Daniella Weiss

Daniella Weiss

Daniella Weiss (born 1945) is an Israeli settlement movement activist, and a former mayor of Kedumim, an Israeli settlement located in the West Bank. She was first elected mayor of Kedumim in September 1996 and was re-elected for a second term in November 2001.

Since the 1970s, Weiss has been a notable figure in the Gush Emunim settlement movement, active in the establishment of many new communities in the West Bank.[1]

She was arrested and promptly released in December 2008 in Hebron.[2]

Daniella Weiss rejected the Price tag policy, saying that it had diverted settlers from what she considered to be their most important task - setting up additional caravans and tents to lay claim to ever more hilltops in the West Bank.[3] She stated that the only "price tag" action acceptable to her is the establishment of a new outpost in response to every outpost that had been demolished by Israeli authorities.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Kedumim.org
  2. ↑ Tovah Lazaroff; Shelley Paz (December 8, 2008). "Sneh to Barak: Jail Daniella Weiss". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved October 26, 2014.
  3. ↑ James Hider (October 15, 2009). "West Bank settlers use 'price tag' tactic to punish Palestinians". The Times.(subscription required)
  4. ↑ Nadav Shragai (October 4, 2008). דניאלה וייס: השב"כ מעורב בהנחת המטען בבית שטרנהל [Daniella Weiss: Shin Bet involved in laying cargo at Beit Sternhell]. Haaretz (in Hebrew). Retrieved August 14, 2014.