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The Nazi Arab who spray-painted swastikas in Huwara was captured. Yashar Koach to 'Rabshatz' Yitzhar and the Samaria Brigade. Several hundred thousand more such terrorists remain, but a good start Oct 22, 2021

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (Likud) has decided not to extend the seizure order issued last year against the Od Yosef Chai yeshiva (Torah academy - ed.) building in Yitzhar, in the heart of Samaria, according to Channel 10. For the first time in over a year, police and IDF forces will vacate the premises and allow students to return. The yeshiva was initially seized by Border Policemen in April 2014, following clashes between an extreme element in the community and security forces. The cyclical clashes began after a house was destroyed by the IDF, sparking tire-slashings of two IDF cars....

An Arab terrorist armed with a knife stabbed an Israeli at the Tapuach junction in Shomron (Samaria) on Tuesday morning. The terrorist stabbed the victim, identified as Evyatar.Borovsky, in the upper body, wounding him critically. The terrorist then grabbed his gun and fired at the Border Police who were stationed in the area. Border Police officers fired back, wounding the perpetrator. Magen David Adom teams arrived at the scene and tried to revive the 31-year-old Israeli father of five from the Yitzhar, but pronounced him dead on the spot. Evyatar was an actor who appeared in various theater productions and...

Dozens of agitators emanating from the Palestinian Authority ruled zones threw rocks and bricks at residents of Yitzhar. The incident took place Tuesday afternoon. The spokesperson of the Yitzhar community council stated that security forces are pursuing the suspect...

About 200 Arabs from the village of Urif in the Binyamin region took advantage of the snow last weekend to penetrate into the perimeter of a Jewish outpost near Yitzhar. The outpost only held a small number of boys at the time. Video ..... "In accordance with instructions for all of Judea and Samaria's hot spots," he added, "security forces must only use riot dispersal gear against the rioters, who are not afraid to throw back the gas canisters that were fired at them, alongside with rocks."

Pinni Shendorfi, the Haredi soldier from Nahal who refused the orders of his commanders to evacuate Jewish residents from three residential buildings in Yitzhar last Thursday, was brought before a court Tuesday and was removed from his combat position. Shendorfi refused the orders, saying he will not take part in a "mission against Jews." Pinni's mother, Ronit, said her son was not worried about possible jail time but was more worried that he would be taken out of combat, where he very much wanted to remain. ....

To give up the 5,000-square-kilometre “West Bank” - roughly 50 kilometres wide and 100 kilometres in length - would be to put Israel in a totally indefensible position by giving up military advantages in four critical areas. Yitzhar is probably the most hated, headlined and demonized “settlement” in Samaria. Only passionately convinced people would visit this Jewish town. But anyone visiting it would also understand what would happen to Tel Aviv and Herzliya if, instead of Jews, the PLO-Hamas regime would be controlling Yitzhar. From Yitzhar, located high up in the hills near Nablus, the Biblical city of Shechem, you...

Security forces in the Samaria (Shomron) town of Yitzhar were recently involved in violent clashes with Palestinian Authority Arabs, a senior IDF commander said. In at least one case, the security team managed to prevent an attack. Despite that, the team has been punished for its allegedly heavy-handed response by having its responsibilities scaled back and its weapons confiscated. The commander described two of the incidents that led to the punishment. As background, he noted that there has been a rash of arson attacks in the area lately – most of them carried out by Palestinian Authority Arabs, but some...

The District Governor of the Shechem (Nablus) District in the Palestinian Authority called upon the international community Sunday to intervene quickly and provide the Palestinian Authority with protection from Jews. AlBakri warned that "The ongoing aggressiveness of the settlers will lead to violence in the entire region, the results of which cannot be predicted. The continued violence by settlers requires international intervention, he argued. He said that the Jews are interested in "widening" the cycle of violence in the summertime, in order to cause Arab farmers financial losses. "The escalation in attacks by settlers would not have occurred were it...

The community of Yitzhar in the Shomron was the target of Arab arsonists during the Sabbath. On Saturday afternoon at approximately 5:00 p.m. local time, Palestinian Authority Arabs started a fire in several locations west of the community. The local emergency squad and a team of firefighters who arrived on the scene were attacked with rocks that were thrown at them by approximately 200 Arab rioters. IDF soldiers and Border Police officers who arrived also were attacked and were prevented from dispersing the rioters for a long time. The Arab rioters filmed the riot and posted the video to YouTube....

The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court extended by five days on Tuesday the remand of Yitzhar resident Akiva Hacohen. Hacohen is one of several men who were given restraining orders by police last August and were forced to leave their homes. Since being deported he, his wife and their four children have been residing in an apartment in Jerusalem’s French Hill neighborhood. He is now being accused by police of espionage, because he warned Jews residing in communities in Judea and Samaria of impending demolitions of homes. Hacohen’s wife, Ayelet Hashachar Hacohen, criticized the police and the State of Israel on Tuesday...

