A mosque in a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank was vandalized and three cars set on fire. The words "Price tag" and "Gal Arye Yosef" was spray-painted on the wall of the mosque in the village of Dir Istiya, near Ariel, in the early Wednesday...
By Mati Wagner, JTA, YITZHAR, West Bank
• Published December 21, 2011
Charred tires and boulders pushed to the sides of the road leading to Yitzhar, a West Bank Jewish community near Nablus, were among the signs that residents had made an effort to prevent Israeli soldiers and police from entering the settlement. Patches...
By Jeffrey F. Barken, JointMedia News Service
• Published November 23, 2011
Kibbutz Dorot lies roughly 10 miles from the Gaza border, 4.5 miles from the college town of Sderot and 18 miles from the Israeli port city of Ashkelon. Strangely, the kibbutz appears to be protected from the sporadic volleys of rockets launched by terrorist...
Teens are invited to help support the IDF Lone Soldier program during a program from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 8 at the Jewish Community Center's Marilyn Fox Building in Chesterfield.Israel Defense Forces Lieutenant Colonel Tzvia Levy will speak...
JERUSALEM — Michal Naamani went to Jerusalem from her home in a town near Kfar Saba on Friday to hand out yellow ribbons to passersby and bumper stickers to motorists reading "Gilad is alive." A high school teacher, Naamani felt she wanted to do something...
CARMEI TZUR, West Bank - Yana Kisluk tosses her long ponytail over one shoulder and adjusts her M-16 over the other. The pretty 21-year-old, who wears diamond stud earrings and perfect eye makeup, looks like any other young Israeli doing her compulsory military...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 18, 2011
The so-called "Arab Spring," which has convulsed the Middle East and North Africa for the past several months, has been jolted by the carefully coordinated "demonstrations" against Israel on the 63rd anniversary of its independence.Palestinians have labeled...
By Uriel Heilman, JTA, TEL AVIV
• Published May 18, 2011
If a single phrase could capture the sentiment that motivated thousands of Arabs to try to cross Israel's borders on Sunday to "retake Palestine" from the Jews, it would be this: Yes, we can. That can-do attitude had toppled regimes in Egypt and Tunisia,...
TEL AVIV — If a single phrase could capture the sentiment that motivated thousands of Arabs to try to cross Israel's borders on Sunday to "retake Palestine" from the Jews, it would be this: Yes, we can. That can-do attitude had toppled regimes in Egypt...
By Uriel Heilman and Marcy Oster, JTA
• Published May 15, 2011
JERUSALEM — In the wake of disturbances on Israel's borders that have resulted in as many as 14 deaths, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a national address that he has ordered his military to stop the infiltration and defend the country's sovereignty. ...
By Tom Tugend, JTA, LOS ANGELES
• Published May 11, 2011
For Ira Feinberg, what he calls the "pinnacle of my life's experiences" took place 63 years ago.Feinberg was a 17-year-old New Yorker when he joined the elite troops of the Palmach force fighting in Israel's War of Independence. "No other experience in...
JERUSALEM - The nephew of an Israeli government minister was killed and at least four men were injured during a visit to Joseph's Tomb near the West Bank city of Nablus.Ben-Joseph Livnat, 25, a father of four from Jerusalem and the nephew of Science and...
