Yossi Dagan

Jewish worshippers hold daytime prayer at Joseph's Tomb for first time in 25 years

The service came following a decision by Defense Minister Israel Katz to expand entry hours to the site beyond nighttime visits.

Jewish worshippers pray during morning services at Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, West Bank, January 29, 2026
Charlie Kirk holds an Israeli flag outside the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank

Samaria Regional Council to create official Charlie Kirk commemoration

Kindergarten opened in settlement of Homesh, in the West Bank, September 1, 2025.

'The Disengagement is dead!' Settlers open first kindergarten in Homesh in 20 years

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Shiloh with US House Speaker Mike Johnson joined by US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the Yesha council.

Judea and Samaria a part of Israel, US will work to end use of term West Bank, Mike Johnson says


Thousands of Jewish worshippers visit Joseph's Tomb year after arson

The visit, which was the largest since before the coronavirus pandemic, was held one year after Palestinians torched the shrine.

 Thousands of Jewish worshippers visit Joseph's Tomb, May 16, 2023

Charges dropped against West Bank settlers after disengagement repeal

The basis for the indictments against Rabbi Elishama Cohen and his colleagues and students, the 2005 Disengagement Law, was repealed on March 21.

 Visitors walk by the water tower on the ruins of the evacuated settlement of Homesh on August 27, 2019.

Israeli right-wing leaders call for unity at Joseph's Tomb

During the visit, armed clashes broke out between Israeli forces and Palestinians in the area, with three Palestinians injured amid the clashes.

 Culture Minister Miki Zohar, Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu, MK Zvi Sukkot and Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan at Joseph's Tomb.

Palestinian shot and killed by Israeli in central West Bank - report

The incident occurred after violence broke out between residents of a Palestinian village and a nearby Israeli settlement.

 Israeli soldiers stand guard between Jewish settlers and Palestinians from the West Bank village of Burqah on December 23, 2021.

Yossi Dagan's slander against the IDF is a step too far - opinion

Samaria Regional Council Yossi Dagan should know better than to try to taint an IDF officer or IDF unit due to his own partisan politics.

 IDF soldiers cast their votes in a ballot box of the Golan Brigade 474 for Israel's general election at the Sa'ar military base in central Golan Heights on November 1, 2022.

IDF chief rejects accusation army spokesman is left-wing

Kohavi said, "Any attempt to connect the IDF spokesman to political activities is part of a smear campaign which must be stopped immediately and has no place" in Israeli public rhetoric.

 BRIG.-GEN. RAN KOCHAV, former commander of the air force’s Air Defense Command, takes over as the new chief IDF spokesperson and member of the General Staff.

Surfside, Samaria Regional Council sign sister-city agreement despite BDS opposition

Danziger recalled the gratitude he and the residents of Surfside felt toward Israel, which sent an IDF search and rescue team to help in the aftermath of a 12-story condominium collapse.

 Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan and the Mayor of Surfside Florida hold up the sister city agreements they signed together in the council's office on Thursday.

Israel enters EU culture program which excludes West Bank settlements

West Bank settler groups and regional council heads condemned the government's decision to join the EU's flagship Creative Europe program.

 Jewish settlers look on during a march near Hebron in the West Bank, June 21, 2021

Settler violence is a strategic threat to Israel, Horowitz warns

This is the latest in a number of leaked media reports about heated conversations in the security cabinet on settler violence.

 SETTLERS HURL stones at Palestinians during the annual harvest season, near the settlement of Yitzhar in 2020.

Border Police evacuate huts on West Bank Homesh hilltop

Border Police evacuated a number of huts and tents with families on the Homesh hilltop where the family of terror victim Yehuda Dimentman lives.

 Israeli Border Police evacuate modular building on the West Bank Homesh hilltop.