Daniella Weiss

Daniella Weiss (Hebrew: דניאלה וייס; 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 Archived October 1, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  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.


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