(Reuters) — The body of an abducted Palestinian youth was found in Jerusalem on Wednesday, raising suspicions he had been killed by Israelis avenging the deaths of three abducted Jewish teens. News of the discovery of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khudair, who was last seen being bundled into a van earlier in the day, triggered clashes…
Some 60,000 Israelis have downloaded a free app designed to assist in the event of an abduction. Using the free United Hatzalah SOS smartphone app, subscribers can inform the emergency organization that they need assistance and provide their exact location via GPS technology. The app, developed by the Israeli start-up NowForce, requires one swipe of…
Funeral ceremony for the three Israeli teenagers / Getty Images When the city of Modi’in was built in 1993, I don’t think the planners envisioned the scene that took place here today. Tens of thousands of Israelis — nearly the equivalent of Modi’in’s entire population — descended on the modest cemetery at the outskirts of…
The appeal for help – “They’ve kidnapped me” – came in a whisper on a furtive cell-phone call that one of three abducted Israeli teenagers made to police from the car that had picked them up on a road in the occupied West Bank. Within seconds, the muffled sound of what could have been gunfire…
Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli tweeted out her condolences to the families of the three Israeli teenagers, found dead yesterday. 3 good souls. murdered brutally by Hammas. #stopterror May they r.i.p http://t.co/Db6yN4ivO1 — Bar Refaeli (@BarRefaeli) July 1, 2014 Refaeli also posted a picture of three memorial candles to her Instagram feed with the same caption….
The Israeli military can raze the home of a Palestinian man indicted for the Passover eve murder of police officer Baruch Mizrahi, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled. The family of Ziad Awad on Tuesday morning was given 12 hours to remove their possessions from the residence before the demolition order takes effect. The apartment at the…
Several hundred people waving Israeli flags and expressing grief and solidarity held a vigil in New York on Monday after the bodies of three missing Israeli teenagers were found in the occupied West Bank. The bodies of the teens, who attended a religious school in a Jewish settlement, were found in a field near Hebron,…
The three kidnapped teens who were found murdered near Hebron will be buried side-by-side. Separate funerals are set for Tuesday afternoon for Gilad Shaar, Naftali Frenkel and Eyal Yifrach in each of the teens’ home communities, after which they will be buried in the Modiin cemetery in central Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will speak…
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