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News The Jerusalem Street at the Epicenter of the Violence
Like so many places in this divided city, the street where several recent terrorist stabbings have taken place in Jerusalem’s Old City goes by two names. To Jews, it is HaGai Street, and to Palestinians, it’s Al Wad. In English, it’s the Valley. Over its 2,000-year existence, countless people have walked the street’s pale brown…
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Fast Forward Israel Erects East Jerusalem Roadblocks in Crackdown
Israel began setting up roadblocks in Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem and deploying soldiers across the country on Wednesday to stop a wave of Palestinian knife attacks. In the latest incident, a Palestinian stabbed and moderately wounded a 70-year-old woman outside Jerusalem’s central bus station, at the entrance to the city, before an officer shot…
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Fast Forward Where West and Jerusalem Meet, Uneasy Calm Reigns — for Now
In the narrow corners of Jerusalem, where Jewish neighborhoods abut Palestinian ones, apprehension ran deep on Wednesday as Israel authorized the police to block access from Arab areas after a two-week wave of violence. The hilly backstreets that twist around the eastern, predominantly Arab half of the city were quieter than normal, as were the…
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Fast Forward 13-Year-Old Israeli Boy Stabbed While Riding Bicycle — Palestinian Teen Killed
A 13-year-old Israeli boy riding his bike was critically injured in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem allegedly by 13- and 15-year-old Palestinian assailants. The teen and a second victim, in his early to mid-20s, are in serious condition following the Monday afternoon attack in the northern Jerusalem community of Pisgat Zeev, Israel Police reported. The…
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Fast Forward Women of the Wall Won’t Challenge Kotel Torah Rules Due to Unrest
The Women of the Wall said they would not attempt to smuggle a Torah scroll to the Kotel during this month’s Rosh Hodesh prayer service due to the current security situation. In a letter sent Sunday to Shmuel Rabinowitz, the rabbi of the Western Wall, Women of the Wall Chairwoman Anat Hoffman said the women…
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Fast Forward Israel Police Kill Palestinian in Jerusalem’s Old City
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…
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Fast Forward 5 More Palestinians Killed as Violence Rages — 12-Year-Old Boy Among Dead
Israeli security forces on Saturday shot dead two Palestinians aged 12 and 15 in protests along Gaza’s border fence, Palestinian medics said, and Israeli police said they killed three Palestinian assailants in separate violence in Jerusalem. Eleven days of bloodshed in which four Israelis and 19 Palestinians have been killed in Jerusalem, the Israeli-occupied West…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva Student Stabbed in Neck in Latest Jerusalem Attack
A yeshiva student is in serious condition after Palestinian man stabbed him in the neck in a terror attack in Jerusalem. The attacker, 19, of eastern Jerusalem, was subdued and arrested by police, and is being questioned, the Israel Police said in a statement. The attack took place on Wednesday afternoon at a light rail…
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