Adiv Sterman is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel.
The Times of Israel liveblogged Sunday’s events as they unfolded.
Magen David Adom said on Sunday it had received reports of a stabbing attack near the West Bank settlement of Alfei Menashe.
Security forces were converging on the area.
An Israeli man in his 50s was reportedly in a moderate to serious condition.
The attack came after earlier in the day Palestinians carried out two other attacks at West Bank settlements.
A Palestinian woman stabbed a security guard at the entrance to Betar Illit, lightly wounding a security guard. The attacker was identified as a Palestinian woman from Bethlehem, 22-year-old Halawa Alian. The IDF said she was treated by medics who then evacuated her to hospital.
That attack came less than two hours after a Palestinian car-ramming attack in the northern West Bank that left two Israelis seriously injured and two others lightly injured.
MDA releases more details regarding a stabbing attack near the West Bank city of Alfei Menashe.
Medics and paramedics rushed a 48-year-old man to the Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba. The man is in critical condition but was fully conscious, suffering from stabbing wounds in his upper body.
The suspected assailant managed to flee the scene. Security forces launched a search in the area.
Britain’s foreign secretary says airport security in many cities will need to be overhauled if it is confirmed the Russian plane crash in the Sinai was caused by a bomb planted by Islamic State members or someone inspired by them.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond warns that if those suspicions are true, there needs to be a rethink of security at airports in areas where the extremist group is active.
He told the BBC Sunday that it “may mean additional costs, it may mean additional delays at airports as people check in.”
US and British officials suspect the October 31 flight from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg was brought down by a bomb on board, but Egypt warns it is too early to say what caused the crash.
— AP
An initial investigation of the stabbing attack near the West Bank Jewish city of Alfei Mensahe indicates that an Israeli man in his 40s entered the Palestinian village of Nabi Ilyas in order to shop at a local stall.
At that point, two terrorists attacked the Israeli man, stabbed him in the stomach and fled.
The IDF sets up checkpoints around the West Bank city of Alfei Menashe in an attempt to locate the two suspected terrorists who stabbed an Israeli man nearby a short while earlier.
Drivers report heavy traffic in the area.
Investigators of the Russian plane crash in Egypt are “90 percent sure” the aircraft was downed by a bomb that detonated in the cockpit, a member of the investigation team tells Reuters.
“The indications and analysis so far of the sound on the black box indicate it was a bomb,” the Egyptian investigation team member says. “We are 90 percent sure it was a bomb.”
Palestinians hurl stones at a bus near the Etzion Bloc, next to the West Bank village of Beit Ummar.
No injuries are reported but the vehicle’s windshield is damaged, according to the Walla news site.
A bus is hit by stones in the city of northern Israeli city of Kiryat Tivon, near Haifa.
The circumstances of the incident are being investigated.
Medical teams that arrived at the scene treated several people who suffered from anxiety symptoms.
A Palestinian teen is arrested after security forces near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron discover a knife hidden in his bag, Walla reports.
The 19-year-old denies any intent to harm Israelis and says he does not know how the weapon got into his possessions.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boards a plane headed to Washington, DC, for high-level talks with US officials, including President Barack Obama.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to board a plane headed to the US, November 8, 2015 (PMO)
The two world leaders are set to hold a meeting tomorrow.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff downplays a short-lived initiative by the country’s interior minister to give many Syrians restricted asylum, insisting that procedures remain unchanged.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere appeared to surprise Merkel’s governing coalition when he said Friday that many Syrians should get “subsidiary protection,” which comes with only a one-year renewable residence permit and wouldn’t allow them to bring relatives to Germany for two years. Amid criticism, he shelved the idea hours later.
Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has said the idea apparently was produced in the Interior Ministry without consultation. Merkel’s chief of staff, Peter Altmaier, made clear in an interview with Deutschlandfunk radio he wasn’t informed that the initiative had been launched.
It remains unclear why the conservative de Maiziere’s ministry made an apparent solo decision which angered members of Gabriel’s center-left Social Democrats, but government leaders appear keen to avoid further political infighting.
Illustrative photo of refugees waiting for registration outside the state office for health and social issues in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Sept. 25 2015 (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP)
The minister’s announcement came only a day after Merkel’s coalition ended a damaging, weeklong argument over how to speed up processing of migrants with poor asylum prospects.
Germany saw 758,000 refugees and other migrants arrive between January and October and the government faces pressure to limit the influx. Syrians are the biggest single group currently arriving.
— AP
A resident of Haifa who returned from Thailand is arrested at the Ben Gurion airport on suspicion that he threatened Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife.
The suspect allegedly sent a series of threatening emails to the couple in June after authorities apparently denied his request to open a communications company.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he plans to discuss defense aid with President Barack Obama as he left for his first meeting with the US leader in over a year.
Netanyahu is due to meet Obama on Monday in Washington as the two leaders seek to set aside their testy personal relationship and turn the page after a sharp disagreement over the July nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.
The talks are to focus on US defense aid to Israel in a bid to assuage the Jewish state over the security challenges it says it now faces due to the nuclear accord, which Netanyahu firmly opposed.
Israel already receives more than $3 billion per year in US military aid in addition to other spending, such as on the Iron Dome missile defense system. The 10-year arrangement expires in 2017, and there have been reports that Netanyahu will seek a significant increase.
