Daniella Weiss
דניאלה וייס
Daniella Weiss in 2016
Mayor of Kedumim
In office
September 1996 – 2007
Preceded byYosef Kapakh
Succeeded byHananel Dorani
Personal details
Born (1945-08-30) August 30, 1945
Bnei Brak, Mandatory Palestine
Alma materBar-Ilan University

Daniella Weiss (Hebrew: דניאלה וייס; born August 30, 1945) is a far-right[1] Israeli Orthodox Zionist 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 through 2007.[2]

Biography

Daniella Weiss was born in Bnei Brak in 1945. Her father was from the United States and her mother was born in Poland and raised in Palestine since her first year of life.[3] Both Jewish immigrants, they were members of Lehi, an ultranationalist Jewish terrorist group, and took part in underground activities. She attended a religious high school in Ramat Gan, and studied as part of the Atuda program. She studied English literature and political science at Bar-Ilan University.[4]

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 Shomron.[5]

In May 1987, she was arrested and convicted with respect to rioting by Israeli settlers in the city of Qalqiliya. She was sentenced to a fine and a suspended sentence.

In June 2007, she was charged with obstructing a police officer in the line of duty and assaulting a police officer. She was sentenced to 5 months probation. [6]

On October 3, 2008, she was arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer, interfering with a police investigation, and hindering a police officer in the performance of his duty. She was released from house arrest pending trial on October 6, 2008.[7]

She was arrested, and promptly released, in December 2008 in Hebron.[8]

In May 2009, Weiss was arrested with respect to assaulting a police officer and obstruction of an investigation. She was sentenced to two days under house arrest.

Daniella Weiss rejects 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 Shomron.[9] She has 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.[10]

In a 2023 interview with the New Yorker, Weiss said that Arabs "lost their right to vote for the Knesset. They will never get this right", and when asked how she felt about the deaths of Palestinian children, replied that "[m]y children are prior to the children of the enemy, period." Weiss made the statement of what drives the Israeli push to settle Jewish land: ″In Israel, there’s a lot of support for settlements, and this is why there have been right-wing governments for so many years. The world, especially the United States, thinks there is an option for a Palestinian state, and, if we continue to build communities, then we block the option for a Palestinian state. We want to close the option for a Palestinian state, and the world wants to leave the option open. It’s a very simple thing to understand.″[3]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.timesofisrael.com/rivlin-too-minor-to-assassinate-says-far-right-activist/amp/ Times of Israel - Rivlin too minor to assassinate, says far right activist
  2. ↑ "Rivlin too minor to assassinate, says far-right activist". The Times of Israel. 9 August 2015.
  3. 1 2 Chotiner, Isaac (November 11, 2023). "The Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers". The New Yorker.
  4. ↑ "בשבע 269: יוצאת אל הגבעות".
  5. ↑ Kedumim.org Archived October 1, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ "D 3203/05 State of Israel vs. Daniela Weiss". court.gov.il. June 12, 2007.
  7. ↑ "Daniella Weiss released from house arrest pending trial". Jerusalem Post. Jerusalem Post. October 6, 2008. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  8. ↑ Tovah Lazaroff; Shelley Paz (December 8, 2008). "Sneh to Barak: Jail Daniella Weiss". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved October 26, 2014.
  9. ↑ James Hider (October 15, 2009). "West Bank settlers use 'price tag' tactic to punish Palestinians". The Times.(subscription required)
  10. ↑ 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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