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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir in the Knesset.
July 26, 2023, 10:40 am
OPINION: Israelis are asking for our support. Will we be there for them?
If we do not want this Tisha B’Av to be another harbinger of heartbreak and destruction we need to speak up – not apologetically – but with clarity and conviction, writes Sir Mick Davis
By Sir Mick Davis
The town of Huwara near Nablus in Area A of the West Bank
March 20, 2023, 11:23 am
Israeli man shot and injured driving through flashpoint West Bank town
The former US Marine, who lives in a settlement, was hit by several bullets before the assailant fled on Sunday morning
By Jewish News Reporter
Settlers setting the Palestinian town of Huwara on fire, February 26 2023. Courtesy: Twitter.
March 16, 2023, 3:11 pm
United Arab Emirates sends £2.5million to reconstruct Huwara
Initiative for West Bank village to be undertaken in collaboration with the Emirati-Palestinian Friendship Club
By Michelle Rosenberg
Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new right-wing coalition and its proposed judicial reforms to reduce powers of the Supreme Court, in Tel Aviv, Israel January 21, 2023. REUTERS/Ilan Rosenberg
March 9, 2023, 2:15 pm
OPINION: Israel is sacrificing years of hard-earned progress
As protests against proposed changes to its judiciary continue, Israel’s reputation as a modern, liberal democracy and global pioneer in technology is at stake, writes Alex Brummer for Jewish News
By Alex Brummer
Some 400 Israeli demonstrators who marched toward the Palestinian town of Huwara on Friday, in an attempt to show solidity with the victims of a pogrom carried out by a mob of violent settlers the week before. Credit: Jotam Confino
March 7, 2023, 10:00 am
Former Knesset speaker joins joint Palestinian-Israeli demonstration in Huwara
Avraham Burg, who was speaker from 1999 to 2003, described the settler riot in the town as a "watershed" moment, causing an unprecedented amount of Israelis to demonstrate in the West Bank.
By Jotam Confino in Huwara
Settlers setting the Palestinian town of Huwara on fire, February 26 2023. Courtesy: Twitter.
March 6, 2023, 12:23 pm
OPINION: What is a government’s purpose if not to protect ALL its citizens?’
How is a government that allows police to use tear gas to suppress peaceful demonstrators in Tel Aviv unable to stop a violent mob attacking innocent Palestinians, asks former Board of Deputies president Vivian Wineman
By Vivian Wineman
Left wing activists protest against last nights events in Hawara, in Haifa, (Feb. 27, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)
March 2, 2023, 4:21 pm
Israeli Orthodox Jew raises hundreds of thousands of dollars for victims of settler riot
“Even in our place of deep rage and sorrow, we must never lose our humanity. That is not our Judaism,” says left-wing political activist Yair Fink
By Ron Kampeas (JTA)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich arrive to a cabinet meeting on the state budget, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem.
March 2, 2023, 2:44 pm
‘Wipe out’ Palestinian town minister Smotrich to speak at American Jewish event
It will be the first US trip for the minister since the emergence of the new coalition.
By Ron Kampeas (JTA)
Anti-coalition protests in Tel Aviv and the aftermath of the settlers riot in the Palestinian village of Huwara.
March 2, 2023, 8:48 am
Netanyahu likens judicial overhaul protesters to savage West Bank village rioters
The prime minister's comparison comes as the United States calls Bezalel Smotrich's call for Huwara to be wiped out “repugnant”.
Far-right leader, Betzalel Smotrich, in Knesset.
March 1, 2023, 12:40 pm
Far-right leader Smotrich: Palestinian town of Huwara should be ‘wiped out’
Hundreds of settlers carried out a pogrom in the Palestinian town of Huwara in the West Bank on Sunday in revenge for a Palestinian terror attack that killed two Israelis
By Jotam Confino in Israel
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