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 — Israel Police reportedly mishandled a tip about the gunman who killed two Israelis in an attack on a Tel Aviv bar and later a cab driver. On Wednesday, two women told Israel Radio that they tried to contact a police call center hours after the Jan. 1 attack, when video images of the…
JERUSALEM — The husband of Dafna Meir, the mother of six who was killed in her home while fighting off a Palestinian assailant, called on Jews and Palestinians to “look for what unites us.” Natan Meir spoke Thursday with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, who paid a condolence visit to the family home in the West…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the grieving husband and six kids of slain settler mom of Dafna Meir — and vowed to destroy the family home of her alleged teen killer and to take away their work permits, Israeli media reported Tuesday. He also railed against Israel’s critics, particularly in the European Union, and…
BERLIN – Facebook began a Europe-wide campaign on Monday to thwart extremist posts on social media, after German politicians in particular raised concerns about a rise in xenophobic comments linked to an influx of refugees. The “Initiative for Civil Courage Online” was announced in Berlin and the company is pledging over a million dollars to…
PARIS — Listing terrorist attacks in Israel along with other attacks by the Islamic State, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said they showed “we are in a world war.” Valls made the statement on Monday at a Paris hotel where he spoke before approximately 350 listeners, mostly from the Jewish community, during an event organized…
PARIS — Seventy percent of French citizens said it would be giving in to terrorists if Jews were forced to remove their yarmulkes for security reasons, according to a survey. The survey commissioned by the Paris Match weekly news magazine and published Friday was conducted Jan. 14-15 following one community leader’s call to Jews in…
JERUSALEM — The Arab-Israeli man who police ssy shot and killed three in Tel Aviv was buried in his northern Israel hometown. Nashat Melhem was buried late Tuesday night in Arara in the presence of about 80 mourners. His father, Mohammed, who is under house arrest for abetting his son, did not attend the funeral….
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