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Illustrative: An empty classroom at a school in Safed, northern Israel, on August 31, 2025. (David Cohen/Flash90)
March 15, 2026, 6:48 pm
Several cities keep schools shut despite revised guidelines allowing them to reopen
Ashkelon, Ariel and Dimona decide conditions are not yet suitable to reopen their education systems, though the Home Front Command designated them as areas at lower risk
By Rossella Tercatin
New buildings at a construction site in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, February 29, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
November 9, 2025, 3:29 pm
Tenders for record number of West Bank settlement housing units published in 2025
Some 5,667 housing units will be built when the tenders are awarded, will house 25,000 residents; previous high was in 2018 when tenders for just over 3,800 homes were published
By Jeremy Sharon
Mike Johnson, left, and Yair Chetboun tour the settlement of Ariel on August 4, 2025. (Courtesy, Ariel Municipal Authority)
August 4, 2025, 11:36 pm
US Speaker Johnson makes landmark visit to West Bank settlement of Ariel
Johnson is now highest ranking US official ever to visit a settlement; while in Ariel, he reportedly says ‘the mountains of Judea and Samaria were promised to the Jewish people’
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
A car that came under fire in a shooting attack near the West Bank settlement of Ariel, March 12, 2025. (Samaria Regional Council)
March 13, 2025, 1:53 am
Israeli civilian moderately wounded in West Bank shooting attack
Troops search for assailant who shot 18-year-old driver near Ariel settlement after reportedly first using a laser to temporarily blind him
By Emanuel Fabian
Israeli security forces alongside a bullet-riddled bus after a Hamas terrorist attack at an intersection near the West Bank settlement of Ariel, near Nablus, November 29, 2024. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)
November 29, 2024, 3:37 pm
Hamas terrorist opens fire at Israeli civilian bus in West Bank; 8 wounded, 3 seriously
Palestinian gunman, who used M-16 assault rifle, shot dead by troops; Al-Qassam Brigades names him as Samir Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, 46; IDF rules out possibility of second gunman
By Emanuel Fabian
Shmuel Greenberg, left, speaks to supporters at his election headquarters during the second round of Municipal Elections, in Beit Shemesh, March 10, 2024. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)
March 11, 2024, 1:34 pm
Ultra-Orthodox retake Beit Shemesh, former Haifa mayor Yona Yahav returns to office
46.1% of eligible voters cast ballots in run-off elections across the country; right-wing candidate Matan Dil wins in Rehovot, former MK Oren Hazan trounced in Ariel
By Sam Sokol
A woman votes in the municipal elections in Jerusalem, on February 27, 2024 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
March 8, 2024, 8:18 am
Second round of municipal elections set for Sunday in 35 locales
Mayoral run-off votes to be held in those cities and towns where no candidate received 40%, including Haifa, Beit Shemesh, Ariel, Rehovot and Ramle
By Sam Sokol
Anti-judicial overhaul protesters in Maale Adumim. (Courtesy)
September 17, 2023, 3:41 pm
In the major West Bank settlements, anti-judicial overhaul rallies gather steam
Small but growing groups of protesters – many of whom are disillusioned with a government they voted for – take to the streets in some of the far-right’s strongholds
By Gavriel Fiske
An undated photo of Vyacheslav Golev, a security guard who was killed in a terror attack at Ariel on April 29, 2022, and his fiancée, Victoria Fligelman. (Courtesy)
May 31, 2023, 8:18 pm
Two Palestinians sentenced to life, plus 30 years, for deadly Ariel attack last year
Youssef Sameeh Assi and Yahya Marei convicted of murder for shooting at settlement entrance that killed security guard Vyacheslav Golev
By Emanuel Fabian
The scene of an alleged attempted stabbing near the West Bank settlement of Ariel, on April 27, 2023. (Courtesy)
April 27, 2023, 7:24 pm
IDF: Palestinian attempts ramming, stabbing near Ariel in West Bank, is shot dead
No injuries among Israelis, Palestinian bystander lightly hurt in incident at Gitai Avisar Junction
By Emanuel Fabian
Israeli troops measure the home of Muhammed Souf, who killed three in a terror attack near Ariel, in the West Bank village of Hares, on November 16, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 15, 2023, 9:48 pm
IDF issues demolition order for home of terrorist who killed 3 Israelis near Ariel
Tamir Avihai, 50, Michael Ladygin, 36, and Motti Ashkenazi, 59, were stabbed and rammed to death by Muhammed Souf, 18, during West Bank attack on November 15
By Emanuel Fabian
Israeli forces seen during a raid in the village of Hares in the West Bank, following a terror attack outside Ariel, in the West Bank, on November 15, 2022. (Flash90)
November 16, 2022, 9:37 pm
Israel revokes entry permits from hundreds of relatives of Ariel terrorist
Military’s liaison to Palestinians says move, approved by defense minister, part of year-long policy to dissuade potential attackers
By Emanuel Fabian
Mourners stand near the fresh grave of Motti Ashkenazi at the cemetery in Yavne, November 16, 2022. (Flash90)
November 16, 2022, 5:30 pm
Three fathers, three funerals: Ariel terror attack victims laid to rest
Funeral for Motti Ashkenazi held in Yavne, Michael Ladygin buried in Holon, a day after Tamir Avihai laid to rest in Kiryat Netafim
By ToI Staff
Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister Yair Lapid, and party leaders at a swearing-in ceremony of the 25th Knesset, at the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, November 15, 2022. (Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
November 16, 2022, 1:07 pm
Daily Briefing Nov. 16: Mixed reactions for 25th Knesset; MDs use new tumor tech
Knesset correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn discusses the new parliament and activists at COP27, as health and science reporter Nathan Jeffay looks at sperm count research, tumor tech
By ToI Staff
Israeli troops measure the home of Muhammed Souf, who killed three in a terror attack near Ariel, in the West Bank village of Hares, on November 16, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)
November 16, 2022, 7:34 am
IDF prepares to raze home of terrorist who killed three Israelis near Ariel
Tamir Avihai, 50, Michael Ladygin, 36, and Motti Ashkenazi, 59, stabbed and rammed to death by Muhammed Souf, 18, during attack at Ariel Industrial Park and nearby highway
By Emanuel Fabian
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