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 Israel Cabinet Approves University in Settlement
The Israeli government voted overwhelmingly in favor of recognizing the Ariel University Center of Samaria as an accredited university on Sunday. The cabinet resolution is symbolic, since the controversial change to the status of the institution, which is located in the West Bank city of Ariel, must first be approved by the High Court of…
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Fast Forward Left-to-Die Palestinian’s Family Settles for $250K
The State of Israel will compensate the family of a Palestinian who was left to die by Israeli police officers four years ago, in a compromise agreement obtained by Haaretz on Thursday. The state will give 875,000 shekels, or about $250,000. in damages In 2008, Omar Abu Jariban, who had illegally entered Israel from Gaza,…
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Fast Forward Israel Foots Bill To Move Illegal Settlers
The Israeli government is footing the bill, worth hundreds of thousands of shekels, for moving caravans in the now-evacuated West Bank outpost of Migron. The caravans are owned and rented out by an organization called “Amana,” which supports settlements in the West Bank and other areas of Israel. The mobile structures at Migron are not…
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Opinion Occupation Corrupts Soul of Israel
It is tempting to impute retroactive intentionality to yesterday’s events. As Gershom Gorenberg felicitously puts it, we mistakenly assume “that if things turned out a certain way, someone planned it that way.” Looking back now, it may seem a foregone conclusion that Israel’s settlement policy in the West Bank (and in Golan, too) was from…
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Fast Forward Some Illegal Settlers Start To Move From Migron
Jewish families began evacuating the West Bank outpost of Migron. Families began moving out Sunday morning, as border police went door to door in the outpost handing out eviction notices. Some of the 50 families living on the hilltop reportedly left Saturday night. Israel’s Supreme Court ruled last week that the outpost must be evacuated…
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News One Beating Is Front Page, Another Goes Unnoticed
As Jamal Julani recovered in a hospital after being beaten unconscious in an August 17 attack that monopolized Israeli headlines for days, another Palestinian man was beaten unconscious. But this second attack flew under the radar of most Israelis. The first attack dominated not only the media, but also the political discussion, with figures throughout…
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Opinion All Eyes on Migron
Eight years after Israel promised America to start removing outposts and six years since the activist group Peace Now petitioned the courts to compel the government to evacuate the oldest outposts, it looks set to actually happen. Settlers have tried to save the outpost and the government has tried to give it a stay of…
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Fast Forward 4-Year-Old Boy Dies After Being Left in Car
A 4-year-old boy was found on Thursday afternoon dead in a ‘burning hot’ car in the ultra-Orthodox settlement Modi’in Illit after was apparently forgotten in the locked vehicle for several hours. Initial investigation indicates that the boy was collected Thursday morning from his home by his Talmud teacher, who usually drives neighboring children attending his…
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