Bill to replace ‘West Bank’ with ‘Judea and Samaria’ in documents goes to full House

By: Mitch Perry

Outlets: Florida Phoenix

Published: January 27, 2026

Words: 797

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 6 days ago

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Middle Eastern politics returned to the Florida Legislature Tuesday, amid claims that Jewish and Palestinian people are being “erased” at the forefront of the charged debate.

The discussion centered around a bipartisan proposal to bar use of the term “West Bank” in Florida public schools and charter schools and replace that phrase with “Judea and Samaria,” the biblical names for the region that are widely used in Israel and the administrative name used by that …

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