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Hassana Mohammed, 13, who scaled a fence to escape an attack on her Government Girls Science and Technical College, stands outside her home in Dapchi, Nigeria, on February 22, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / AMINU ABUBAKAR)
February 25, 2018, 8:12 pm
Parents release names of 105 missing Nigerian girls
Young students are believed to have been abducted as brides by Boko Haram jihadists
By Haruna Umar
Children rescued from Nazi concentration camps in Europe arrive at the Atlit detention camp near Haifa in 1945. (GPO)
August 14, 2016, 1:06 pm
Ashkenazi babies, children of Holocaust survivors, also ‘disappeared’ by Israel
New investigation into newborns abducted from Yemenite families reveals practice may have gone beyond Middle Eastern Jewish communities
By Raoul Wootliff
Yemenite immigrants in a camp near Ein Shemer in 1950. (Pinn Hans/GPO)
July 31, 2016, 12:55 am
Hanegbi says hundreds of Yemenite children were kidnapped in 1950s
Minister overseeing probe into classified documents linked to controversial affair says public may never know the full truth
By TOI staff
Yemenite immigrants in a camp near Ein Shemer in 1950 (Pinn Hans/GPO)
July 9, 2016, 2:06 pm
National Library posts state report on Yemenite children online
Publicly available sections of commission's findings can now be accessed by anyone, though protocols currently remain classified
By TOI staff
A conference on the Yemenite Children Affair in the Knesset on June 21, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 21, 2016, 7:22 pm
Wounds over missing Yemenite children open, MKs renew push for truth
Families demand government declassify documents sealed until 2071 on dark affair involving alleged kidnappings; Netanyahu baffled on why they were sealed in first place
By Marissa Newman
Jewish medical student Peter Gold shot while stopping attempted abduction (Youtube screenshot)
November 23, 2015, 4:07 am
US Jewish med student shot while stopping abduction
Peter Gold intervenes after seeing woman pushed into car against her will in New Orleans
By JTA
Security camera footage showing a stabbing attack at a Rami Levy supermarket on December 3. 2014. (Screen capture: YouTube)
December 4, 2014, 6:40 pm
Dramatic footage shows supermarket stabbing attack
Assailant seen in wine aisle of Rami Levy store before attacking victims and trying to flee; cousin of East Jerusalem teen killed by Jewish extremists was among first to help wounded
By Avi Lewis and Marissa Newman
Nigeria's Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau in a video from May 12, 2014 (Photo credit: AP Photo/File)
November 2, 2014, 3:20 am
Nigerian terrorist says kidnapped girls married
'If you knew the state your daughters are in today, it might lead some of you ... to die from grief,' Boko Haram leader says
By Haruna Umar and MICHELLE FAUL
Fighters from Islamic State seen marching in their stronghold of Raqqa, Syria, June 2014. (AP/Militant Website, File)
September 4, 2014, 4:57 pm
Senior Islamic State commander said killed in Mosul
Abu Hajar al-Suri, the group's number 2, reported dead for second time; jihadists abduct 50 in northern Iraq
By AFP and TOI staff
The home of Muhammad Abu Khdeir in Shuafat, Jerusalem, July 8, 2014 (Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
August 12, 2014, 4:40 am
Abu Khdeir murder suspect gives chilling account of killing
'We said -- they took three of ours, let’s take one of theirs,' Ben-David recounts to police in his testimony
By Itamar Sharon
Police escort Yosef Haim Ben-David, one of the Jewish suspects of the murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir, in the Disctrict Court in Jerusalem, Wednesday, August 6, 2014 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 6, 2014, 4:35 pm
Suspect in Abu Khdeir killing ordered kept in custody
Bereaved father of Arab teen calls alleged killers 'Nazis' and 'dogs,' urges government to demolish their houses
By Yifa Yaakov
Police escort Yosef Haim Ben-David, one of the Jewish suspects of the murder of Muhammed Abu Khdeir, in the Disctrict Court in Jerusalem (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 27, 2014, 3:06 pm
Suspect in Abu Khdeir killing says he’s ‘the messiah’
Yosef Haim Ben-David, 29, is expected to plead insanity in alleged revenge murder; lawyer says he is in severe mental distress
By Lazar Berman
16-year-old Muhammad Abu Khdeir, a Palestinian teenager whose burned body was found Wednesday, July 2, 2014, in the Jerusalem Forest (photo credit: AFP via family handout)
July 20, 2014, 10:31 pm
Adult suspect in Abu Khdeir murder named
Jerusalem District Court says Yosef Haim Ben-David, 29, is prime suspect in killing of East Jerusalem teen
By Aron Dónzis
The burnt Hyundai believed used by the kidnappers and killers of three Israeli teenagers is taken away near Hebron, Friday, June 13, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
June 30, 2014, 10:50 pm
What happened on the night of the kidnapping
The teenagers were shot dead in the backseat of the car within minutes of the abduction; the killers believed, erroneously, that the security forces were on their trail
By David Horovitz and Mitch Ginsburg
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman in May. (photo credit: Flash90)
June 15, 2014, 8:45 am
No more prisoner swaps, Liberman vows after kidnapping
Foreign minister says deals like Shalit exchange could lead to more abductions, blames Abbas for kidnapping of Israeli teens
By TOI staff
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