El Matan

Shooting attack prevented in Samaria community

Shin Bet foiled shooting attack in El Matan. Terrorist wanted to attack Jews in response to fight with his parents.

11-year-old Ayala Shapira is improving – and her mother attributes that fact to numerous miracles her daughter has merited.

Ya'alon has begun to promote the legislation to approve El-Matan as part of the Ma'ale Shomron municipality.

Residents of the Samaria community of El-Matan are demanding that the government reopen a safer road that had been closed to them.

High Court discusses an appeal over an illegal mosque in Burin. The construction of the mosque is in “contempt of the law," say judges.

The official State position is that an illegal mosque in Burin, south of Shechem and near Brun, must be sealed. So it informed the Supreme Court.

Decision is the first time that a leftist motion leads to legalization of Jewish building in Judea and Samaria.

Netanyahu swings to the side of nationalists and orders Barak to ignore a court order to seal an "illegal” synagogue in Samaria.

The residents of El-Matan plan to make the sealing of their community synagogue by security forces "as difficult as possible," they say.

Hundreds of protesters demand that El Matan synagogue not be sealed, citing unhampered construction of an illegal mosque in nearby Arab village.

PA Arabs angered by call to save synagogue, accuse Jews of seeking the demolition of a nearby mosque.

The L'Herut Tzion movement organized a volunteer program for overseas students to work and live in the Jewish hilltop community of El Matan.

El Matan synagogue to be sealed off after holiday period, says court. MK Danon: "If this is the first course of peace, what will be for dessert?"

Jews from the village of El Matan and activists from L’Herut Tzion demonstrated on Wednesday against US pressure to destroy their Synagogue.