Efrat settlement

Terror infiltration sirens sound in Efrat after car with Palestinian plate enters West Bank city

The IDF's Home Front Command announced that the incident is now over and residents are permitted to exit their homes.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Efrat.
THE CHAIR OF The ANU – Museum of the Jewish People Irina Nevzlin with new CEO Oded Revivi.

The ANU – Museum of the Jewish People announces new CEO

Revivi was the mayor of Efrat for the last 15 years and will bring extensive management experience and his skills as mayor, alongside the partnerships he forged.

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Rabbi Hayim Leiter performs a bris ceremony in Har Gilo, West Bank, on October 7, 2024.

I realized the depth of my Israeli trauma after rocket exploded while circumcising a baby - opinion

My emotional tank is at an all-time low. The day marked a year of persistent stress that isn’t over. We’ve had no distance from the tragedy that we’re all still living through.

|ByRABBI HAYIM LEITER/JTA
Founder of the Ohr Torah Stone Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, and the founding Chief Rabbi of Efrat, received a lifetime achievement award at the Saad Conference on August 1. 

Founding chief rabbi of West Bank's Efrat receives lifetime achievement award

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin received a lifetime achievement award during the Saad Conference earlier this month.

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Israel to advance plans for 3,000 settler homes after terror attack

Ma’aleh Adumim, located next to the site of Thursday's attack, is due to receive authorization for the construction of an additional 2,350 housing units. 

FEBRUARY 23, 2024ByTOVAH LAZAROFF, HANNAH SARISOHN
A general view of houses in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank

Efrat: The story of one of Israel's most unique, successful settlements

Efrat Regional Council head Oded Revivi spoke to the Magazine about the Israeli settlement municipality he has managed for the last 15 years.

JULY 1, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
NEW BEGINNINGS: First day of school, 1983.

Israeli settlement founder Rabbi Riskin talks 40 years of Efrat

The ‘Magazine’ sat down with founding father Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin and wife Vicky to discuss the celebrated realization of their vision, and their concerns.

JULY 1, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin laid the cornerstone for Efrat in 1980, occupancy began in 1983.

Grapevine May 31, 2023: A triple-digit age

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

MAY 31, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
MORDECHAI SPIEGLER of Israel gets entangled with Vietnam's goalkeeper in an international match at the National Stadium, Ramat Gan in 1964.

The state needs to improve dialogue with the municipalities - opinion

Should the state choose to promote the decentralization of powers for the local municipalities it will discover that solutions will emerge from the local government.

MAY 21, 2023ByODED REVIVI
HIZKY SIVAK of the Emek Hefer Regional Council is removed by security personnel from a stormy meeting and vote at the Knesset Finance Committee on the Arnona Fund, last Monday.

Israel Remembrance Day: Rabbi Leo Dee on qualities that must be saved

The ceremony was opened by Rabbi Leo Dee, who has lost his wife Lucy and his two daughters Maia and Rina in a brutal shooting attack this past Passover.

APRIL 25, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
Rabbi Leo Dee is seen speaking at an Israel Remembrance Day ceremony.

How Efrat's community will rise out of tragedy to honor a family's legacy - opinion

When the bullets of the terrorists pierced the pure hearts of Maia, Rina and Lucy Dee, they had hoped to pierce our hearts as well. They didn’t understand that we as a people are unstoppable.

APRIL 14, 2023ByODED REVIVI
Efrat Residents standing outside their homes with Israeli flags to show solidarity with the Dee family, following the death of Lucy Dee, who died of her wounds three days after the deadly terror attack that killed her two daughters Rina and Maia, in Efrat, in the West Bank, April 10, 2023.

Israelis of Gush Etzion help the Dees cope with terror, loss

SOCIAL AFFAIRS: Efrat has a population of 13,500. An estimated 50%-60% of residents are native English-speakers. After the terror attack, the community leapt into action.

APRIL 14, 2023ByRIVKAH LAMBERT ADLER
ONE OF several signs of support for the Dee family created by neighbor Ashira Landau.

In wake of heavy loss, Rabbi Leo Dee calls for unity behind Israeli flag

It only took about an hour after Rabbi Dee's speech before the hashtag #DeesDay started picking up on social media platforms.

APRIL 10, 2023ByNOA FEIGENBAUM
An Israeli flag [Ilustrative]

Thousands attend funeral of terror victims Maia, Rina Dee

The Dee sisters were murdered in a terror attack on Friday morning, and their mother still remains in critical condition.

APRIL 9, 2023ByRIVKAH LAMBERT ADLER
Family and friends attend the funeral of Maia and Rina Dee at the Gush Etzion Regional Cemetery in Kfar Etzion on April 9, 2023. The two sisters were killed 2 days ago at a terror attack in the Jordan valley, Their mother, injured in the attack, is still in critical condition.

Progressives, liberals alike perpetuate evil with moral ambivalence - opinion

See no evil: In what universe is there a moral equivalency between ramming a vehicle into people standing at a bus stop and a young person losing his life in a crossfire with terrorists?

FEBRUARY 27, 2023ByARDIE GELDMAN
AFTER THE funeral, a mourner crouches at the grave of six-year-old Yaakov Israel Pally, killed in a car-ramming attack in Jerusalem, earlier this month.