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Eitam Farm: Participating in Drawing the Map of Israel
What shapes the map of Israel - politicians or the people on the ground? At Eitam Farm we see the impact of a shepherd and his farm can do to hold onto historic and strategically significant land in Israel.
J.P. Katz
Feb 226 min read


Israel Rewrites the Rules in Judea and Samaria: Enforcement, Land Rights, and a Shift in Policy
Unprecedented legislative and policy shifts in Judea and Samaria. The developments include aggressive enforcement against illegal construction and the nullification of a decades-old "Jordanian Law 40" that barred Jews from purchasing land in the territory.
J.P. Katz
Feb 185 min read


Haredim on the Hill
We interview Ephraim, a resident in Jerusalem is responding to the Jerusalem's dense urban planning, high rise towers and shrinking apartments all accompanied by rising prices and cost of living. He is building his home in the hills of Judea Samaria in an effort to give his children a different expression of Torah life.
J.P. Katz
Feb 83 min read


The State That Declare War But Cannot Build a Village: How Bureaucracy Paralyzed Israel’s Ability to Found New Communities
Israel’s failure to establish new communities—even within its 1948 borders—is not ideological but institutional. Decades of government decisions have gone unimplemented because real authority has shifted from elected officials to unelected planning and legal bureaucracies that block execution. The result is a state capable of major military action, yet unable to build a single new village, leaving strategic regions weakened by decades of paralysis.
J.P. Katz
Feb 55 min read


Israel to Confiscate Equipment Used for Illegal Construction in Area C
A Quiet Policy Revolution in Area C A major but largely underreported policy shift has just taken place in Judea and Samaria, one that could fundamentally alter the reality on the ground in Area C. According to Naomi Kahn, Director of the International Division at Regavim, Israel has finally implemented a long-sought enforcement tool: granting the Civil Administration full authority to impound and confiscate heavy machinery used in illegal construction by the Palestinian Auth
J.P. Katz
Feb 52 min read


The People Held the Line
In an era of echo chambers and social media information bubbles, I wrote and produced this song and video as a message in a bottle to my 60+ year old self so I would remember the raw emotion and frustration in this place and time. There are obviously volumes of books one could write, but in 8 minutes this song and video emotionally express how I have personally understood and experienced the past two biblically epic years of collective survival here in the Holy Land.
J.P. Katz
Nov 16, 20254 min read


The "Settlers" of Judea, Samaria & Jordan Valley | The Pioneers (Ep. 1)
Moshe farms land in one of the most highly disputed pieces of real estate in the world, in the middle of a desert. This is his story.
J.P. Katz
Jun 16, 20242 min read


Are governments unknowingly funding genocidal education?
Did you know that taxpayers around the world indirectly fund genocidal education in Hamas and Palestinian schools via the U.N.?
J.P. Katz
Oct 16, 20231 min read


Has Israel Created a State of Chaos in the West Bank?
Ranking members of the Israeli Knesset weigh in about how the Israeli military and governmental leaders need to wake up before its too late.
J.P. Katz
Oct 8, 20231 min read


Derech Emunah: Founding a New Yishuv in the Hills of Judea |הישוב מאחז החרדי דרך אמונה בהרי יהודה
This film chronicles the actual early morning Aug. 15, 2022 ascent by approximately 50 - 100 men to build a new village in the Judea hills.
J.P. Katz
Aug 21, 20223 min read


Is the Palestinian Authority Using Bedouin Children?
Is the European Union funding squatters to live east of East Jerusalem putting the lives of Bedouin children in harms way?
J.P. Katz
Dec 12, 20216 min read


Visiting a Jewish village in a Partisan Maccabee Camp
What is it like to live in a village with 26 families on the top of a mountain overlooking some of the most transformative events in....
J.P. Katz
Dec 1, 20212 min read


Farming the Judean Hills (West Bank)
This documentary looks at the Arab Israeli relations not from the viewpoint of politicians but rather from the citizens on the ground.
J.P. Katz
Oct 3, 20213 min read
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