An accused Jewish extremist with dual Israeli and American citizenship was released from an Israeli prison after being jailed without charges for five months. Mordechai Meyer, 18, of the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, was set free Monday after being under administrative detention since August for his suspected involvement in an arson attack more…
Israel’s minister of justice met last week with the mother of an Israeli-American teen held in isolation by Israeli security authorities amid a terrorism investigation, the teen’s attorney told the Forward. The highly unusual meeting with Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, a member of the right-wing Jewish Home party, was attended by Adi Kedar, a lawyer…
Israeli television aired video showing Jews at a wedding celebrating the murder of a Palestinian family — including an 18-month-old baby — in a West Bank terrorist firebombing. According to , the video, released Wednesday night on Channel 10 and filmed at a Jerusalem wedding last week, features friends of the suspected assailants in the…
JERUSALEM — Naftali Bennett, leader of the right-wing Jewish Home Party, condemned Jewish extremists and affirmed his support for the Shin Bet security service in its investigation of the firebombing of a Palestinian home. The leader of the religious Zionist political party also condemned the Jewish terrorism manifested in the recent attacks on Palestinians, including…
JERUSALEM — Tear gas grenades were thrown into a Palestinian home on Tuesday in what Israeli police believe was an attack by Jewish militants angered by the detention of comrades suspected of killing a Palestinian toddler and his parents in July. No one was hurt in the incident overnight in the village of Beitillu in…
JERUSALEM — Right-wing activists and police clashed at the entrance to Jerusalem during a demonstration against the continued detention of Jewish youth for alleged involvement in the firebombing of a Palestinian home. The demonstration on Sunday night came a day after hundreds of protesters demonstrated in front of the home of Shin Bet chief Yoram…
Three Jews suspected of involvement in an arson attack that killed three members of a West Bank Palestinian family can be prevented from meeting with their attorneys, Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled. Salim Joubran, an Arab-Israeli justice, wrote in the decision Sunday that a meeting could disrupt the investigation of the July 31 firebombing in…
A former member of the and his wife were badly injured in a 20-bullet drive-by shooting in the West Bank. Gunmen in a passing car shot at the couple’s vehicle on Wednesday evening near the Avnei Hefetz settlement, the Times of Israel reported. Haaretz identified the victims as husband and wife, Shaul and Racheli Nir,…
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