JERUSALEM (JTA) — An 18-year-old woman is in serious condition after being stabbed by a Palestinian man in the northern Israeli city of Afula. The woman on Monday afternoon collapsed in front of a coffee house in the center of the city with stab wounds on her upper body after telling passersby that she had…
Dozens of Arab families who were planning to build homes in the Jewish city of Afula have lost their leases to the land after an Israeli judge said that they illegally coordinated their bids. Last November, hundreds of Jewish residents of Afula protested the prospect of Arab neighbors after Arab families won tenders to build…
AFULA, Isrsael – From her backyard deck in Yafia, an Arab village west of Nazareth, Iman Sharary, 53, pointed to a plot of land in the distance where her sons will build their homes. She would have preferred her children stay in Yafia, but with land at a premium in the village, she and her…
When an Israeli soldier was murdered on a bus last week, it didn’t just mark the continuation of a wave of Palestinian-perpetrated killings of Israelis. It moved the violence to a new setting. It’s now crossed the Green Line. Since the summer, a soldier was murdered in Hebron, a restaurant worker was murdered by a…
Parents of students who attend the public-religious Ohel Meir school in Afula in northern Israel are demanding that it be spiritually purified following a Muslim wedding that took place there. They are up in arms that the wedding was allowed to happen in the hall where the school’s Torah scrolls are kept, and are threatening…
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