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Tag Meir founder Gadi Gvaryahu gives bouquet of flowers to Mervat Igbaria, a university student who was mistaken for a terrorist while riding on a bus to Beersheba (Gabriel Carrol/Times of Israel)
September 14, 2017, 6:47 am
When police were told this student’s phone was a detonator, a nightmare ensued
As she rode the bus to university, a fellow passenger mistook Arab Israeli Mervat Igbaria's phone for a bombing device; now, strangers hope a belated apology can help soothe scars
By Dov Lieber
A still image taken from cellphone footage of security forces surrounding a knife-wielding Israeli Arab woman after she allegedly tried to stab a security guard at Afula bus station on Friday, October 9, 2015. (screen capture)
June 13, 2017, 5:33 pm
Court cancels jail term for woman who brandished knife in Afula
Accepting appeal, Nazareth judge reduces Asra’a Zidan Abed's 6-month prison sentence to community service for 2015 incident at bus station
By Raoul Wootliff
Former Israeli defense minister Moshe 'Bogie' Ya'alon speaks at the Hebrew University, on January 18, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 24, 2017, 11:40 pm
Ex-defense minister says IS ‘apologized’ to Israel for November clash
Moshe Ya'alon's office refuses to elaborate after alluding to contact with terror group
By Judah Ari Gross
A woman jumped from a second floor apartment and two children were rescued from the third floor of a burning building in the central Israeli city of Bnei Brak, February 27, 2016. Screenshot
February 27, 2017, 4:53 pm
Woman dies in Afula fire, 3 rescued from Bnei Brak blaze
2 children rescued from third floor as woman jumps from second floor in Bnei Brak
By Sue Surkes
A police picture of the Palestinian prisoner who escaped from Israeli custody on January 29, 2017. (Israel Police)
January 29, 2017, 4:22 pm
Massive manhunt underway for escaped Palestinian prisoner
Police appeal for public's help in finding 32-year-old inmate who fled IDF custody at Afula hospital
By TOI staff
Illustrative: Israel Police officers at a crime scene, November 14, 2016 in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 29, 2017, 2:26 pm
Herzog urges ex-PM Barak to return to Labor Party
White House stands by omitting Jews from Holocaust memorial message; Mother of woman murdered on Friday insists husband premeditated quadruple homicide
By Ilan Ben Zion
Illustrative: A knife wielded by a Palestinian assailant at the scene of a car-ramming attack in northern Jerusalem on Friday, March 6, 2015 (Channel 2 News)
November 15, 2016, 4:28 pm
Palestinian handed 17.5 years for stabbing IDF soldier
21-year-old West Bank native Tariq Yahya expresses remorse for knife attack, declines to disavow nationalist motives
By Tamar Pileggi
West Bank city of Jenin (photo credit: Matanya Tausig/Flash90)
October 30, 2016, 6:51 pm
3 Palestinians jailed for plan to stab Israelis
Adult and 2 minors from Jenin sentenced to 2 years for intended attack in Afula late last year
By TOI staff
A child sits in the trunk of his family's car after having been placed there by his parents, leading to fears of a kidnapping, October 17, 2016. (Israel Police)
October 17, 2016, 11:54 pm
‘Kidnapped’ child placed in car trunk by own parents
Police launch major search operation after eyewitness sees boy stuffed into vehicle's back; family: We ran out of room
By TOI staff
Illustrative photo of firefighters extinguishing a forest fire, April 25, 2016. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)
July 8, 2016, 12:35 am
Northern forest fire forces summer camp evacuation
Firefighters aided by planes work to control spreading blaze near Haifa; 3,000 displaced campers are safe
By TOI staff
Firefighters work to put out a fire in the forest around Jerusalem's residential neighborhood of Ramot, May 26, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 4, 2016, 3:21 pm
As temperatures soar, wildfires break out across Israel
Firefighting teams battle blazes from the Lebanese border down to the Negev Desert; hundreds of acres consumed
By TOI staff
A view of an Afula street (Shay Levy/Flash90)
April 24, 2016, 6:07 pm
Court revokes Arab-won housing tenders in Afula
Judge says coordination between 48 Arab families violates bidding rules, 'damages equality' in northern city
By Tamar Pileggi
Radical Islamic Movement cleric Sheikh Raed Salah (front-L) joins Arab Israelis in a prayer in support for the release of Mohammed al-Qiq, a Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike, outside the Afula hospital where he is being treated, February 12, 2016. (AFP/JACK GUEZ)
February 12, 2016, 7:20 pm
Arab Israelis rally for release of Palestinian hunger striker
Hundreds, including radical cleric Raed Salah, protest at Afula hospital treating Mohammed al-Qiq, on hunger strike for 80 days
By AFP
Photo taken on January 22, 2016, shows a Palestinian man carrying a placard bearing a portrait of Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qiq during a demonstration near Ramallah demanding his release from an Israeli jail. (Abbas Momani/AFP, File)
January 25, 2016, 2:41 pm
Palestinian hunger striker could die at ‘any moment’ — lawyer
Mohammed al-Qiq, 33, held since November 21 for alleged involvement with Hamas, has been refusing food for two months
By AFP and TOI staff
Mayor of Afula Yitzhak Meron. (YouTube/NEWSROOMNORTH1)
December 27, 2015, 12:44 am
Hundreds rally in Afula over Arab-won housing tenders
500 demonstrators hand out black balloons, call for winning bids by 48 Arab families to be revoked
By TOI staff
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