the term “West Bank” – the area to the West of the Jordan River captured from Jordan during the Six Day War (1967) – will be replaced with the region’s biblical name, “Judea and ...

Wafaa Khater grew up in the West Bank, an area west of the Jordan River that has been occupied by Israel since 1967. She moved to Norway to pursue her Ph.D. in physics at the University of Bergen.

“The U.S. should stop using the politically charged term West Bank to refer to the biblical ... the territory it controlled west of the Jordan River. Since the Six-Day War in June 1967, when ...

King Ahab’s realm was in Samaria, what is now known by most as the occupied West ... Jordan to the Mediterranean will only be Jewish sovereignty. Their slogan is, effectively, “From the river ...

Act,” the bill would prohibit government funds from being used to describe “the land annexed by Israel from Jordan during the 1967 Six-Day War” as the “West Bank,” except in ...