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Fast Forward Case Closed Against Parents Who Shot Palestinians During West Bank Family Hike
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The case against two Israeli fathers who shot into a mob of Palestinians, killing one, while escorting a West Bank hike in honor of a boy’s bar mitzvah has been closed. The Central District Attorney’s Office determined that the father shot his firearm in self-defense. On November 30, at least 30 Palestinian…
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Fast Forward West Bank Construction Starts Rose Dramatically In 2017: Report
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Construction starts in West Bank settlements rose dramatically during 2017, with most of the new housing starts in isolated settlements. Peace Now in its annual settlement construction report released on Sunday reported that 2,783 new housing units began construction in the West Bank in 2017, around 17 percent higher than the yearly…
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Fast Forward 2 Israelis Killed In Palestinian Car Ramming Attack In West Bank
A Palestinian motorist killed two Israelis and injured at least one other person in the occupied West Bank on Friday in what witnesses described as a deliberate ramming attack but may have been an accident, Israel’s Army Radio said. The incident took place near the Jewish settlement of Mevo Dotan, west of the Palestinian town…
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Fast Forward When Jewish Pilgrims Visit West Bank — And Nothing Goes Wrong
The Israeli armored convoy rolls into the West Bank town of Jericho and comes to a halt outside a building with a Palestinian flag fluttering over it. At first glance, it might have looked like another incursion. But then out of the bus guarded by Israeli troops emerge Jewish pilgrims, on a visit to the…
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Fast Forward Israel Supreme Court Delays Demolition Of West Bank Settlement
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court delayed by three months the scheduled demolition of homes in a West Bank outpost built completely or in part on Palestinian-owned land. The court on Wednesday agreed to a government request to postpone the demolition in the Netiv Haavot outpost while it prepares temporary housing for the 15 families…
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Fast Forward Survivors Of Stabbing Attack Sue Palestinian Authority Over Family Deaths
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…
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Community The Israeli Settlement Movement Is Failing
Earlier this week, settlement movement leader Yaakov Katz, in comments to the Associated Press boasting about the growth of the settler population in the West Bank, illustrated well the old saying, “in God we trust; and all others must bring data.” Katz does bring data — but we must not trust them. Contrary to his…
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Fast Forward Israeli Cabinet Approves Legalizing West Bank Outpost
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A proposal to begin legalizing the West Bank outpost of Netiv Haavot was approved by Israel’s Cabinet. More than a dozen homes on the outpost, located 11 miles south of Jerusalem in the Etzion bloc, are scheduled to be demolished next week. The Cabinet approval on Sunday includes funds for the outpost,…
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