WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization gained a legal victory at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday as the justices refused to consider reinstating a $655.5 million jury award won against them by 11 American families over militant attacks in Israel. The court declined to hear the families’ appeal of a…
JERUSALEM (JTA) – The Israeli civilian stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist in the Old City of Jerusalem died of his wounds. He was named as Adiel Kolman, a 32-year-old father of four from the West Bank settlement of Kochav Hashachar. While Kolman was a civilian security guard by profession, he was not armed and not…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A civilian Israeli security guard was stabbed and seriously injured in a terror attack in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The victim, reported to be in his 30s, was stabbed several times in his upper body and is in critical condition in Shaare Tzedek hospital in Jerusalem. He…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Washington Post says it has debunked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims that the Palestinian Authority pays $350 million a year to Palestinian terrorists and their families. The amount could be up to two-thirds smaller, according to the Post in its Fact Checker feature. Netanyahu used the $350 million figure a…
A Palestinian terrorist died in an “accidental explosion” in Gaza, a spokesman for the Hamas-run Ministry of Health said Saturday. Ibrahim Frahat, a member of the Saraya al-Quds militia of the terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, died while “preparing for battle,” the militia said in a statement. Israeli Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordecai, who commands the…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Israeli soldiers and a border police officer were injured in a suspected car-ramming attack in the northern city of Acre. The driver of an SUV late on Sunday morning hit a Border Police officer near the city’s central market, and then hit two Israeli soldiers near the city’s train station. The…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The surviving children and other family members of the five members of a West Bank family stabbed to death in a terrorist attack have sued the killers and the Palestinian Authority. The three surviving children of Udi Fogel, 36, and Ruth Fogel, 35, and several other family members, including the grandparents who…
(JTA) — A federal appeals court has thrown out a verdict that found the Jordan-based Arab Bank guilty of helping finance the terrorist activity of Hamas, but the plaintiffs in the case will still receive compensation. On Friday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York determined that the federal jury that arrived at the…
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