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Breaking News 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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Breaking News 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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Breaking News 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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Breaking News 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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Breaking News 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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Breaking News Teenage Girl Stabs Israeli in Jerusalem’s Old City
An 18-year-old Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli near a contested shrine in Jerusalem on Wednesday and was then shot and wounded by the injured man, Israeli police said, the third knife attack in the city in less than a week. Police said the attacker struck in an alleyway near the Western Wall, a Jewish prayer…
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Breaking News 50,000 Receive Priestly Blessing at the Kotel
Thousands of people gathered at Jerusalem’s Western Wall amid heavy security for the holiday Priestly Blessing. The Western Wall Heritage Foundation estimated Wednesday morning’s crowd at 50,000, while media reports put the number in attendance at between 50,000 and 150,000. The mass blessing, called Birkat Kohanim in Hebrew, is held on an intermediate day during…
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Breaking News Chief Rabbi Claims Jerusalem ‘Disgusted’ by Gays
Only months after an Israeli teen was murdered by an ultra-Orthodox man during the Jerusalem Gay Pride parade, the city’s chief rabbi Shlomo Amar has lashed out at the LGBT community, saying “I believe that this phenomenon will wane and disappear, because most of the public is disgusted by it and detest it.” Amar, who…
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