This is the Forward’s coverage of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, a point of contention in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Fast Forward Jewish Settler Stabbed and Shot Dead by Palestinian at West Bank Bus Stop
A Palestinian man stabbed and shot dead an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Israeli ambulance service and police said. It was the first time an Israeli has been killed by a Palestinian in the West Bank since 2011. Israeli media said the attacker was standing at a bus stop used…
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Fast Forward Tzipi Livni Vows Crackdown on Anti-Arab ‘Price Tag’ Jewish Settlers
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has met twice in recent weeks with prominent settler leaders to discuss “price-tag” attacks carried out by extremist settlers against Palestinians and their property in the West Bank, along with other targets such as Israel Defense Forces bases and churches. At the meetings, Livni emphasized her intention to take stern measures…
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Fast Forward Stone-Thrower Who Killed Father and Toddler Gets Two Life Sentences
A Palestinian man convicted of the murder of an Israeli man and his infant son in a rock-throwing incident was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences and another 58-year sentence. Waal al-Araja, a Palestinian security officer, was sentenced Tuesday by the Ofer Military Court for the killing of dual Israeli-American citizen Asher Palmer and his…
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Fast Forward U. Cal-Berkeley Senate Passes Bill Calling for Divestment From Settlements
A student senate at the University of California, Berkeley narrowly passed a measure calling on the school to divest from three companies with dealings in the West Bank. Following 10 hours of sometimes heated debate, the Associated Students of the University of California senate early Wednesday morning passed the resolution in an 11-9 vote, the…
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Fast Forward Egalitarian Kotel Prayer Plan Just Start of Religious Pluralism Debate in Israel
Natan Sharansky’s proposal last week to expand the space for non-Orthodox prayer at the Western Wall could be historic. But for most Israelis, changes at the Western Wall are of only trivial interest. Far more pressing are state restrictions on marriage and conversion, Sabbath bans on public transit, and haredi Orthodox exemptions from Israel’s mandatory…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Clash With Soldiers in Protest Over Settler Accused of Beating
Scores of Palestinian youths clashed with Israeli soldiers for a second day in the occupied West Bank on Friday, after locals accused Jewish settlers of beating a man with steel pipes. Youths heaved rocks at Israeli army jeeps as smoke from blazing tyres mixed with tear gas a few hundred metres from the red-rooftopped villas…
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Fast Forward American Settler Gets Life for Killing Palestinians
A West Bank settler dubbed “The Jewish Terrorist” by the Israeli media was sentenced on Tuesday to life imprisonment for the murder of two Palestinians in 1997. Yaakov “Jack” Tytell, a U.S. immigrant, confessed to the killings, which he committed while visiting as a tourist. He was convicted in January of killing a Palestinian taxi…
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Fast Forward West Bank Settlements Matched Tel Aviv for Home Building, Despite Smaller Population Rise
Housing construction in the West Bank matched the number of units built in Tel Aviv between 1996 and 2008 while its population grew at just half the rate of Tel Aviv’s, according to a study carried out for the Israeli Institute for Economic Planning. The authors of the report said the figures demonstrated that the…
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