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Breaking News 2 Palestinians Shot Dead in West Bank
Israeli security forces shot dead two Palestinian assailants in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, police and the army said, as a month-long spate of stabbing attacks showed no signs of abating. The latest assaults, like other recent stabbings, took place in Hebron, a city in the West Bank, signaling that violence was shifting to…
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Breaking News West Bank Town Names Street After East Jerusalem Killer
The hometown of a Palestinian who stabbed and murdered two Israelis in Jerusalem is naming a street in his honor. The municipality of Surda-Abu Qash in the northern West Bank announced it will name a street for Muhannad Halabi, Palestinian Media Watch reported, citing an article by Donia Al-Watan, a Palestinian news agency. Halabi, a…
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Opinion Does Gleaming Palestinian City on Hill Offer Hope Amid Violence?
A gleaming bus stop greets visitors on the main road to the new Palestinian city of Rawabi in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Construction equipment is busy carving blocks out of the hillsides. A sign directs traffic to the police station in one direction and to the showroom filled with scale models in another. A giant…
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Breaking News Rabbi Helping Palestinian Olive Harvest Attacked by Extremist
Israeli police said they were searching for a Jew accused of assaulting a leader of the Rabbis for Human Rights organization near Nablus. The man, who The Jerusalem Post reported was described as a right-wing Jewish Israeli activist, on Friday allegedly lunged while holding a knife at Rabbi Arik Ascherman, who was not injured. Ascherman…
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Breaking News West Bank Settler Killed in Accident After Car Pelted With Rocks
A Jewish-Israeli man who exited his car near Hebron after Palestinians throwing rocks damaged the vehicle was hit by a truck and killed. The man, who was reported to be in his 50s and a resident of the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, was driving past the Palestinian village of Al Fawar, near Hebron,…
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Breaking News Palestinian Fake Journalist Killed After Stabbing Israeli Soldier
A Palestinian posing as a journalist wounded an Israeli soldier with a knife before being shot dead, the Israeli military said. The attack took place near Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied territory. Reuters television footage showed the Palestinian surrounded by Israeli troops after the attack, rolling on the ground in a florescent…
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Breaking News Palestinians Torch Joseph’s Tomb in West Bank ‘Day of Rage’
Palestinians set fire to a Jewish shrine in the West Bank on Friday as the Islamist group Hamas called for a day of rage against Israel, with tensions still running high after two weeks of violence. Israel’s military said about 100 people converged on the tomb of the biblical patriarch Joseph, which is located in…
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Life Keeping Calm and Carrying On in Efrat
The first place it shows is the skin. I mean, you can pretend you’re not stressed, be totally convinced you’re not stressed, but your skin is always going to give you away. “Traitor,” I say to the mirror, applying ointment to the bright red spot on the tip of my nose. “Wuss,” I say to…
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