settlement movement

TJS S5 Interlude – Interview with Settler Leader Daniella Weiss

It is rare that someone who begins a movement is still leading strong fifty years later. Daniella Weiss was part of the original settlement of Judea and Samaria in the early 1970s, specifically Elon Moreh and Kedumim where she served as mayor.  She remains an outspoken force within the Jewish settlement movement today with the…

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TJS S5E5 – Gush Emunim

Many things within Israeli society were threatened with collapse in the wake of the Yom Kippur War, and perhaps the most profound danger was a loss of spirit. This episodes explores the rise of the ‘bloc of the faithful,’ vanguard of today’s “settlement movement” who moved to inherit the pioneering spirit of Israel in this…

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