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   Palestine News Network    
   February 20, 2018    
   The decision included Ariel University in the Ariel settlement that built on the Salfeet Governorate's land, the Orut College in the Kana settlement, built on the lands of Nablus governorate, and the Herzog College in the Alon Shvut settlement near the Bethlehem and Jerusalem Governorates. The Nationalà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Haaretz    
   January 24, 2018    
   The Council for Higher Education in Judea and Samaria is responsible for three institutions of higher learning in the West Bank: Ariel University, Orot Israel Academic College of Education in Elkana and Herzog College in Alon Shvut. A section of the bill requires the Israeli council to automatically recognizeà...     
    
    
 
  
 
 
   
  
   
   Jewish Link of New Jersey    
   January 19, 2018    
   Yehuda Goldberg of Passaic, NJ, with his night seder chavruta, Eli Benuck of Beit Shemesh, Israel, in the Yeshivat Har Etzion Beit Midrash. (Credit: Yeshivat Har Etzion). Yehuda Goldberg is studying at Yeshivat Har Etzion (“the Gush”) in Alon Shvut. He grew up in Passaic, attended Yeshivat Noam forà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Yated.com    
   January 18, 2018    
   The more well-known settlements in the area are Maaleh Rechavam, Karmei Tzur, Emek Ha'Elah, Alon Shvut, Har Etzion, Neve Daniel, and Tekoa. The area under the council's jurisdiction is bordered in the north by Yerushalayim and the Binyamin Regional Council and in the south by the city of Chevron,à...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Haaretz    
   December 20, 2017    
   ... "new settlement of Amihai, a new neighborhood in Kochav Yaakov, and a new site near Alon Shvut." He also said that new "construction of infrastructure in Givat Hamatos...would solidify the ring of settlements isolating East Jerusalem from the southern West Bank." Mladenov added that during the period,à...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Breaking Israel News    
   December 18, 2017    
   Archeologists believe the location of ancient Zechariah is indeed in the Gush, in the small Arab village Hirbeit Zakariya, including the lone oak tree (described below) of Alon Shvut. The town's streets are named after Elazar, one of the Maccabee's relatives, and the town still exists today as a flourishingà...     
    
    
 
  
 
 
   
  
   
   Haaretz    
   December 10, 2017    
   The West Bank council also oversees Orot Israel College, in Elkana, and the Herzog Academic College in Alon Shvut. The legislation was sponsored by MKs Shuli Moalem-Refaeli (Habayit Hayehudi) and Yakov Margi (Shas). The proposed legislation is one of a series of bills that Habayit Hayehudi andà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Haaretz    
   November 6, 2017    
   During the Six-Day War, he fought in the Gaza Strip and later joined the Jerusalem brigade, and in the Yom Kippur War, he fought on the Egyptian front. He later served as the rabbi of a battalion, a brigade and then a division. In 1976, he established the Zomet Institute in Alon Shvut in the Gush Etzion blocà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Haaretz    
   November 6, 2017    
   During the Six-Day War, he fought in the Gaza Strip and later joined the Jerusalem brigade, and in the Yom Kippur War, he fought on the Egyptian front. He later served as the rabbi of a battalion, a brigade and then a division. In 1976, he established the Zomet Institute in Alon Shvut in the Gush Etzion blocà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Palestine News Network    
   August 24, 2017    
   The three new settlements will be Alon Shvut and Gva'ot settlement outposts in Jerusalem. Reportedly, the lands on which the settlements that will be built have different classifications by the Israeli occupation authority. Some of them are under the control of the Israeli Military. Arrangements have beenà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   WAFA    
   December 31, 1999    
   The academic institutions include Ariel University, which is located in the Salfit Governorate (settlement of Ariel), Orot College in the Salfit Governorate (settlement of Elkana), and Herzog College located near Bethlehem and Jerusalem (settlement of Alon Shvut). Ashrawi said the legislation is part of theà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   World Israel News    
   December 31, 1999    
   ... by the state's authorities that most of the area there was in fact state land and that it was completely permissible to build on it. It was only last week that the Civil Administration granted approval to build temporary homes (caravans) in the nearby village of Alon Shvut for the soon-to-be-homeless families.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Haaretz    
   December 10, 2017    
   The West Bank council also oversees Orot Israel College, in Elkana, and the Herzog Academic College in Alon Shvut. The legislation was sponsored by MKs Shuli Moalem-Refaeli (Habayit Hayehudi) and Yakov Margi (Shas). The proposed legislation is one of a series of bills that Habayit Hayehudi andà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Jewish Link of Bronx, Westchester and Connecticut    
   December 1, 2017    
   Jonah Chill is studying at Yeshivat Har Etzion (“the Gush”) in Alon Shvut. ... I believe my adjustment to living in Alon Shvut was very easy because of its similarities to New Rochelle in many regards: the relatively quiet nature of the yishuv, the beautiful scenery when I walk outside my room, the friendly ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Cleveland Jewish News    
   November 27, 2017    
   He was killed when Mohammed Abed Odeh Harub opened fire near at the Gush Etzion junction near Alon Shvut on a minivan full of students and teachers from Yeshivat Ashreinu in Beit Shemesh who were volunteering to clear a park at the outpost. The memorial ceremony is being organized by Efrat's ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Jewish Link of New Jersey    
   November 16, 2017    
   (l-r) Hillel Koslowe (Teaneck), Avi Cooper (Teaneck), Yehuda Koslowe (Teaneck) and Eitan Jeselsohn (Newton, MA) on the campus of Yeshivat Har Etzion during pre-yeshiva orientation. (Credit: Yeshivat Har Etzion). Yehuda Koslowe is studying at Yeshivat Har Etzion (“the Gush”) in Alon Shvut. He grew ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Haaretz    
   November 6, 2017    
   During the Six-Day War, he fought in the Gaza Strip and later joined the Jerusalem brigade, and in the Yom Kippur War, he fought on the Egyptian front. He later served as the rabbi of a battalion, a brigade and then a division. In 1976, he established the Zomet Institute in Alon Shvut in the Gush Etzion bloc ...     
    
