Jerusalem, 19 October, 2026 (TPS-IL) — Knesset candidate Fleur Hassan-Nahoum and her team were attacked Monday by Palestinians who surrounded their vehicle and threw stones at it as they left the village of Turmus Ayya in the Binyamin region of Judea and Samaria.
Hassan-Nahoum, former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem (2018-2023) and currently number 5 on Ofer Winter’s Amcha Yisrael party’s Knesset slate, is a seasoned politician from a political family (her father was first Mayor of Gibraltar and later the first Chief Minister of Gibraltar; her sister was elected to Gibraltar’s parliament) and, as such, not easily shaken. But this morning’s event came close.
“We were on a tour with the Regavim NGO, who basically were showing us some of the villages with these huge, massive mansions that the Palestinian Arabs are building for themselves in Judea and Samaria,” she told TPS-IL news agency.
“I went with a bunch of influencers to show the world that when they talk about repression and occupation, a lot of it is lies and propaganda. There are a lot of very wealthy villages, and they’re doing very well. So, that’s what we went to see,” she continued.
“We went into this village, Turmus-Ayya; we drove in just to take pictures. All of a sudden, we were surrounded by these vehicles telling us we had to leave, and we didn’t want any problems. They were blocking our car. We said, ‘Look, we will just leave.’ We turned around and they were ambushing us on the way out. These kids with boulders were throwing them at the car, and they actually managed to break the window of the car that I was in. So, we were attacked. Yeah, it was horrible.”
“Nobody got hurt, thank God. We’re all in shock, but nobody got hurt,” she said.
I am horrified by the attack on my dear friend @FleurHassanN and am relieved that she and everyone else in the car is okay.
The lawlessness in the West Bank harms Israelis and Palestinians alike. It must come to an end. https://t.co/kvz6uUTzWE
— Avi Mayer אבי מאיר (@AviMayer) October 19, 2026
Asked if the incident had an impact on her political views, Hassan-Nahoum told TPS-IL, “I’ve always been right-wing and always will be. I always believe in a Greater Israel and always will be. So, no, it just reinforces the views that the world has got a warped vision of what happens in Judea and Samaria.”
Her party has voluntary migration on its platform.
“From Gaza, yeah. Absolutely,” she confirmed.
Only from Gaza?
“Well, I’m not saying only. At the moment, that is the relevant thing. We have to just deal with that first.”
Do her party’s internal polls show them crossing the threshold percentage? Will she get in at fifth place?
“Yes, I am. Absolutely,” she said, pointing to tonight’s poll in Channel 13 that shows them getting through. “Our own internal polls have us at eight,” she insisted. “Some of our rival parties have us at eight. That’s why they’re worried. And so, we’re confident that we’re going to get through.”
Will Amcha Yisrael sit in a Netanyahu coalition government despite the PM’s relentless attacks on them?
“We’ve said we’re right-wing. We will sit with the right-wing bloc. We believe in right-wing policies, and we’re less obsessed with this ‘Bibi yes, Bibi no’ and more into the values of the right wing. And so, he’s the head of the largest bloc in the right wing, and that’s that.”
She spoke of the news from England: “The whole of Europe is looking very bad right now. I think that what’s interesting is that people don’t make the connection that Islamic fundamentalism is the same in Gaza, it’s the same in Judea and Samaria, and it’s the same in Paris and London. It’s the same toxic ideology that wants to kill everyone.”
