Best guardians of Judea/Samaria

(JNS) — Following a tour on Wednesday of Jewish-owned agricultural sites in Samaria’s Binyamin region, Israeli Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter applauded farmers’ role in protecting state lands in Judea and Samaria.

“We came here to learn up close about the farms, which I view as the best guardians of Israeli state land in Area C,” the minister said, referring to one of the administrative zones established under the Oslo Accords in the 1990s.

Dichter continued: “There are no better guardians than hundreds of sheep, tended by an Israeli shepherd, of course. … All the government ministries are a...