Residents of Yitzhar in central Samaria say they prevented a possible terrorist attack when they used force to halt a truck that ignored numerous orders to halt, and careened around several checkpoints at high speed. Their account was disputed by the IDF, which claimed that the residents attacked an innocent driver who had lost his way. The incident occurred Saturday night, when a truck with Arabic writing on it drove through a checkpoint into Yitzhar. According to the soldiers, the truck driver had lost his way and passed the checkpoint unintentionally. He then drove on the access road to Yitzhar...

The town of Yitzhar in Samaria is on alert Wednesday as residents of the neighboring Arab village Asira el-Kabaliye mourn the death of a local terrorist who tried to murder a young Jewish boy. The terrorist was killed exactly three years ago today; his passing is expected to be marked by a large protest in his village. The terrorist had entered Yitzhar one week before his death and burnt down one family’s home, attempted to murder a second family, and attempted to stab to death Tuvia Shtetman, then nine years old. Young Tuvia managed to fight off his attacker, and...

As part of the many measures being taken lately against residents in the Samaria (Shomron) Jewish community of Yitzhar, the police and the military have adopted a new policy: arresting residents who come home after midnight. One of them is Elchanan Gruner, a resident of Yitzhar and a member of the Honenu legal aid association. “We came on Monday at 12:15am,” Gruner told Arutz Sheva’s Hebrew website on Wednesday. A Border Police jeep stood at the entrance to the community, stopped us and asked us for identity cards. We asked why, they said that there are all kinds of suspicions...

Attorney Adi Kedar met, Sunday evening in Petach Tikva, with people from the Samarian Jewish community of Yitzhar, who have been detained by the Shabak Israel Security Agency. He said the two still have not been told the reason for their arrest. One is a 17-year-old resident of Alon Moreh who studies at Yitzhar's Od Yoseph Chai (Joseph is Still Alive) yeshiva who was arrested at the entrance to the school. The other is a Yitzhar resident who was arrested while in a car on the Geha Highway, east of Tel Aviv. They face a remand hearing, Monday, in the...

Dozens of Yitzhar residents came together for a spontaneous show of affection for a dozen residents of the town who were forced to leave their homes after police handed out administrative restraining orders banning them from Yitzhar. The event was also attended by Samaria Council chairman Gershon Mesika, who praised the dedication of the twelve for their work on behalf of the Land of Israel. He promised that the Council would do whatever it could to help the group, and their families. “The Shin Bet has done a disgusting thing which just should not be done, reminding us of actions...

Police handed out administrative restraining orders early Tuesday morning against some residents of the Samaria Jewish community of Yitzhar. The orders were signed by Central Command Chief Maj.-Gen. Avi Mizrahi. Mizrahi has had a long running vendetta against Yitzhar, and several weeks ago called to close its yeshiva. Mizrahi made the comments in an interview on Channel 2 News, saying that some of the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria have “centers out of which terrorist elements come,” and adding that “the yeshiva in Yitzhar has several people whose norms are not consistent with democracy and this yeshiva should be...

The four residents of Yitzhar who were arrested in today's early-morning police raid in their homes are already free, having been released during the course of the day. The Shomron Residents Committee released this statement: "At 4:30 this morning, a staggering 200 elite police officers were mobilized, in cooperation with the Shabak (Israel Security Agency), in an operation to detain four law-abiding citizens in their homes and to confiscate a small number of computers in the Shomron community of Yitzhar, after a prolonged search. "No reason for this enormous waste of police time and manpower has yet been given, and...

Soldiers at an IDF post near the Samaria town of Yitzhar – not far from Itamar, the site of the murder of the Fogel family just weeks ago – detected an attempted invasion of Arab terrorists on Friday night. The two terrorists who were attempting to get into the town escaped after a chase by IDF troops and the town's security brigade. Soldiers detected two suspicious looking characters outside the town's security perimeter fence at about midnight Friday. The two were detected when they were about 150 meters from the fence, and were continuing to advance towards it. Troops focused...

A crude rocket has been fired by an Israeli student at a Palestinian village in the West Bank, Israeli security officials have said. No-one was injured by the rocket, which was fired from a Jewish theological seminary in Yitzhar settlement. The incident is being investigated by the Shin Bet security agency. No arrests have so far been made. The use of home-made rockets is more usually associated with Palestinian groups firing into Israel from Gaza. The incident is reported to have happened about two weeks ago but details have only just emerged. The rocket landed in the area between the...