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Community Ari Fuld Was Not A ‘Settler’ — He Was An Innocent Victim Of Terror
On Sunday September 16, 2018, Ari Fuld was murdered in a shopping mall. Fuld, a 45-year-old loving husband, father of four, writer, teacher and former paratrooper, was stabbed to death by a 17-year-old terrorist. Fuld was an incredible man with a generous heart, as many have attested since his tragic murder. Ari Fuld was also…
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Opinion If You Can’t Mourn Ari Fuld, You Are An Accomplice In His Murder
Ari Fuld was a friend. We had met a couple of times face to face, shared a coffee or two, but he was omnipresent on my Facebook feed. We will meet no more. 17-year-old Khalil Yusef Ali Jabarin, from a West Bank village near Hebron, stabbed Ari in the back, and Ari succumbed to his…
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Fast Forward American-Israeli Activist Killed In West Bank Stabbing Attack
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A father of four who was an activist for Israel was stabbed to death outside a shopping mall near Efrat, the West Bank town where he lived. Ari Fuld, 45, a dual American-Israeli citizen, was attacked late Sunday morning by a Palestinian teen in the Etzion bloc. He chased after his attacker…
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Opinion 25 Years After Oslo, Palestinians Don’t Trust Hamas — Or The PA
Earlier this month, senior Hamas leader and member of Parliament Atef Odwan posted a poll on Facebook that consisted of a single yes-or-no question: “Would you re-elect [PA President Mahmoud Abbas]?” The results were more or less predetermined, since Odwan’s page is frequented mainly by Hamas supporters, and because Abbas is perhaps the most frowned…
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Fast Forward Head Of Anti-Occupation Group Breaking The Silence Detained In West Bank
(JTA) — The executive director of Breaking the Silence was detained by Israeli Border Police Friday along with two other activists. The arrested activists — Avner Gvaryahu, the group’s executive director; Achiya Shatz, its communications director; and human rights attorney Michael Sfard — were detained next to a settlement outpost in the southern West Bank,…
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Fast Forward Israel Demolishes Family Home Of Palestinian Teen Who Killed Israeli
KAUBER, West Bank (Reuters) – The Israeli military on Tuesday demolished the family home of a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank who killed an Israeli in a Jewish settlement a month ago and was shot dead in the attack. Footage distributed by the military showed an armored bulldozer tearing into the one-story structure…
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Fast Forward Israel ‘Legalizes’ West Bank Outpost On Palestinian Land
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli court ruled that a West Bank outpost can be legalized even though part of it is built on land that Palestinians claim they own. The Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday based its decision on laws regarding Israel’s market regulation, which allows for illegal property transactions to be when a buyer was…
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Opinion Trump Treatment Of The Palestinians Isn’t Just Cruel. It’s Dangerous.
On a warm day in 2014 in al-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah, Mohammad Eliyan, who represents the central West Bank refugee camps at the PLO, was complaining to me about UNRWA. Every year for the past five, the UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees had been scaling back its services, he said. At that point,…
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