    
 
  
 
 
   
  
   
   http://hamodia.com    
   December 31, 1999    
   Among the victims were Rabbi Yaakov Don, Hy”d, of Alon Shvut, and Ezra Schwartz, Hy”d, a yeshivah student from Sharon, Massachusetts.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Haaretz    
   March 20, 2017    
   He was killed when Harub opened fire near Alon Shvut in the Etzion bloc of the West Bank on a minivan full of students and teachers from Yeshivat Ashreinu in Beit Shemesh, who were volunteering in the area.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Middle East Monitor    
   March 20, 2017    
   Israeli military court in Ofer Prison issued on Sunday four life terms against a Palestinian prisoner from the West Bank city of Hebron, Quds Press reported.     
    
    
  
  
   
   International Middle East Media Center    
   February 23, 2017    
   The four Israelis who were killed in the incident have been identified as Yael Yekutiel, 20, from Givataiym east of Tel Aviv, Shir Hajaj, 22, from Ma'ale Adumim colony in the occupied West Bank, Shira Tzur, 20, from Haifa, and Erez Orbach, 20, from ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   The Jewish Star    
   February 9, 2017    
   Letters of condolences were also sent to the families of the three other victims of the attack - Lt. Yael Yekutiel of Givatayim, Cadet Shira Tzur of Haifa, and Cadet Erez Orbach of Alon Shvut. Mrs. Helen Spirn, Head of School, received a note ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   http://hamodia.com    
   January 24, 2017    
   The four Israeli victims were Lieutenant Yael Yekutiel Hy"d, (20) of Givatayim, Cadet Shir Hajaj, Hy"d (22) of Maaleh Adumim, Cadet Shira Tzur, Hy"d (20) from Haifa, and Cadet Erez Orbach, Hy"d (20), from Alon Shvut. The Palestinian Authority did not ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Breaking Israel News    
   January 14, 2017    
   This year's 10th of Tevet Fast was the final day for 20-year-old Yael Yekutiel of Givatayim, 22-year-old Shir Hajaj of Ma'aleh Adumim, 20-year-old Shira Tzur of Haifa, and 20-year old Erez Orbach of Alon Shvut. Many more are still recovering from ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Jewish Link of New Jersey    
   January 12, 2017    
   About 15 minutes before the fast was over, my husband, an ER doctor, got a call from a local ambulance volunteer who informed him that one of the murdered soldiers was from Alon Shvut. My husband was asked to be present as various family membersà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Breaking Israel News    
   January 11, 2017    
   Erez Orbach, 20, from Alon Shvut in south of Jerusalem, Shira Tzur, 20, from Haifa, Second Lieutenant Shir Hajaj, 22, from Maale Adumim, east of Jerusalem, and Second Lieutenant Yael Yekutiel, 20, from Givatayim near Tel Aviv.     
    
    
  
  
   
   My Jewish Learning    
   January 10, 2017    
   Yesterday all the residents of Alon Shvut Gush Etzion where I live received an email from the rabbi of the settlement, reminding us among other things of how wonderful our community is, how vibrant and healthy it is, how our young people are the cream ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Haaretz    
   January 9, 2017    
   Orbach, who had U.S. citizenship and lived in Alon Shvut, was also posthumously promoted to second lieutenant and buried in Kfar Etzion.     
    
