Saving lives in volatile lands: The IDF’s medical unit in Judea & Samaria – Already this year some 2,000 people—about half of them Palestinian—have been treated by the Israeli army. | The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com

The West Bank, also known by its biblical name Judea and Samaria, is one of the most contested territories in the world. But driving through its rolling hills—a landscape dotted with olive trees, ancient stones and, increasingly, the location of top-notch wineries—is a stark contrast to the violent images that have come to define this land, claimed by the Palestinians but which the Israeli military has controlled since capturing the area from Jordan in the 1967 war.