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Breaking News Jerusalem Bus Terrorist May Be Among Those Wounded by Bombing
Jerusalem — Security has been ramped up throughout Jerusalem in the wake of the bus bombing on Monday that injured 21 people. “Extra police units and border police are patrolling public areas,” Israel Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told the Times of Israel. Rosenfeld cited bus stations and the light rail tram system in the city…
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News Jerusalem Recoils as Bus Bombing Strikes Mixed Neighborhood — Netanyahu Vows To ‘Settle Score’
A Jerusalem bus exploded on Monday evening at a major junction in the city, igniting another bus and injuring 21 people, two of them seriously, in a possible terror attack. Police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said that the blast was caused by an explosive device on the first bus, and that a police investigation was underway…
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Breaking News Bus Explosion Rocks Jerusalem — Benjamin Netanyahu Blames Terrorists
A bomb blew up a bus and set fire to another in Jerusalem on Monday, wounding 16 people in an attack that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu linked to a six-month-old wave of Palestinian street violence. There was no immediate claim of responsibility from any Palestinian factions for the blast. Israeli officials declined to assign…
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Opinion American Jewish Unity In Favor of Egalitarian Kotel Is a Fiction
It might be hard to imagine the hardline Israeli Haredi parties and the hardline feminist “Original Women of the Wall” group as occupying the same library, much less the same page. But that’s where they find themselves. It’s not just that both are hardline, and that both reject the compromise idea of an egalitarian Western…
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Culture What Ever Became of the ‘Children of Jerusalem’?
Between 1991 and 1996, seven Israeli and Palestinian children starred in a Canadian documentary series about life in Jerusalem. Though they grew up within miles of one another, they lived worlds apart, never to meet. A quarter-century later, I set out to find them. I learned about the obscure series, called “Children of Jerusalem,” from…
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Life Who Is To Blame for Collapse of Kotel Prayer Deal?
The Kotel prayer agreement appears to be going south — leaving us to ask how Israeli leaders from across the spectrum failed to deliver on an agreement that looked like a done deal. “The deal” of course, is about the Kotel, or Western Wall, and Robinson’s Arch — and who gets to pray where and how. These…
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Breaking News Time ‘Updates’ Article That Inaccurately Portrayed Palestinian Terrorist as Victim
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Time magazine updated an article criticized by Israel for depicting a Palestinian assailant who killed three Israelis, including an American-Israeli teacher, as a victim of Israeli security forces. Israel’s Government Press Office issued a statement on March 17 about the Oct. 15 article titled “The desperation driving young Palestinians to violence.” The…
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Breaking News 2,500-Year-Old Woman’s Seal Unearthed in Jerusalem
A First Temple-era stamp that is distinctive both for its age and the fact that it belonged to a woman, was recently discovered in excavations in Jerusalem. The 2,500-year-old personal seal, made of semi-precious stone and bearing the words in Hebrew “To Elihana bat Gael,” was uncovered at the City of David, the Israel Antiquities…
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