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Lying on his hospital bed, Lt. Daniel Elbaz, a company commander in the IDF's Infantry Training School, recounted on Thursday the car attack on him and his men, which took place at the Senjil Junction, near Shilo, in the Binyamin region, north of Jerusalem. .... “At about 3:15, I identify a vehicle coming at me at high speed. Just before reaching me he executes a sharp turn, hitting me and two of my soldiers. I realize that this is a terror attack and identify the terrorist trying to get out of the car. I shoot and neutralize the event.” The...

Arab riots continue in the Shilo area after local Arabs attacked Jewish hikers resulting in one hiker stabbed and one Arab shot. The hikers were attacked between the Arab village of Kursa and Jewish community of Esh Kodesh in the Shomron (Samaria). The knifed hiker was reported to have in serious condition, while the Arab who was shot died of his wounds after evacuation by a Red Crescent amublance. Esh Kodesh residents said that a group of Jewish hikers who arrived this morning to camp in area adjacent to Shilo and Esh Kodesh were attacked by a group of Arabs...

Olmert hints at pullout of Shilo, Beit El, Ofra, Kedumim Amir Mizroch, THE JERUSALEM POST Jun. 22, 2006 Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Thursday hinted that the settlements of Shilo, Beit El, Ofra and Kedumim would be evacuated under his unilateral withdrawal plan, and said that many other settlements in the West Bank would be also be evacuated. "Shilo, Beit El, Ofra and Kedumim were always part of the historical Land of Israel, and they always emotionally will be," Olmert said in a conversation with Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel at the Petra Nobel Laureates Conference in Jordan. "We, Israelis, Jews,...

The BBC and Yesha Yisrael Medad 18 September 2002 Email this story Print this story The quarter of a million Jewish civilians who reside in communities throughout Judea, Samaria and Gaza, the Jewish people’s historic homeland, are natural targets for Arab terror. Fully 20% of all the Israeli fatalities since October 2000 have been those world calls “settlers”, while we are only 3% of the general population. I myself live in Shiloh, on a hilltop never occupied by Arabs. Three of my neighbors have been murdered, one a 5 month old infant. In the political and media parlance, my home...