State of Judea
The State of Judea is a proposed halachic state in the West Bank put forward by some members of the Israeli Israeli settlement movement. After the Palestine Liberation Organization declared the existence of the State of Palestine in 1988, some settler activists feared that international pressure would lead Israel to withdraw from the West Bank and sought to lay the groundwork for an Orthodox Jewish state in the West Bank if this came to pass. The establishment of this state was announced in a Jerusalem hotel on December 27, 1988. Veteran Kahanist Michael Ben-Horin was declared president of the State of Judea. In January 1989, several hundred activists met and announced their intention to create such a state if Israel withdrew.
The idea was revived following the Israeli [disengagement from Gaza], which resulted in the forcible withdrawal of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip by the Israel Defense Forces in 2005. In 2007, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo suggested the establishment of a new state in the West Bank in the event of Israeli withdrawal.