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Ynetnews reports: “It’s our only solace, and the happy thing is that none of our own were scratched in the raid. I had no doubt that they’d reach him.” So said Dudu Bakal, whose son Alon Bakal was murdered by

Ynetnews reports: An attempted stabbing attack was foiled early Saturday morning when IDF soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians who tried to attack them with knives at the Beqaot checkpoint in the northern West Bank. The two soldiers, part of

TEL AVIV – One week after carrying out a deadly shooting attack at a Tel Aviv pub, the suspected gunmen, Nashat Melhem, was killed after raising a weapon to police forces in his hometown in northern Israel on Friday.

Ynetnews reports: Police deployed in large numbers in Tel Aviv and its environs on Friday following a security assessment, exactly one week after a terrorist murdered three people in the heart of the city. Police stopped cars and requested drivers’ IDs.

HEBRON – The morning Gennady Kaufman, a gardener at the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs in the heart of Hebron, was stabbed, I was showing an Australian journalist around the Jewish part of Hebron – the 3 percent of

In the wake of Friday’s tragic shooting in Tel Aviv’s bustling city center – taking two lives and wounding ten – Israelis scramble for answers to an evolving and unpredictable security threat.

TEL AVIV – Salah al-Arouri, a top Hamas leader, reportedly visited other Hamas operatives in NATO member Turkey this week.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been instructing high level ministers to take steps to thwart the potential collapse of the Palestinian Authority. In a closed security cabinet meeting on Monday, the prime minister was reported to have said,

Israeli security forces on Tuesday shot and killed a Palestinian terrorist who stabbed an Israeli soldier in the West Bank, the Israeli military said, as a surge in violence entered its fourth month. The attack occurred at Gush Etzion Junction,

Israel has requested of the Palestinian Authority (PA) that it share any intelligence that could lead to the capture of the suspect in a fatal shooting attack in Tel Aviv on Friday, The Times of Israel learned Monday. The appeal

An unidentified gunman shot and moderately wounded a female IDF soldier at the Cave of the Patriarchs near the West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday. There were unconfirmed suspicions that the fire was carried out by a sniper from

LOD (ISRAEL) (AFP) – A court charged two Israelis on Sunday over a firebomb attack last year that led to the deaths of a Palestinian couple and their toddler, the Israeli judiciary said. Amiram Ben Oliel, 21, from the northern settlement

Israel cannot allow pockets of the country to have lax gun law enforcement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday evening, visiting the site of Friday’s shooting on Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Street.

Two soldiers were wounded on Sunday afternoon in a stabbing attack at Hawara checkpoint in the West Bank, hours after another soldier as lightly wounded in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem. Givati Brigade soldiers were in the middle of a

Israel’s Welfare Minister says Palestinians “should go to Jordan, they don’t want peace and they manipulate our weakness,” Israeli website Arutz 7 reported. On Saturday, Chaim Katz (Likud) made the following comments about the two state solution: “The land of Israel

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli border police shot dead a Palestinian woman who tried to ram them with her car in the West Bank on Friday, the police said, as a 12-week surge in street violence showed no sign of abating.

Palestinian security forces say they arrested two suspected Islamic radicals in the burning of a Christmas tree in the northern West Bank.

Two Israeli security guards were wounded in a stabbing attack at an industrial area near the settlement of Ariel, while a soldier was lightly wounded in a vehicular terror attack near Qalandiya on Thursday. In Ariel, the attacker, Muhammad Zahran,

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israel’s ambassador to the United States used the embassy’s annual holiday gift to make a political point this year, sending items made in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights to counter a divestiture movement aimed at

JERUSALEM – Israel’s Shin Bet security service announced Wednesday it had arrested members of two large Hamas terrorist cells in the West Bank planning mass casualty suicide bombings and other attacks inside Israel.

TEL AVIV – A Jewish math teacher at an Israeli university opened a class for the campus’ Arab cleaners to learn basic math. Shai Gol, who in addition to teaching is also completing his PhD at Bar Ilan University, decided

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli police say a Palestinian was shot and wounded after attempting to ram his car into troops at a West Bank checkpoint. The man was then arrested. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri says the assailant sped

Near the church in Bethlehem’s Manger Square, built over the site where Christians believe Jesus was born, tour guides pace back and forth, waiting in vain for tourist buses that fail to show. Hisham Khamis, a guide for 10 years,

NABLUS (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) (AFP) – A Palestinian ran toward Israeli security forces brandishing a knife in the northern West Bank Thursday before being shot dead, the Israeli army said, the latest in more than two months of attacks. “During routine security

Australians are known for their blunt, straightforward views. The Palestinian Authority (PA) can now confirm that piece of conventional wisdom after a visit by Aussie politicians to the West Bank ended in name-calling and abuse from PA representatives who called the bi-lateral exchange

Israeli security forces shot dead two Palestinians who tried to ram them with their cars during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the Israeli army and police and Palestinian medical sources said. Soldiers shot and killed

Kila is a special dog. During her years of service in the IDF’s special forces canine unit Oketz, she participated in many daring rescue missions. But even after being released from the military, she still does good work. These days,

A new profile of US Secretary of State John Kerry in The New Yorker casts light on the stormy relationship between the US and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who have often clashed publicly over the Iran nuclear deal and the

TEL AVIV – Israeli security forces here arrested the alleged perpetrator of a vehicular ramming attack injuring four Israeli soldiers in the West Bank yesterday. Significantly, the alleged terrorist attacker confessed to being motivated to carry out his jihad in part

A Palestinian motorist attempted to ram his vehicle into IDF soldiers conducting security checks at the Hilhul Junction near Hebron on Friday. The assailant was shot and killed at the scene. No Israelis were wounded in the attempted attack. Shortly

Israeli forces have arrested an alleged member of the militant terror group Hamas on suspicion of running over four Israeli soldiers, leaving one in serious condition, the army said on Friday. “Overnight, in a joint operation… forces arrested the attacker

TEL AVIV – A new video making the rounds on Facebook features a little Palestinian girl holding a large knife and demonstrating how to stab Israelis, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported. The video, which originally appeared on the Facebook page

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Two Israelis were stabbed in Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, with one of them seriously wounded, and the Palestinian attacker was shot dead, the Israeli police and army said. An initial statement from the military said

TEL AVIV – A Christmas tree erected on the campus of a West Bank university is decorated with pictures of Palestinian terrorists in lieu of traditional ornaments.

TEL AVIV – An article in Foreign Policy magazine states that 40 percent of women in the West Bank have had abortions even though the Palestinian leadership has outlawed it.

An angered Israel continues to mull its response to the European Union’s controversial decision to label Jewish products from Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights. After Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu suspended contact with the EU in regard to the Israel-Palestinian conflict over