TEL AVIV — A Palestinian assailant wounded one Israeli soldier in an attempted car ramming and stabbing attack outside the West Bank settlement of Tekoa, located northeast of Hebron.
Raging over a decision by a UN body to declare Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs a part of endangered Palestinian heritage, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday recited Biblical verses meant to prove the millennia-old Jewish connection to the West Bank site.
As the Palestinians’ own behavior in Hebron shows, they have no qualms about unilateralism. Ironically, they have given President Trump a perfect opportunity to fulfill his promise.
Holocaust victims and Palestinians were both given moments of silence Tuesday at a United Nations meeting after a Cuban representative objected to a moment of silence for those killed in the Holocaust — amid continued claims that the U.N. has a deep-seated anti-Israel bias.
TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley called on the secretary-general of the UN and the UNESCO chief to oppose the Palestinian Authority’s efforts to inscribe Hebron’s old city and the Tomb of the Patriarchs on list of endangered sites under the “State of Palestine.”
TEL AVIV – Former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni slammed UNESCO for repeatedly passing anti-Israel resolutions and called on the cultural agency to reject an upcoming vote pushed by the Palestinians designating the city of Hebron and the Tomb of the Patriarchs – one of Judaism’s holiest sites – as endangered sites under the “State of Palestine.”
TEL AVIV – Israel’s mission to the UN is petitioning the organization’s cultural agency UNESCO to conduct a secret ballot for the vote on whether to list Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs, a Jewish holy site, as an endangered world heritage site under the “State of Palestine.”
TEL AVIV – Israel on Friday banned a UNESCO fact-finding mission from entering to the West Bank city of Hebron ahead of a Palestinian-led effort to have the Tomb of the Patriarchs added to the list of endangered world heritage sites under the “State of Palestine.”
Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Tipi Hotovely issued a warning Monday to countries participating in a United Nations effort to classify a Jewish holy site as “Palestinian” that they risked participating in “fake history” and aggravating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) is requesting from the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, whose annual meeting will take place on July 1 in Krakow, Poland, to register the Old City of Hebron—including its Cave of the Patriarchs—as a Palestinian World Heritage Site.
President Reuven Rivlin on Thursday declared that Jews will always live in the West Bank city of Hebron, including under any future peace deal with the Palestinians.
The convicted murderer of six Israelis in a 1980 terror attack was elected to head Hebron’s municipal council on Sunday, as West Bank Palestinians went to local elections.
A hoard of ancient Jewish antiquities was recovered by the Israel Police and the IDF near Hebron on Wednesday, during a raid on a home in the Palestinian town of Beit Ula.
Fatah, the ruling party of Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority, on Wednesday bested its political rival Hamas in West Bank student university elections for the second time this month.
TEL AVIV – The IDF shut down three illegal workshops reportedly manufacturing guns near the West Bank town of Hebron Wednesday morning, the army said.
Mazen Faqha, the senior Hamas terrorist who was assassinated outside his Gaza home over the weekend, had been engaged in planning a series of terrorist attacks against Israeli targets in the West Bank during the upcoming Jewish holiday season, a Palestinian security source close to Hamas’ military wing told Breitbart Jerusalem.
The Shin Bet security service arrested two Palestinian men suspected of planning to carry several attacks on behalf of Hamas, the agency announced on Sunday.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday reiterated his support for the pardoning of IDF soldier Elor Azaria. In a case that rocked the nation here, Azaria was sentenced by an Israeli military court two days ago to 18 months in jail
TEL AVIV – An Israeli military court in Jaffa on Tuesday sentenced IDF soldier Elor Azaria to 18 months in jail for a manslaughter conviction over the shooting death of Palestinian terrorist Abdel Fatah al-Sharif on March 24, 2015.
The Border Police arrested a 17-year-old female Palestinian who drew a knife and ran at an officer nearby the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron on Saturday afternoon, the Israel Police announced later that evening.
Two Israelis were lightly hurt Saturday when Palestinians hurled stones at their vehicles on the road near the Palestinian West Bank village of Husan, close to the Etzion Bloc settlements.
Much of the international news media is portraying the case of Elor Azaria, the so-called Hebron shooter, as a clear-cut episode in which an Israeli soldier killed a “neutralized” Palestinian terrorist in cold blood purportedly out of anti-Palestinian sentiment.
Contents: Israel polarized over conviction of soldier for manslaughter; Protesters clash with police to protest the verdict; Comparison to Pakistan murder of Salman Taseer
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday evening said he backs calls to pardon an IDF soldier convicted of manslaughter for shooting dead an incapacitated Palestinian assailant, and described the conclusion of the months-long trial as “a hard and painful day.
Some 400 protesters rioted and clashed with police outside the Kirya IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv on Wednesday both before and after Sgt. Elor Azaria was convicted of manslaughter after shooting dead a seriously wounded terrorist in Hebron. At least four of the protesters were arrested.
Last March, Sergeant Elor Azaria, a 19-year-old Israeli army medic deployed to the West Bank, shot and killed a Palestinian assailant as he lay wounded and motionless on the ground after attempting to stab an Israeli soldier.
Three Israeli soldiers were lightly injured Saturday morning during riots in the West Bank village of Bayt Umar.
Israeli forces raided the largest arms workshop in the West Bank, the military said Monday. The raid, which took place in Hebron’s Palestinian industrial area revealed an underground facility for arms and munitions.
More than 30,000 people spent their Friday and Saturday in Hebron this past weekend to celebrate “Shabbat Hebron,” the weekend in which observant Jews read the Biblical portion which tells of Abraham’s purchase of Cave of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs in Hebron.
Three Border Police officers were lightly injured Sunday afternoon in an apparent car-ramming attack in the West Bank.
An Israeli vehicle was fired upon in the southern West Bank on Saturday evening, close to the settlement of Karmei Tzur and not far from Hebron. There were no injuries or damage reported, the army said.
JAFFA, Israel – A large Palestinian family living in Jordan decided to celebrate a man who recently carried out a shooting attack in Jerusalem with a “wedding” attended by hundreds of guests to honor his “death as a martyr.”
Security forces launched a large-scale arms raid in Jenin overnight between Sunday and Monday, seizing large quantities of firearms and shutting down two gun production workshops in the West Bank city.
Israeli troops on Friday shot and wounded a Palestinian who the army said was attempting to stab Israelis at a bus stop in the occupied West Bank.
A Palestinian tried to stab an Israeli soldier near the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday before being shot dead, the army said, the latest death in a flare-up of violence.
TEL AVIV – Following five terror attacks in two days in Jerusalem and the West Bank, the IDF deployed an extra infantry battalion to the West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday evening in preparation for a continued surge of violence.
A newly released video shows the moments in which a Palestinian assailant attacked Israeli soldiers with a knife in Hebron Saturday morning, lightly wounding one of them before being shot and killed.
Border Police soldiers arrested an 18-year-old Palestinian man from Hebron Saturday, for allegedly planning to perpetrate a terrorist stabbing in the area of the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron’s old city. The suspect is the cousin of a terrorist who was shot and killed while perpetrating a stabbing attack about six months ago.
Border Police arrested an 18-year-old Palestinian at a checkpoint near the Cave of the Patriarch in Hebron after finding a knife on him Saturday afternoon.
TEL AVIV – The U.S. State Department strongly opposes an Israeli government decision to approve initial plans for the construction of 28 Jewish homes in the West Bank city of Hebron, the site of the oldest Jewish community in the world.