ProtectingTheNegev
Solutions include: >
A) To utilize land resources better in already-existing communities. Ridiculous that sometimes ⅔ of legal settlements are empty because of land ownership claims! Disputes must be solved by reducing compensation packages & initiating ownership clarification procedures in court.
Illegal Palestinian structures, built in Area C without permits:
2009: 29,784
2018: 58,435
2020: 65,572
According to official data, every year Civil Administration tears down between 200-250 structures. So even if you hear of the odd demolition, it’s like a drop in the sea. PA is carrying out mass, rapid, illegal construction, changing the map by creating facts on the ground.
Looking at the number of illegal structures doesn’t tell the full story, however. While Israeli-Jewish construction is often ‘upwards’, the Palestinian-Arab construction tends to be ‘sideways’ – in other words, spreading over huge swathes of land.