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Fast Forward Jewish Man Stabbed With Screwdriver in Jerusalem
A Jewish man was stabbed with a screwdriver in central Jerusalem. The victim, 32, was treated on the scene for stab wounds to his upper body before being taken to Shaarey Zedek Medical Center in the city. The assailant reportedly was a Palestinian youth who was seen fleeing toward the Damascus Gate on the northwest…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Light Rail Draws Fine Line Through Bitterly Divided Holy City
If there has been a constant target during weeks of unrest in Jerusalem, it is the divided city’s Light Rail, a sleek tram that snakes through downtown, past the ancient walls of the Old City, symbolically uniting Jewish West and Arab East. Launched in 2011 after years of delays and budget overruns, the French-Israeli project…
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News How Jerusalem Light Rail, Once Sign of Progress, Became Prime Terror Target
(JTA) — It’s 3 p.m. on a Thursday and the Jerusalem light rail is packed with secular and religious, Jew and Arab, as it heads east from the city’s Central Bus Station. From there it passes some of the city’s most crowded venues, stopping at the Mahane Yehuda open market and coursing down Jaffa Street until…
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News Sex, Molotov Cocktails and a Roof That Doesn’t Leak in Jerusalem’s Restive Mixed Neighborhood
I was sitting at my desk, trying to write. But all I could focus on were the sounds outside my apartment: a helicopter’s propeller whirred against a steady percussion of Molotov cocktails, fireworks and stun grenades, all punctuated by the occasional wail of sirens. I was on deadline for an article about the closure of…
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Fast Forward Right-Wingers Blocked From Temple Mount March
Police prevented dozens of protesting right-wing activists from ascending to the Temple Mount. The activists on Thursday night were protesting the security situation in Jerusalem and the shooting last week of Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick. The demonstrators marched from the Begin Center in Jerusalem, the site of the assassination attempt on Glick, to the…
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Fast Forward Second Israeli Dies in Jerusalem Car-Ram Terror Attack
An Israeli man injured in an attack in which a Palestinian rammed his car into pedestrians died of his injuries on Friday, a hospital official said, taking to three the death toll in the incident, including the assailant shot dead at the scene. The militant Islamist group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack on Wednesday…
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Fast Forward Palestinan East Jerusalem Seethes, But Will Uprising Last?
(Reuters) — For months, the streets of mainly Arab East Jerusalem, in the shadow of the Old City but where tourists seldom venture, have been ablaze, with daily clashes between armed Israeli police and Palestinians throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails. The roots of the unrest are many: from the killing in July of a Palestinian…
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Fast Forward 1 Killed in Jerusalem Car-Ram Terror Attack
A Palestinian rammed his car into pedestrians in central Jerusalem on Wednesday in the second attack of its kind in two weeks, killing one person and fueling concerns of another Palestinian uprising. The driver, who was shot dead by police, was identified by an Israeli security official as Ibrahim Akari from East Jerusalem, and the…
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