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Breaking News Ezra Schwartz Was Going to Illegal West Bank Outpost When Murdered
An American student killed in a terror attack last month was on his way to do community service at an illegal West Bank outpost, Haaretz has found, adding to the mounting questions about what precautions are taken by study abroad programs in Israel when their participants travel to particularly dangerous areas. An investigation by Haaretz…
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News Will Ezra Schwartz Murder Cause Schools To Rethink Security in Israel?
As violence rises in Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, parents of American Jewish students studying there say that they are relying on the security protocols of the programs to which they have entrusted their children. It is not yet clear, however, whether such protocols were followed by Yeshivat Ashreinu, the school the American teenager…
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Breaking News 2 Palestinians Killed in West Bank
Israeli security forces shot dead two knife-wielding Palestinian assailants on Tuesday in the occupied West Bank, Israeli authorities said, as a wave of Palestinian stabbings, car rammings and shootings entered its third month. Nineteen Israelis and a U.S. citizen have been killed since Oct. 1. Israeli forces have killed 97 Palestinians, of whom 58 were…
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News West Bank Wineries to Europe: ‘Label This!’
Sitting in the warehouse of his winery in the Israeli- occupied West Bank, Amichai Lourie picked up a bottle of 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon and pointed to a label where the name of his settlement, “Shiloh,” was scrawled in white ink. The European Union has said that it will label goods from exclusively Jewish West Bank…
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Breaking News Teenage Palestinian Girl Run Down After Trying To Stab Settlers
Three Palestinians carrying out knife attacks on Israelis were killed in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Israeli police and the military said, as an eight-week-old wave of violence showed no signs of dying down. A surge in street violence since Oct. 1 has challenged Israel’s security system and alarmed the United States, whose Secretary…
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Breaking News Murder of Israeli Couple in West Bank Ambush Was Botched Kidnap Try
The four Palestinian terrorists who shot and killed the Israeli couple Eitam and Naama Henkin in a West Bank ambush originally planned to kidnap them. New information revealed in indictments served to the four attackers on Thursday describe the violent Oct. 1 incident on the Jewish settlers in detail, the Times of Israel reported. Yahia…
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News American Terror Victim Was Suburban Boston Teen Studying for Year in Israel
The American killed in a West Bank shooting was a Massachusetts teenager who was studying for a year at an Israeli yeshiva. Ezra Schwartz, 18, of the Boston suburb of Sharon, was reportedly returning from visiting a memorial to the three young people kidnapped and killed in 2014 when he was ambushed near the settlement…
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Breaking News Israel Pays $1.3M To Rebuild Illegal Settlement Synagogue
A synagogue in a West Bank settlement due for demolition will be rebuilt on a nearby site at government expense. Under an agreement reached late Monday between the government and Givat Zeev, the Ayelet HaShachar synagogue will be demolished and a new synagogue, as well as a sports facility, will be built legally in a…
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