High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Judea and Samaria Area (Hebrew: , Ezor Yehuda VeShomron, also an acronym " Yosh or " Shai; Arabic: , al-Yahudiyyah was-S marah) is the official Israeli term roughly corresponding to the territory usually known outside Israel as the West Bank and to the Israeli settlements there that are not governed as part of Jerusalem. Jordan occupied the territory and annexed it in 1950. The area was captured from Jordan by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. Many Palestinians object to the term "Judea and Samaria" as a rejection of their claim to the area. In left-wing Hebrew media, such as Haaretz, it is also referred to as "HaGada HaMa'aravit" ( "The West Bank") or "Hashetahim" ( , The Territories).