Efrat settlement

US will offer passport services in West Bank for first time

The service, which is set to begin in Efrat on February 27, comes in addition to the current US consular services offered at its Embassy in Jerusalem and at a Tel Aviv branch office.

US passport, illustrative
IDF soldiers operating at the scene of the terror attack in Binyamin, August 21, 2025.

Masked men infiltrate West Bank settlement: 'Two years after Oct. 7 and security still fails' - KAN

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee with Efrat Regional Head Col. (Res.) Dovi Shefler.

Huckabee visits Efrat as officials claim that US supports Israeli sovereignty over West Bank

 Efrat.

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


Chief Rabbinate for whom?

We must continue to work to restore Rav Kook’s universalist vision and path. Judaism – and all Jews – deserve no less.

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin

IDF to lift seizure order on yeshiva in Yitzhar settlement

Military set to relinquish year-long seizure of Od Yosef Chai yeshiva in the West Bank.

Border Police officers try to prevent Jewish settlers from interrupting Palestinian traffic after a stabbing attack, near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Yitzhar [File]

Rabbi Riskin – until 120

Age is a number, no more and no less.

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin

Liberman and Bennett rally to Riskin’s support, call on chief rabbinate to back down

The Council of the Chief Rabbinate decides to summon Riskin for a hearing before deciding whether or not to grant a five year extension to his tenure as municipal chief rabbi of Efrat.

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin at Midreshet Lindenbaum.

White House: Settlement building isolates Israel in world, undermines chance for 2-state solution

“We have deep concerns about these highly contentious settlement construction announcements."

Homes in the Beit El settlement, West Bank

The man who quietly built Gush Etzion

Moshe Moshkowitz recalls the journey he took to contributing to the creation of 10 communities across the country.

Moshe Moshkowitz (left) in Kibbutz Masuot Yitzhak during Purim this year.