A French-Jewish university director who has been the subject of an anti-Semitic campaign of intimidation was assaulted outside his home near Paris. An unidentified individual attacked Samuel Mayol, the director of the Technical University Institution, or IUT, on the evening of Oct. 9 while Mayol was walking his dog in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis,…
Israeli paramilitary police shot dead a Palestinian at an entrance to Jerusalem’s walled Old City on Monday, saying he had tried to stab an officer on patrol during the worst spell of street violence for several years. A Palestinian passerby disputed the police account, saying he had seen police shout at the man, then shoot…
The New York Times walked back an article that questioned whether two Jewish temples ever existed on the site of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The article, written by Rick Gladstone, a Times foreign editor, originally published on Oct. 8, read: “The question, which many books and scholarly treatises have never definitively answered, is whether…
An Arab Israeli stabbed four people near a bus stop in northern Israel on Sunday, as security forces confronted a spate of attacks against Israelis, mainly by Palestinians, in the Jewish state and the West Bank. Four Israelis and 24 Palestinians, including eight children, have died in 12 days of bloodshed, fueled in part by…
Jeremiah Wright, President Barack Obama’s former pastor, called Israel an apartheid state and said “Jesus was a Palestinian” at a rally in Washington hosted by the Rev. Louis Farrakhan. At an hours-long event Saturday on the National Mall titled “Justice or Else,” Wright said that African-Americans, Native Americans and Palestinians have suffered under the “three-headed…
The deputy director of the Shin Bet security service was approved as head of the Israel Police. On Sunday, Israel’s Cabinet unanimously backed the appointment of Ronen Alsheich, 52, as inspector general. His name had been under censorship rules since his nomination last month due to his position with the Shin Bet. Alsheich, who was…
A group of Jewish girls allegedly attacked an Arab man working in Jerusalem with pepper spray. Three suspects were detained for questioning after the incident downtown on Sunday, the Jerusalem Police reported. Also Sunday, five Israeli Jews were ordered held by the Rishon LeZion Magistrate’s Court after being arrested on suspicion of beating an Arab…
A 13-year-old Palestinian boy was shot dead during clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank, the Palestinian Maan news agency reported. The clashes took place Sunday near Ramallah. Maan cited local medics in its report on the boy. Also Sunday in the West Bank, Israeli forces shot and injured at least 50 Palestinians, including…
Three Israeli civilians were injured in a stabbing attack at Kibbutz Gan Shmuel in northern Israel. Two of the victims — 19- and 14-year-old females — were moderately wounded in the attack on Sunday near Hadera. A 20-year-old man was lightly injured. The suspected assailant, identified by the Times of Israel as a young Arab…
In his last appearance before the United Nations Security Council, Israel’s Ambassador to the U.N. Ron Prosor called on the body and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to condemn the recent attacks against Israeli citizens. “In 72 hours alone, 11 terror attacks have taken place in cities across Israel, and the Security Council stands by in silence,”…
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for efforts to restore calm in Israel during telephone conversations with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Kerry over the weekend spoke with both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas about the current wave of violence throughout Israel, the State Department said in a statement….
