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Generation Zion founder Luke Moon speaks at the launch of the Shepherd Camera Project at the Ruach Ha\u2019aretz agricultural farm in Binyamin, Oct. 8, 2026. Photo by Josh Hasten.<\/p>\n
\u2018Fighting back against fake news\u2019<\/p>\n
Dror Granevic, proprietor of the Ruach Ha\u2019aretz farm, where he lives with his wife and two children, told JNS that he was grateful to be receiving a body camera. The farm, which recently moved from another location, is now home to a herd of 60 cows. Granevic said he wished he had been wearing a camera during an incident with local Bedouins last year.<\/p>\n
Granevic said that in mid-2025, Jewish hikers near his farm were surrounded on Shabbat by a group of local Bedouins who began attacking them. Granevic arrived at the scene to help when, he said, one of the Bedouins struck him over the head with a metal rod. He was briefly hospitalized but made a full recovery.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I had a camera on me, I could turn the footage over to police to show what happened. No arrests were made in that incident,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Granevic emphasized that, in his view, Jewish farmers in all potential areas of confrontation should wear the cameras to document violence against them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an organized campaign accusing \u2018settlers\u2019 of violence,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need to catch those who are actually carrying out violence while also fighting back against the fake news.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018Footage from our side\u2019<\/p>\n
Generation Zion founder Luke Moon, who attended the launch with 15 pro-Israel Christian activists participating in a Generation Zion educational tour of Israel, conceived the initiative and donated the cameras.<\/p>\n
Moon told JNS that the idea came after he noticed what he described as a recurring imbalance in footage emerging from confrontations in Judea and Samaria.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would see all the video from the Palestinian side, but not from our side,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Moon said he searched Telegram and other channels for footage from the Israeli side but could not find what he was looking for. That led him to a simple solution: putting body cameras on farmers and shepherds on the ground.<\/p>\n
\u201cI decided that I need to get body cameras on every shepherd boy out there, so when a CNN crew runs up on some 13-year-old kid, we got the footage of that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Moon said having cameras present changes people\u2019s behavior while providing a more complete picture of what takes place.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople behave differently when there\u2019s more cameras around,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He pointed to the widespread use of body cameras by U.S. police as an example, saying that the footage helped change the narrative surrounding allegations of police violence.<\/p>\n
His hope, he said, is ultimately to see less violence in Judea and Samaria, arguing that greater visibility can help achieve that.<\/p>\n
Moon said Generation Zion brought 30 cameras to Israel for the initiative and that he has another 70 in the United States that he plans to bring on a future trip.<\/p>\n
Eliana Passentin, international desk director for the Binyamin Regional Council, told Moon that she greatly appreciated his support and that of Generation Zion. She told JNS that the event was just the beginning of an effort to \u201cspread the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the beginning of a new world where everybody gets the true facts immediately before lies are spread,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Oct. 9, 2026 \/ JNS) The Binyamin Regional Council launched a new initiative this week known as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-641081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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