This is the Forward’s coverage of the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel and a focus of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Fast Forward SodaStream Hires 300 Workers at Israel Plant After Quitting West Bank
JERUSALEM — Southern Israel-based SodaStream has hired 300 new employees for its production plant in the Negev Desert. The company now has 1,400 employees in the Idan Hanegev industrial park near Lehavim, one-third of them Bedouin Arabs from the surrounding area, the Israeli business daily Globes reported. The company, one of the largest employers in…
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Fast Forward David Ben-Gurion Favored West Bank Withdrawal, Newly Unearthed Footage Shows
— Newly rediscovered footage of a 1968 interview with David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, shows that he opposed West Bank settlements and instead favored returning most of the land Israel captured in the Six-Day War. The six-hour interview with Ben-Gurion — segments of which appear in a new film called “Ben-Gurion Epilogue” — had been…
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Fast Forward Did Jewish Extremists Firebomb Same Palestinian Village Where Family Murdered?
— Palestinian and Israeli officials are offering competing explanations for a fire that broke out next door to the West Bank home where three members of a Palestinian family were killed in an arosn attack by Jewish extremists. Reports of a fire early Wednesday morning near the house where three Palestinians were killed in last year’s firebombing…
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Fast Forward 2 Israeli Soldiers Wounded in Stabbing Near Hebron
JERUSALEM — Two soldiers were wounded in a Palestinian stabbing attack between Hebron and Gush Etzion. The attack on Monday afternoon occurred while the soldiers were carrying out a routine patrol on Route 60, a well-traveled West Bank thoroughfare, near the al-Aroub refugee camp north of Hebron. The Palestinian assailant was shot by one of…
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Israel News Jewish Settlers Build West Bank Hotels To Attract Christian Tourist Dollars — and Support
Shiloh, West Bank — On a Thursday in June, a group of Christian tourists from San Jose, California, stood in a shady grove in Shiloh, a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Their tour guide, Yisrael ben Arie, who was wearing an “Ancient Shiloh” T-shirt and work boots, explained that they were standing on…
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Fast Forward Israel Tightens Noose Around Palestinian Hebron After Terror Killings
Israel has ramped up security in the occupied West Bank since a Palestinian killed a 13-year-old Jewish girl in a settlement last week, deploying more troops and setting up checkpoints near the city of Hebron. Attention is on Bani Na’im, a town to the east where the girl’s killer, a 19-year-old who stabbed her as…
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Fast Forward Israel Gives Green Light to 1,400 New Homes for West Bank Settlers
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorized the construction of new housing for Jewish citizens in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. An anonymous Israeli official confirmed Netanyahu gave the green light to build nearly the 1,400 new homes, reported Tuesday, primarily in response to the rash of Palestinian attacks on Israelis and visiting Americans since September 2015. Nearly…
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Fast Forward Father of 10 Killed in West Bank Drive-By Attack Recalled as Altruistic Teacher
— More than 1,000 mourners attended the funeral for a father of 10 who was killed in a West Bank drive-by shooting. The funeral of Rabbi Michael “Miki” Mark was held Sunday in the Otniel settlement in the West Bank followed by his burial in Jerusalem. Mark was killed Friday when terrorists opened fire on…
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