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Israeli soldiers surround a building site in the West Bank village of Qusra after it was attacked by settlers, on August 29, 2026. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)
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'The army comes to protect the settlers'
As settler violence surges, some ask whether Israel can’t crack down, or simply won’t
By Stav Levaton, Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan
With attacks spreading across West Bank, locals and activists describe 'vague' orders, political pressure and systemic issues that result in troops punishing Palestinian victims rather than Israeli assailants
Yaqoub Shibli (right) being arrested by police on August 16 for allegedly pledging allegiance to ISIS. (Screenshot/Israel Police)
September 7, 2026, 11:28 am
Teen from northern Bedouin town charged with pledging allegiance to Islamic State
Yaqoub Shibli, 19, consumed online ISIS content, say police and Shin Bet, in latest in string of arrests of Israeli youth associating with terror group
By Noam Lehmann
Jewish men build temporary housing units made from shipping containers in the Chavat Meir La’Aretz outpost in the West Bank, March 12, 2026. (Dor Pazuelo/Flash90)
September 7, 2026, 12:17 am
Netanyahu orders some West Bank outposts removed, amid US pressure over settler attacks
Not clear when move was ordered or will be carried out; 2 settlers arrested over Qusra violence, as High Court, considering separate attack, says phenomenon violates Israeli, Jewish principles of justice; IDF raids Hamas cell, finds rocket
By Noam Lehmann, Emanuel Fabian, Jeremy Sharon and Agencies
Israel Police Commissioner Daniel Levy (L) the scene of a shooting incident in Ramle, May 11, 2026, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at a press conference in Tel Aviv, September 4, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90, Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 6, 2026, 8:34 pm
Police chief reportedly makes senior appointments despite Ben Gvir’s election freeze
Minister says reported picks just recommendations, none to be okayed close to vote, but was said to back out of deal to tap top officers because Levy sought to promote AG’s allies
By Noam Lehmann
Swastikas sprayed during a break-in at Shvilim democratic school in Pardes Hanna on September 6, 2026. (Pardes Hanna Municipality)
September 6, 2026, 6:29 pm
Pardes Hanna school broken into, daubed with swastikas and a racial slur
Municipality condemns ‘expression of racism, hate and violence,’ days into school year; police investigating, with perpetrator and motive still unclear
By Noam Lehmann
Sgt. David Amrani (Courtesy)
September 5, 2026, 11:56 pm
Border Police officer shot dead after opening fire on police; said to suffer from PTSD
Footage shows Sgt. David Amrani carrying rifle before officers shoot him in Netanya; no additional casualties reported
By ToI Staff
Israel Police officers operate in Nazareth amid raids targeting organized crime, September 2-4, 2026. (Israel Police)
September 4, 2026, 12:52 pm
Cops raid Nazareth after 4 murdered in 24 hours, arrest 30 over alleged gangland killings
Police seize weapons, ammunition in two nights of operations against gang-linked compounds in northern city; Mahmoud Biatra, 30, is 172nd Arab Israeli homicide victim of 2026
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
People walk through Damascus gate into the old city of Jerusalem on March 6, 2025, during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. (John Wessels/AFP)
September 4, 2026, 11:15 am
East Jerusalem man tries to stab cops near Old City, is shot dead — police
33-year-old assailant reportedly first tried to attack civilians in overnight incident near Damascus Gate; no Israelis hurt
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Palestinians inspect a house that was set on fire and spray-painted with graffiti during an attack by a group of extremist Jewish settlers in the village of Osarin, south of Nablus in the West Bank, August 23, 2026. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
September 4, 2026, 9:04 am
Four more arrested, including an IDF conscript, on suspicion of settler violence
Two teenagers arrested at airport en route to Uman pilgrimage, plus 29-year-old who violated court order, and army recruit; earlier, police arrested 19-year-old over Qusra violence
By Noam Lehmann
Jewish wedding contracts seized during a police raid on the northern community of Yavne'el, in connection to underage marriages, September 3, 2026. (Israel Police screenshot)
September 3, 2026, 11:30 pm
Police say 16 detained in northern town in crackdown on underage marriages
In second raid on Yavne’el’s ultra-Orthodox Breslov sect since June, officers also reportedly question 15-year-old girl with a two-month-old baby
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A police car in Herzliya, August 15, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)
September 3, 2026, 3:37 am
Three killed in two separate Nazareth shootings, as crime wave rocks Arab community
Two men in their 30s killed by shots fired at car; three hours later a 27-year-old is also shot dead; police searching for suspects
By Noam Lehmann
Palestinians inspect burned-out cars after an attack by settlers, where they also spray-painted Hebrew graffiti on the walls of a house in Beita, south of Nablus in the West Bank, September 2, 2026. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
September 3, 2026, 2:24 am
US issues harsher censure of ‘West Bank violence,’ without explicitly blaming Israel
Washington urges legal action against perpetrators, but doesn’t use the word ‘settler’; 2 Palestinians reportedly shot dead after security forces enter village to find missing pets
By Jacob Magid, Nurit Yohanan and Noam Lehmann
Illustrative: Iraqi Army soldiers celebrate as they hold a flag of the Islamic State group they captured during a military operation to regain control of a village outside Mosul, Iraq, November 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, file)
September 2, 2026, 5:12 pm
Former IDF soldier charged with training to fight abroad with Islamic State
Indictment charges that Khamis Sawaed, from the Bedouin village of Hussniyya, became interested in ISIS in 2023 and was planning to travel to Syria or Africa to join group
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Palestinians check the damage to a mosque that, according to residents, was burned during an attack by Israeli settlers, in the West Bank village of Bazariya, September 1, 2026, as on its wall a Hebrew graffiti reads “Huckabee regards from the terrorists”, referring to the US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
September 1, 2026, 11:47 am
West Bank mosque said torched by settlers; 8 arrested for assaults on Palestinians, mosque arsons
Suspects aged 16 to 20; 4 Palestinians shot during raid by settlers, soldiers; elderly Palestinian woman beaten; former Israeli officials to NYT: Settler violence is ‘like the Germans’
By Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Stills from footage of a Tesla on an Israeli highway, with the driver out of sight and allegedly asleep at the wheel, and the vehicle apparently on autopilot setting, August 31, 2026. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the copyright law)
August 31, 2026, 5:30 pm
Police investigate after man filmed asleep at the wheel of Tesla
Viral video shows car moving alongside traffic while its driver sleeps; police say Israeli law requires drivers to hold steering wheel, even in self-driving cars
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest the army draft outside Tel HaShomer army base in Ramat Gan, August 31, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)
August 31, 2026, 3:08 pm
Haredi anti-draft protesters block roads at IDF induction center for second day
Protests come as IDF prepares to receive hundreds of ultra-Orthodox recruits; several demonstrators hold signs saying ‘it was better to die as a Jew in the Holocaust than to spiritually die in IDF camps’
By ToI Staff
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