“I believe that this meeting is important in order to clarify the continuation of American aid to Israel in the coming decade,” Netanyahu said at the start of a cabinet meeting on Sunday. “It will be another step toward realizing an understanding in this direction.”
The new 10-year defense deal will not be finalized during the Obama-Netanyahu summit, and it would come into effect only after the current accord expires, US officials have said.
— AFP
Israeli police will recommend indicting Sheikh Khaled al-Mughrabi, a prominent preacher who regularly speaks from the pulpit at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, for inciting violence, Ynet reports.
Mughrabi was arrested on Wednesday, and has been questioned by police earlier this year after being videotaped telling worshipers that Jews kidnap non-Jewish children in order to extract their blood. He has claimed Jews control the world’s wealth and use their control of the pharmaceutical industry to spread disease.
Sheikh Khaled al-Mughrabi at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court after being arrested for inciting against Israelis and Jews, on November 4, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
Two weeks ago Channel 10 reported that Mughrabi said in a speech that “Allah can erase every memory of the Jews from every place on the planet, but he wants us to act in order to fulfill his commandment.”
“The most important thing that it’s possible to do is to protect the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and every one of its guardians will receive 70 virgins,” he said.
Four Palestinians are reported to have been injured by rubber bullets and another is reported injured by live fire during clashes with the IDF in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
Iran appoints its first female ambassador since the 1979 Islamic revolution, naming foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham to head its embassy in Malaysia, the foreign minister announces.
“Choosing Afkham as ambassador took a few minutes but choosing her successor [as spokeswoman] took four months,” Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says at a ceremony in Tehran for the 50-year-old career diplomat who will be replaced at the ministry by a man, Jaber Ansari.
Iranian media first said back in April that Afkham was lined up for promotion to the rank of ambassador, but the reports were unconfirmed.
A file picture taken on September 1, 2013 shows Iranian foreign ministry spokeswoman, Marzieh Afkham attending a ceremony in Tehran. (AFP/BEHROUZ MEHRI)
Zarif pays tribute to Afkham, who was also the first woman in the Islamic Republic to serve as foreign ministry spokeswoman, saying she had carried out her duties for two years with “dignity, bravery and particular insight.”
In turn, the new ambassador to Kuala Lumpur, quoted by state news agency IRNA, praises Zarif for “the courage to take such a decision” and for his “trust in women.”
— AFP
Three Russian soldiers or ex-soldiers were photographed near the cities of Aleppo and Homs in Syria, several Russian bloggers claim on social media, according to Reuters.
The report is still unconfirmed. Ground forces have never yet been deployed by the Russian army in Syria since launching a military campaign against rebel forces in the country several weeks ago.
An improvised grenade and a Molotov cocktail are hurled at soldiers at the Rachel’s Tomb compound during clashes in the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
No injuries are reported.
About one hundred Palestinians are taking part in a violent protest at the site, according to Walla.
The 48-year-old man who was stabbed in a suspected terrorist attack near the West Bank city of Alfei Menashe undergoes successful surgery after suffering wounds to his upper body and stomach.
His condition is stable, the NRG website reports.
The Knesset Finance Committee approves a one-time, NIS 200,000 (about $50,915) grant for orphans whose two parents were killed in terrorist attacks. The total budget allocated for the grant is NIS 16 million (about $4,073,264).
Sirens are heard in the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council.
More details to follow shortly.
A rocket falls in Israeli territory, close to the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council.
No injuries are reported.
The IDF is currently investigating the incident and searching the area for the rocket’s remains.
Security forces locate — in a field — a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip earlier in the evening.
The rocket is found slightly less than one kilometer outside of a Sha’ar Hanegev community, the regional council’s spokeswoman Michal Shaban-Kotzer tells The Times of Israel.
— Judah Ari Gross
CNN reports that Israel provided vital information regarding the Russian plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula, which indicated that a bomb had detonated in the aircraft’s cockpit.
US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro says the White House believes it is not plausible to achieve a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians by the end of President Obama’s term in office.
The Jewish Agency was involved in the rescue of three Jews from Syria, according to a report in the Jewish Chronicle.
The article claims a 90-year-old woman and her two daughters were rescued from Aleppo.
The three were transferred by truck to Turkey, Walla reports.
Joint (Arab) List MK Hanin Zoabi uses a ceremony honoring the anniversary of Kristallnacht to compare Israeli policy to the moral descent in Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
“I am honored to speak on behalf of the victims of Kristallnacht, and on behalf of all victims of racism and oppression,” Zoabi says.
“I have the honor of speaking on behalf of the Jewish opposition and on behalf of all Jews who oppose oppression throughout their lives,” Zoabi adds, during the event in Amsterdam.
“Most Israelis today believe that the Jewish Zionist values are more important than democracy,” she charges.
“It is easy to notice the gradual moral descent that reminds us of Germany during the 1930s.
A Border Police officer who was critically wounded last week in a car-ramming attack at the Halhul junction, near the West Bank city of Hebron, has died of his injuries.
Sergeant Binyamin Jakubowicz, 19, who joined the Border Police a year ago, is survived by his parents, brother and two sisters. His funeral will take place tomorrow at 6 p.m. at the cemetery in Kiryat Ata.
Jakubowicz’s family members requested to donate his organs.
The attack occurred last Wednesday, when a driver ran over a group of Border Police officers.
The driver was shot and killed by security forces.
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