Israel has sanctioned thousands of settlement housing units since U.S. president Donald Trump’s inauguration — and Trump’s pick for Israel envoy David Friedman is poised to help build some of them. Friedman is the president of American Friends of Beit El Institutions, which is building a new construction project in Beit El, a settlement deep…
On a weekday night in Beit El, dozens of teenage boys were packed into the study hall at the settlement’s new yeshiva, a tan stone building with a zig zag facade. It was a brisk night on the hilltop, and their coats and backpacks were scattered in the hallway. The yeshiva is Beit El’s crown…
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin marked the third night of Hanukkah by lighting a menorah in Beit El, the West Bank settlement that is supported by Donald Trump’s Israel envoy pick David Friedman. Friedman, Trump’s lawyer, is the president of American Friends of Beit El Institutions, which raises about $2 million a year from U.S. donors…
Dear David Friedman, Congratulations on your nomination to be U.S. Ambassador to Israel. I must say that I was alarmed to hear this news, as your rejection of decades of U.S. policy regarding a two-state solution and your smear of some liberal Jews as kapos should disqualify you from this position. T’ruah, the organization I…
President-elect Donald Trump once donated $10,000 to institutions located in the West Bank settlement of Beit El, one of its founders revealed on Sunday. Yaakov (“Ketsale”) Katz said in an interview with the settler radio station Galey Israel that the donation was made in honor of Trump’s lawyer and friend David Friedman, whom he has…
Israel gave final approval on Wednesday for plans to build 300 new homes in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, announcing the move as it carried out a court demolition order against two vacant apartment blocs at the site. Dozens of Jewish settlers have gathered over the past several days at Beit El…
Hundreds of Israel Police officers removed about 200 young adult demonstrators from two illegal apartment buildings slated for demolition in the Beit El settlement. Some 50 demonstrators were arrested, and the rest were dispersed using riot control measures early Tuesday morning. Police reportedly had arrived in the settlement in the early hours of the morning…
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