Hebron

A Palestinian teen was killed and two others were wounded on Tuesday during clashes with IDF soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian media reported. The Palestinian Authority Health Ministry identified the victim as 17-year-old Moemen Yassin Jaber, who had been rushed to the hospital in critical condition…

A Palestinian protester and an Israeli soldier during a rally against Israel’s plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, Haris, near Nablus, West Bank, June 26, 2020From July 1, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has the power to bring to the Knesset a vote on whether to extend…

With just days to go until Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is allowed, per the coalition government agreement, to pursue the annexation of illegally occupied West Bank territory, debate swirls around what - if any - land will be formally annexed in the coming weeks and months.  Various annexation scenarios…

Is Chabad-Lubavitch, the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic outreach movement, returning to the political wars? Apparently so, in Israel at least. And its rabbis are doing so by promoting a "not one inch" approach to territorial concessions and identifying with the most fanatic elements of the settler population. And if past experience is…

MODIIN ILLIT, West Bank — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s July 1 target date to begin annexing large swaths of the West Bank is just around the corner, but residents of Israel’s most populous settlement don’t appear to be particularly preoccupied with the looming momentous occasion. During a visit last week…

Two more people were arrested early Monday on suspicion of attacking a Palestinian man and the Israel Defense Forces soldier who came to his aid in the West Bank city of Hebron last week, the Israel Police said Monday. The two were a man and a minor, police said. They…

The Israel Police on Sunday arrested two Israeli teenagers suspected of attacking a Palestinian man and the IDF soldier who rescued him in the West Bank city of Hebron, police said. The two suspects were part of a larger group of settler youths who were seen assaulting the Palestinian man…

Tzipi Hotovely (second from left holding flag) leading a settler demonstration calling for the annexation of the Palestinian West Bank last month. (Women in Green/YouTube)Israel’s next ambassador to the UK is a pro-settler activist who has promoted the movement to destroy Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Tzipi Hotovely once claimed that…

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Studying the history of Jewish settlement and state building in the Land of Israel clearly demonstrates that a pragmatic diplomatic strategy, one strongly motivated by an idealistic vision, but one also willing to carefully compromise and steadfastly proceed step by step, has been our country’s ‘winning’ diplomatic strategy. Ben Gurion’s…