(JTA) — The California man who threatened in an online chatroom to kill Jews and commit a mass shooting at a synagogue was released on bail. Ross Anthony Farca, 23, of Concord, who was arrested on June 10, was freed on a $125,000 bond over the weekend, the Concord Police Department said in a statement…
(JTA) — Terrorist attacks against Israelis more than tripled in May, which was the deadliest month in almost two years. The increase to 449 incidents in May over April’s 126 incidents owes to the launching of hundreds of rockets last month from Gaza into Israel. The rockets killed four people and wounded eight out of…
(JTA) — A 50-year-old man was seriously injured along with a 16-year-old student who was moderately wounded in a Jerusalem stabbing attack that ended with the slaying of the Palestinian perpetrator. The incident, which occurred Friday morning in the Old City of Jerusalem, was filmed in its entirety in security cameras. The footage shows 19-year-old…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The mother of 4-year-old terror victim Adele Biton gave birth to a baby girl on the birthday of her late daughter. Adele was severely injured in a Palestinian rock attack in the West Bank in 2013 and died two years later after never regaining consciousness. “It’s not a matter of filling a…
NEW YORK (JTA) — A man from New Jersey who allegedly wanted to shoot pro-Israel rallygoers and bomb Trump Tower was arrested for trying to provide support to Hamas. Jonathan Xie, 20, of Basking Ridge, was arrested Wednesday, according to WABC-TV. He allegedly made various threats on Instagram, including that he wanted to “shoot everybody” at a…
(JTA) — Terrorist attacks on Israelis more than halved over March last month, which was the first month in over a year with no casualties among victims. The Israel Security Agency documented 126 attacks in April, compared to 308 in March, the agency said in its monthly report. The previous month with neither fatalities nor…
A man in Washington state was charged Monday with two felonies after allegedly writing posts on social media threatening to conduct a mass shooting targeting Jews. Dakota Reed, 20, allegedly wrote about “pulling a Dylann Roof,” referring to the white supremacist who killed nine black people praying in a South Carolina church, the Everett Herald…
(JTA) — An Albanian national with U.S. citizenship was arrested after he told a federal informant that he wanted to join ISIS and plan a terror attack on one of several possible locations, including a synagogue. After he heard about the attacks on two mosques in New Zealand he was inspired to “attack random people”…
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