    
  
  
   
   New York Times    
   January 8, 2017    
   The four soldiers killed were Erez Orbach, 20, from Alon Shvut, in the West Bank; Yael Yekutiel, 20, from Givatayim, near Tel Aviv; Shir Hajaja, 22, from Maale Adumim in the West Bank; and Shira Tzur, 20, from Haifa.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Haaretz    
   January 8, 2017    
   The four victims have been identified as 20-year-old Yael Yekutiel from Givataiym, 22-year-old Shir Hajaj from Ma'ale Adumim, 20-year-old Shira Tzur from Haifa and 20-year-old Erez Orbach from Alon Shvut. Hajaj was a commander in the Israel Defenseà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   +972 Magazine    
   December 31, 2016    
   [3] In this table we did not take into account seizure orders in the settlements of Alon Shvut, Kfar Etzion, Rosh Tzurim and Efrat, which were established based on seizure orders that overlapped with Jewish lands purchased before 1948 or lands later ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Jewish Link of New Jersey    
   December 29, 2016    
   Part of this ancient road has been exposed in today's Gush Etzion, between Alon Shvut and Neve Daniel. And on this road was discovered an enormous ancient mikvah with two beautiful openings: an entrance and an exit.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Haaretz    
   December 23, 2016    
   In the 80's he studied at the Har Etzion Yeshiva in the Israeli West Bank settlement Alon Shvut. Greenblatt and his wife, psychiatrist Dr.     
    
    
  
  
   
   The Jewish Voice    
   December 6, 2016    
   Rabbi Yoel Bin-Nun, a resident of Alon Shvut and a founder of Ofra (as well as a frequent critic of the religious Zionist community) said the path to compromise on this issue will come when "all believers in one God [decide] to speak one language.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Jewish Telegraphic Agency    
   October 6, 2016    
   Israeli Minister of Religious Services David Azoulay visiting a luxury mikvah in the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut, Aug. 25, 2015.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Forward    
   September 22, 2016    
   He is also a teacher and leader at Herzog College in Israel, a teachers college in a West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut. According to the Jewish Link, Berman has lived with his wife and children in Neve Daniel, another West Bank settlement, home to aà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Analisi Difesa    
   September 21, 2016    
   Tali sistemi si sono rivelati alquanto efficaci riducendo gli effetti dell'attentato all'aeroporto di Glasgow appunto, oppure quello di Alon Shvut obbligando il terrorista ad abbandonare la copertura ed il vantaggio fornitogli dal proprio veicolo per ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   The Jewish Voice    
   September 21, 2016    
   Fraenkel gained unwanted notoriety when her son, Naftali, was kidnapped with two other Israeli teenagers at the bus stop outside Alon Shvut, in Gush Etzion. The abduction sparked a massive manhunt known as Operation Brother's Keeper, and was followedà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   http://hamodia.com    
   September 21, 2016    
   YERUSHALAYIM - The government has approved a new road for Gush Etzion that will allow drivers to bypass the Gush Etzion Junction. The Junction, which allows drivers to turn off into Alon Shvut, Migdal Oz and other towns in the area, will continue toà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Forward    
   September 14, 2016    
   A search committee has recommended Rabbi Ari Berman as the next president of Yeshiva University. In an email sent Tuesday to members of the Y.U.     
    
    
  
  
   
   The Commentator    
   September 13, 2016    
   ... museum and an auditorium which hosts performances and lectures. In terms of higher education, Rabbi Berman currently serves on the executive leadership council of Herzog College, a small teacher's college in Alon Shvut. The Commentator will ...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Tablet Magazine    
   August 27, 2016    
   And the organizer of Trump's Israel outreach is Republicans Overseas Israel co-chair Marc Zell, an American-born lawyer and former law partner of George W. Bush-era Pentagon official Douglas Feith who now lives in Alon Shvut, a West Bank settlementà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Yated.com    
   August 10, 2016    
   After high school, Greenblatt learned at Yeshivat Har Etzion in the Alon Shvut community of Gush Etzion, and then continued to Yeshiva University for college.     
    
    
  
  
   
   http://hamodia.com    
   August 4, 2016    
   YERUSHALAYIM - Extensive deforestation in the Gush Etzion region carried out by government workers has caused dismay among residents and allegations of corruption, Arutz Sheva said on Thursday.     
    
    
  
  
   
   rabble.ca (blog)    
   August 3, 2016    
   There is at least one Olympic-sized pool in the West Bank, in the Alon Shvut settlement. It is racially segregated to exclude Palestinians.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Jewish Journal    
   July 26, 2016    
   Israeli Minister of Religious Services David Azoulay visiting a luxury mikvah in the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut, Aug. 25, 2015.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Tablet Magazine    
   July 24, 2016    
   Near his settlement of Alon Shvut, south of Jerusalem, Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger has been implementing the initiative's vision on the ground in his own push, Roots.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Jewish Link of New Jersey    
   May 19, 2016    
   I was standing next to the burial site of Rav Yaakov Don Hy"d, a man who lived in Alon Shvut, the same yishuv as my yeshiva is located.     
    
    
  
  
   
   BBC Indonesia    
   April 28, 2016    
   Hal ini meluapkan kemarahan dari para pemuda kami. Mereka pergi untuk membalasnya-untuk al-Aqsa, untuk tanah kelahiran mereka, dan untuk segalanya".     
    
    
  
  
   
   BBC News    
   April 27, 2016    
   At Alon Shvut, a settlement by the junction, the sons of Yaakov Don lead mourning prayers at their synagogue. The teacher, known for his broad smile, was murdered last November.     
    
   
  
   
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