In memory of victims of Palestinian terror and to show gratitude to Israel’s dedicated soldiers, a “home-away-from-home” was established in Gush Etzion.
Below the town of Efrat is a 2,000-year-old aqueduct, the Biyar, which would bring natural spring water to collecting pools south of Bethlehem and to Jerusalem.
Memorial Day in Israel happens to be on the day in which Kfar Etzion fell to the Jordanian Arab Legion, which massacred hundreds on that day in May, 1948.
Thousands of Israelis accompanied Maj. (res.) Eliav Gelman, who was killed during a terrorist attack on Wednesday, as he was laid to rest at the Kfar Etzion cemetery.
A Jewish man from Neve Daniel, a community in Gush Etzion just south of Jerusalem, was the latest victim in the ongoing Arab terror attacks against Israelis.
Palestinians terrorists apparently set fire to a synagogue and burned Torah scrolls in an Israeli community in Judea. International leaders have yet to condemn the incident.
Among her many professional achievements and hobbies, Toby Klein Greenwald directs first-rate theatrical performances in Judea that are by women and for women only.
"We see ourselves not as individuals, but on a mission connecting young people to their Jewish roots," says Rabbi Simcha Hochbaum, who educates the public about the significance of the Jewish city of Hebron.
Judea is an area referred to as the West Bank, with the reference point being Jordan in an attempt to diminish the Jewish historical and biblical claim.
Israelis in Jerusalem, Gush Etzion, the Golan Heights and other mountainous areas brace themselves for a storm that threatens to down trees, close roads and cut power.