📸🇮🇱 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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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.
Today, we held a field tour in Judea & Samaria with Likud MK @ArielKallner. The tour focused on the PA’s main project in the last decade: land grabs in Area C. We discussed challenges in #BattleforAreaC, particularly the #EU🇪🇺 backing of the PA’s illegal efforts.
After the tour, MK Kallner said: “The mass take-over of Area C is planned, and purposely carried out by people who want this land for themselves. >
> As someone who has pledged to stand up for the Land of #Israel, I cannot accept this reality, and the State should not accept it either. The Civil Administration is incapable of doing its job. We have to act with full strength – this is a national mission.” >