JERUSALEM -- A church in Jerusalem was vandalized with an anti-Christian slogan. "Death to Christians" was painted on the walls of a church in Jerusalem on Monday. The words "Price Tag" and bad language about Jesus also were written on the Baptist Narkis...
By Linda Gradstein, JTA
• Published February 16, 2012
BARTA'A, West Bank -- In these days of frozen peace negotiations, most Israelis and Palestinians have little contact. Palestinians need a special permit to enter Israel, and Israelis need army permission to enter the parts of the West Bank controlled...
JERUSALEM -- At least eight Palestinian schoolchildren on a field trip were killed when a truck collided with their bus on a rain-soaked road in the West Bank. Dozens of elementary school age children, who were headed from eastern Jerusalem for Ramallah,...
JERUSALEM -- Israel's Air Force struck what the military called two "terror activity sites" in the Gaza Strip. The attacks early Thursday morning were in response to four rockets fired on southern Israel Wednesday night, according to a statement from...
An Israeli doctor was acquitted of libeling the father of Muhammad al-Dura, the boy whose death during the second intifada galvanized the Palestinian uprising. The French Supreme Court acquitted Dr. Yehuda David on Wednesday of breaking doctor-patient...
JERUSALEM -- A Palestinian man in the 59th day of a hunger strike was denied release from an Israeli prison, where he is being held without charge. Khader Adnan has been held in an Israeli prison since his arrest by Israeli soldiers on December 17, 2011....
JERUSALEM -- Residents of Migron say they have reached an agreement with the government on relocating the illegal West Bank outpost. The residents reportedly have agreed to have the community relocated to government land on a nearby hill. In return, they...
JERUSALEM -- Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said in Iran that armed resistance is the only way to fight against Israel. The "gun is our only response to the Zionist regime," Haniyeh said Monday in Tehran, according to the semi-official Iranian Fars...
JERUSALEM -- Israel's Air Force attacked four targets in Gaza, in response to rocket fire from Gaza that injured an Israeli woman. The attacks early Monday morning struck three tunnels between Gaza and Israel as well as what the IDF said in a statement...
By Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 8, 2012
Yonatan "Johnny" Ariel, the executive director of Makom, the Israeli Engagement Network, spent a couple of days last week speaking with members of United Hebrew, Temple Israel, Shaare Emeth and B'nai Amoona. He came under the auspices of Focus Israel,...
JERUSALEM -- Graffiti attacks against non-Jewish targets have continued in Israel, this time at a Jewish-Arab bilingual school and a Christian monastery. "Death to Arabs" and "Kahane was right" was painted on the Hand in Hand Center for Jewish-Arab...
WASHINGTON -- An Israeli program that offers incentives to move to outlying areas does not include West Bank settlements. The Cabinet on Sunday approved a list of 550 areas in outlying or poor areas to be included in an incentive program to draw residents...
