by Katie Eacrett | Mar 3, 2025 | News from the Land
Counted among the Jewish world’s most esteemed religious leaders, Rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeira left behind a most impactful legacy that is felt to this very day. Born and raised in Tafilalt, Morocco during the early nineteenth century, Rabbi Abuhatzeira became a...
by Katie Eacrett | Feb 17, 2025 | News from the Land
On April 4, 1968, Rabbi Moshe and Miriam Levinger, a visionary couple committed to restoring the Biblical Heartland, registered themselves and dozens of other like-minded devotees of the Land of Israel to stay at Hebron’s Park Hotel. Just ten months after the People...
by Katie Eacrett | Jan 13, 2025 | News from the Land
Over a decade and a half after the People of Israel miraculously liberated the Biblical Heartland, Samaria still remained largely barren of new communities. However, in February of 1981, a handful of Biblically devout families set their sights upon a spot near the...
by Katie Eacrett | Dec 9, 2024 | News from the Land
Twenty-three years ago, on the eve of Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), Elisha Medan, who was preparing to complete his stint of service in the IDF, took on a new mission with several friends in defense of the Land and People of Israel. Drawing their inspiration from...
by Katie Eacrett | Nov 11, 2024 | News from the Land
On Friday evening of May 2, 1980, a group of students from Nir Yeshiva (Biblical Academy for males), located on the outskirts of the Biblical city of Hebron, excitedly headed to the Cave of Machpelah, the ancient burial site of the Biblical Patriarchs and Matriarchs....
