Pro-Israel groups rail at EU plans to label products originating in the West Bank
Indications that the European Union will soon adopt a recommendation to label Israeli products originating in the West Bank has spurred pro-Israel groups into action.
Netanyahu announces decision to install security cameras in West Bank
Following a wave of violence in Jerusalem and the West Bank over the past month, during which two Israelis were stabbed to death, a married couple shot dead in front of four of their six children, and another succumbing to injuries after a car accident caused by stone throwing, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that the government “will restore security” through a myriad of measures.
Terrorists suspected of murdering Israeli couple arrested
JERUSALEM — The members of a terror cell responsible for the murder of an Israeli couple whose four children were in the car at the time of the attack have been arrested.
The five-member terror cell affiliated with the Hamas terror movement in Nablus in the West Bank were arrested Monday during a joint operation conducted by the Shin Bet security agency, the Israel Defence Forces and the Israel Police, according to statements released by the security agencies.
SodaStream CEO: BDS put politics above Palestinian people
SodaStream’s chief executive called the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement anti-Semitic and maintained that his company gave West Bank Palestinian workers good pay and benefits.
In an interview with the Associated Press on Wednesday, two weeks before the West Bank factory is set to close, SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum said his company’s critics did not have a grasp on the situation on the ground at the factory.
Palestinian comes to aid of American yeshiva students attacked in West Bank firebombing
After taking a wrong turn that eventually led them to the predominantly Palestinian city of Hebron in West Bank, five American yeshiva students were attacked by locals Thursday, who hurled firebombs at their car and set it on fire.
According to Israeli news agencies Walla and Ynet, the students, who are residents of Brooklyn, NY, accidentally entered the southern part of the city on their way to the Cave of the Patriarchs, and were eventually met with assailants.
Two of the students were reportedly injured “lightly-to-moderately.”
Q&A Shlomo Fischer: Some settlers think they’re above law
Shlomo Fischer, senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) and an expert on radical Jewish extremism, believes recent attacks by young haredi Jews in Israel – against a Galilee church and an Arab family in their home in the village of Duma – represent a new religious extremism. Some young people growing up in the West Bank, he tells The CJN, trace their violent roots to the “neo-haredi” activism of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane.
Do the recent attacks by religious Jews in Israel have anything in common?
A brief Canadian respite for injured Israeli soldiers
When I met Reuven Magen last month at a Niagara winery, he was sipping ice wine, joking with his pals and admiring the view of the Escarpment. In his baggy shorts and loose tank top, he looked like a West Coast surfer dude, which makes sense, since he spent his early years living in San Diego, Calif., before he and his family moved to the West Bank settlement of Elkana.
Inter-ethnic encounters bring hope for peace
When focusing on Israeli-Palestinian relations, as I do for a living, it’s nice to have a good news story to relay. On June 22, the annual Victor J. Goldberg Prize for Peace in the Middle East (run by the New-York based Institute of International Education) was awarded to Yehuda Stolov and Salah Aladdin, two leaders of the Interfaith Encounter Association (IEA). To many outsiders, inter-ethnic encounter experiences seem a no-brainer when it comes to grassroots, peace building efforts.
Arson attack on Galilee church called a hate crime
Sixteen youths were detained by police for questioning over a suspected arson attack on a historic church in northern Israel.
The youths, reportedly all residents of the West Bank who were hiking in the area, were later released, according to reports.
French plan won’t lead to peace
Late last month, news reports mounted about France’s efforts to introduce a resolution to the UN Security Council setting an 18-month deadline on Israeli-Palestinian talks aimed at creating a Palestinian state.
Under U.S. urging, France is reportedly prepared to wait until the P5+1 Iranian nuclear talks, scheduled to conclude by June 30, play themselves out. France has warned that the nuclear talks may exceed that deadline, but the speculation is that the French, along with New Zealand, will move ahead with their draft resolution this summer.
