JERUSALEM – Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian man who tried to stab them in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the military said. “An assailant, armed with a knife, exited his vehicle and charged at the soldiers guarding the junction. Forces responded to the threat and shot the attacker, resulting in his death,” the…
JERUSALEM — An Israeli woman in her 20s was taken to the hospital in serious condition following a stabbing attack at a bus stop near Ariel in the West Bank. The two assailants were shot and killed by Israeli security forces who responded to the attack on Thursday morning, the Israel Defense Forces spokesman said….
JERUSALEM — The Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel said religious law obligates one to kill a terrorist brandishing a knife who is trying to stab someone. “If a terrorist is coming with a knife, it’s a mitzvah to kill him,” Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef declared in his weekly Torah lesson on Saturday night, which was first…
JERUSALEM — Two Arab-Israeli teenage girls stabbed a security guard near the Ramle central bus station, police said. Initial news reports called the attack nationally motivated. The teens reportedly said during questioning that they carried out the attack as “revenge for the situation in the Al-Aqsa Mosque.” The girls, 13, reportedly pulled kitchen knives out…
JERUSALEM — One of the two Israeli Border Police officers seriously injured in an attack by three Palestinian assailants in Jerusalem has died, police said. Hadar Cohen, 19, of Or Yehuda in central Israel, died hours after she was critically wounded Wednesday near the Old City, outside the Damascus Gate. She had recently joined the…
JERUSALEM – Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian who tried to stab them in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the military said, the latest in a months-long wave of Palestinian attacks that shows little sign of abating. The Palestinian had infiltrated a security fence near the Israeli settlement Salit, the military said. When soldiers…
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian Authority police officer opened fire on Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, wounding three, before being shot dead by a soldier. One soldier was in serious condition following the attack Sunday near Beit El, another was in moderate to serious condition and another was lightly injured, according to reports. The Israeli…
Since Dafna Meir’s death at the hands of a teenage Palestinian stabber January 17, the 38-year-old Israeli has been memorialized as a mother and a wife, a foster parent and a nurse. But to a certain subset of Israeli women she will be remembered for a different reason: She was the leader of the “diaphragm…
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