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23 Jan, 2023, Samaria: Much of Samaria and Judea is located in Area C, the Jewish-majority portion. Leftists wish to prevent Jews building here, Rightists seek to prevent Arabs building here. The leader of the new right-wing government has said that neither would be allowed to build illegally.
Update: See this linked post.
13 Jan 2023, Samaria: We are in rehearsals with several choirs in preparation for this March 2, 2023 performance with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.
A December 2016 performance of just the final section, with our Kamti Ensemble Choir:
Details, Names of Performers and Conductor, and Tickets:
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13 Jan 2023, Samaria: 32.6% of people between age 35 and 67 lived below the poverty line in 2021. About 20% overall.
https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/article-728338
9 Jan 2023 Samaria: New archeological discovery confirms that silver metal coins were used for transactions here as of 3600 years ago:
Also news: The new, more religious government in Israel is making changes to enforce Shabbat further than before in the national level:
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-727956
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-726933
21 Dec 2022, Samaria: Ms. Furchner was 18 when she worked as a secretary of an office of a gas camp. She claims ignorance even though her office was shown to have a direct line of vision view of the gas facilities; her husband in 1954 admitted his knowledge of the deadly activities in that camp:
While Nazareth is a predominantly Arab Christian Israeli city, the victims have traditional Muslim names. So they are Muslim Arab Israeli citizens who were attacked, probably related to the drug dealing business.
A video to show how the donate page works:
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This audio was recorded on a potato.
7 Dec 2022: Representatives from the Jewish Community are in meetings this week with the White House.
“When you allow antisemitism to go unchecked, it’s never just the Jews who are at risk [although] they are always first,” said Ted Deutch, CEO of AJC, quoted in the article.
5 Dec 2022 Israel Now report: The terrorist tried and failed to open the car door to attack the man pictured (below, left) and his wife. Then the terrorist found a rock and smashed the rear passenger window. At that point the driver (pictured) drew his weapon and fired. The terrorist fled, and stabbed a nearby soldier in the face. When other soldiers approached he resisted arrest for awhile before being fatally shot.
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Flu season: Unknown what this would do to travel requirements for tourists.
And something cool from Archeology!
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30 Nov 2022, Samaria: Following after last week’s bus station bombing that left two dead and dozens injured, yesterday we have a car ramming attack carried out by an Arab with Israeli citizenship, wife, kids, and job at a supermarket. Will the Palestinian Authority financially reward his family for this?
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