Peloni: Very good news indeed!
In a historic first, a landmark framework agreement was signed in the presence of Prime Minister Netanyahu between the government and the Samaria Regional Council to build 12,000 new housing units, together with thousands of square meters of commercial, industrial, and hotel space.
The total investment: 8.5 billion shekels. This is part of a broader vision that includes 18 new Jewish communities in northern Samaria, including the rebuilding of the four communities destroyed as part of the 2005 “disengagement” from Gaza and Northern Samaria, paving the way toward one million residents in the region.
At our recent Pulse of Israel Conference, we were honored to present Yossi Dagan, head of the Shomron Regional Council, with our Brave Leadership of Zion Award. Yossi was expelled from his home in Sanur during the tragic 2005 Gaza and Northern Shomron Disengagement, when his community was destroyed.
Rather than allowing that tragedy to define him, he transformed it into a mission. Through unwavering perseverance, vision, and deep emunah/faith, he has helped lead to the reestablishment of those four destroyed communities while also spearheading the establishment of 14 additional new communities in northern Shomron. This week’s government agreement marks another major milestone in that remarkable journey.
Just last week, our Pulse of Israel Mission visited Sanur and Chomesh, where we witnessed firsthand Jewish families rebuilding their lives in communities that were once destroyed. It is inspiring to see history being corrected before our eyes, reversing one of the gravest strategic mistakes in Israel’s modern history, that directly led to the growth of Iranian/Qatari/Turkish influence in Gaza and the tragic invasion of Oct. 7th.
This is the positive, unstoppable momentum of the Jewish people’s return to our biblical heartland.
The greatest threat to this momentum is a change in political leadership in the upcoming elections that would reverse these policies.
Leaders such as Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett, and Yair Lapid have signaled openness to governing alongside Yair Golan, who has publicly advocated reversing all of this government’s policies in Judea and Samaria. Their willingness to rely on the anti-Israel Arab parties, (that according to law should be forbidden from sitting in the Knesset, but the Supreme Court allows it!) just to topple Netanyahu, should raise serious concerns among every Israeli who does not want a return to Oct 6th policies based on appeasing a jihadi enemy.
In doing so, they are also disregarding the warnings of Oct. 7 survivors like Avida Bechar from Kibbutz Be’eri, who lost his wife and son in the October 7 massacre.
Reflecting on that day, Bechar has said that it was “not only armed terrorists, but also unarmed Gaza civilians of all ages who came and murdered my family and neighbors.” He has argued that “there can’t be any of them left in Gaza,” and that “there is no difference between those in Gaza and those in Judea and Samaria. October 7 woke me up to realize they kill us because of who we are, not because of where we live.”
For many Israelis, Bechar’s testimony underscores the belief that the conflict is driven not by borders or settlements, but by a deeper jihadi ideological rejection of Jewish sovereignty, making continued security measures and strengthening Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria all the more essential.
Many Israelis are disappointed with aspects of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s leadership, and no government is beyond criticism. At the same time, supporters argue that his wartime decisions and his government’s approach to Judea and Samaria have produced strategic achievements that would not have occurred under the leadership of Eizenkot, Bennet, Lapid, Golan or Gantz, who all are on record voicing support for greater restraint and concessions toward Israel’s jihadist enemies.
For those who understand strengthening Jewish sovereignty and communities in Judea and Samaria is essential to Israel’s future, preserving this momentum has become one of the defining political questions facing the country.
Regardless of what happens in our upcoming elections, our national trajectory remains positive. More and more Jews in Israel are awakening to our historic mission, understanding the importance of settling all liberated areas to ensure the jihadi threat can never return, ensuring evil jihadis do not remain in any of our land, while also reconnecting to the centrality of rebuilding the Third Temple as the ultimate expression of Jewish sovereignty in our ancestral homeland that will bring true peace based on truth, goodness, morality and God.
We are already well into this historic process of redemption. There is still much work ahead, but the direction is clear. It is no longer a question of if these goals will be realized—only when.
Am Yisrael Chai!!!
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