The Shomron Regional Council has decided not to wait for others to take the lead on diplomatic efforts, and has established its own Foreign Ministry Department. The Shomron Liaison Office has been effectively reaching out to elected officials in the EU and elsewhere to provide them with a balanced picture of the realities in...
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This evening at 6:30, residents of the mountain ridge Gav HaHar communities in central Shomron will gather at Tapuach Junction to protest a terror attack that left one dead this morning. Evyatar Borovsky was killed this morning at about 8:15 by an Arab terrorist who stabbed him from behind and then shot him to...
Read more →(Headline) Guest at Lag B’Omer bonfire in Samaria – Top EU Parliament Official (Photo credit: Meir Berachia, Shomron Regional Council) Top Official of European Parliament landed last night and came straight from Ben-Gurion Airport to… a Lag B’Omer bonfire in Kfar Tapuach. “Foreign Ministry” of Samaria gears up. ————– An unexpected guest at a Lag...
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While some members of the EU are calling for sanctions on products from the West Bank, others have taken their own steps to learn what’s really going on here by actually visiting the Shomron region and meeting with locals. Today, Yves Nidegger – a member of the Swiss Parliament, and his wife Maria took...
Read more →Following the success of a delegation of Shomron leaders to German and Swedish parliaments last week, the Shomron plans to host EU representatives tomorrow. Last week, Deputy Director of the Shomron Regional Council Yossi Dagan and Shay Attias, Chairman of Foreign Affairs, met with elected officials in Berlin’s Bundestag and Swedish Parliament in Stockholm...
Read more →Title: The appointment of Livni: Both strategic error and political folly The head of the Shomron Regional Council, Gershon Mesika, today (Thursday) condemned the agreement whereby Tzipi Livni will serve as Justice Minister and will be in charge of the negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. “To let Tzipi Livni conduct these negotiations, is like...
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Senator David Storobin (R), New York State Senate, tours Samaria and is impressed: “You have to see it with your own eyes – it’s no different than the New York City and New Jersey suburbs”. The Senator from New York tours Samaria and doesn’t conceal his good impressions: “They said it was just caravans,...
Read more →Arnon Lapid, commentator for a kibbutz newspaper, on his tour of the Shomron: “The conclusion, which was becoming clearer and clearer (even to the point of frustration) the more we traveled and probed the vastness of the Shomron – Evacuation is no longer a solution”. —- Arnon Lapid, a senior commentator for the kibbutz...
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Two weeks ago, the head of the Shomron Regional Council, Gershon Mesika, made an unprecedented visit to the European Union Parliament in Brussels, during which he made a historic speech, the first of its kind by a settlement leader before the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Parliament. During the last year and a half,...
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