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Alon Shvut

Police inspect a damaged car at the home of Supreme Court Deputy President Noam Sohlberg in the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut, after ultra-Orthodox Jews attacked the home in protest against the jailing of those who failed to comply with IDF draft orders, June 3, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 4, 2026, 2:48 pm
Supreme Court president: Haredi rampage at justice’s home was attack on rule of law
Amit vows court system and judges will not bow to violent intimidation; 62 suspects to face custody hearing, some said refusing to cooperate; GroPro cameras and drones seized
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
A large chunk of debris from an intercepted Houthi ballistic missile lands in the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut, May 15, 2025. (X, used in accordance of clause 27a of the copyright law)
May 16, 2025, 12:51 am
IDF intercepts missile from Yemen; debris lands in West Bank settlement
No injuries reported as sirens sound in Israel for third day in a row; Trump says US could ‘go back on the offensive’ if Houthis resume attacks despite ceasefire
By Emanuel Fabian
Cpl. Yonatan Elazari who was killed in Ofakim on October 7, 2023. (IDF)
February 12, 2024, 9:32 pm
Cpl. Yonatan Elazari, 19: Unarmed trainee went to fight back invasion
Killed battling Hamas terrorists in Ofakim on October 7
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Zeev Weitman gives a lecture on a kosher dairy in Jerusalem, in 2019. (courtesy, Maor Hakashrut/YouTube)
July 31, 2023, 7:47 pm
In unusual move, West Bank rabbi announces referendum on his job
Rabbi Zeev Weitman’s reelection statement follows criticism of colleagues for allegedly lacking accountability
By Canaan Lidor
Workmen operate heavy machinery at a construction site in the West Bank settlement of Ariel on Jan. 25, 2017. (AP/Ariel Schalit, File)
October 10, 2017, 4:54 pm
Underwhelming settlers, Israel to advance just 2,000 West Bank homes
Among 1,200 units set to gain final Defense Ministry okay next week are residences for evacuees of illegal Ulpana, Migron, Amona outposts; earlier reports had spoken of 4,000 homes
By Jacob Magid
Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers in the West Bank on January 17, 2016 (AFP/Menahem Kahana)
June 17, 2017, 5:23 am
Civilian lightly injured in West Bank stabbing attempt
Israeli man fights off assailant near Gush Etzion Junction until IDF forces disarm, arrest him
By ToI Staff
18-year-old Ezra Schwartz from Massachusetts, killed during a terrorist attack at the Gush Etzion Junction, November 19, 2015. (Courtesy)
March 19, 2017, 11:36 pm
Palestinian who killed US teen Ezra Schwartz gets 4 life sentences
Hebron terrorist in 2015 gunned down the Massachusetts yeshiva student along with an Israeli teacher and Palestinian bystander
By Tamar Pileggi
Family and friends mourn at the funeral of IDF Lieutenant Shir Hajaj at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, January 9, 2017. (Sebi Berens/Flash90)
January 9, 2017, 6:47 pm
4 soldiers killed in Jerusalem terror attack laid to rest
Hundreds attend ceremonies for cadets, officer killed Sunday; 4 injured in attack remain hospitalized; 9 Palestinians arrested in connection
By ToI Staff
Erez Orbach (Courtesy)
January 9, 2017, 2:08 pm
Soldier killed in ramming attack, a US-Israeli citizen, laid to rest
Thousands at funeral in Kfar Etzion for Erez Orbach, who fought health exemption to join IDF; other funerals also scheduled for Monday
By ToI Staff
Ahmed Dawabsha, the sole survivor of a West Bank arson attack in Duma village, is carried by his grandfather Hussein at the Tel HaShomer Hospital in Ramat Gan, Israel on Friday, July 22, 2016 (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
August 27, 2016, 10:24 pm
Duma survivor Ahmed Dawabsha taken to home of Hamas terrorist
Six-year-old participates in ‘solidarity visit’ to demolished family home of Mohammed al-Kharoub, who murdered 3 people last year
By ToI Staff
The "Lone Oak," a surviving symbol of the pre-1948 community in the Gush Etzion area (Shmuel Bar-Am)
April 23, 2016, 9:30 am
In the Etzion Bloc, source of Jerusalem’s water, and defense
In Herod’s era, Jerusalem had grown so fast there was never enough water for its residents. Then the king found a supply that he hoped would make the people love him…
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
The wife of Raid Masalmeh, a Palestinian man who stabbed two Israelis to death at an office building and car park in Tel Aviv, walks past the debris of her family home after it was demolished near the West Bank village of Dura on February 23, 2016.(AFP / HAZEM BADER)
February 23, 2016, 6:45 am
IDF razes West Bank homes of two Palestinian terrorists
After temporary court injunction, army engineers level houses belonging to suspects in deadly November 19 attacks in Tel Aviv, Etzion Bloc
By ToI Staff
Israeli police at the scene where two Israelis were killed in a stabbing attack by a Palestinian terrorist at the Panorama building in southern Tel Aviv , on November 19, 2015. (Moti Karelitz/ZAKA TEL AVIV)
February 5, 2016, 9:17 am
Court delays demolition of terrorists’ homes
Injunction follows petitions by families of Palestinians behind deadly November 19 attacks in Tel Aviv, Etzion Bloc
By ToI Staff
Protesters in Gush Etzion holding a poster of Israelis killed in terrorist attacks, Nov. 23, 2015. (Ben Sales)
November 25, 2015, 3:38 am
Terror shakes suburban normalcy of Gush Etzion
Hit hard by attacks, residents of settlement bloc halfway between Jerusalem and Hebron demand greater security, disagree over interaction with local Palestinians
By Ben Sales
18-year-old Ezra Schwartz from Massachusetts, killed during a terrorist attack at the Gush Etzion Junction, November 19, 2015. (Courtesy)
November 22, 2015, 6:30 am
Muslim leader in Sharon, Mass. consoles Jews over teen killed in terror attack
In letter to community rabbi, Imam Abdul Rahman Ahmad extends ‘deepest condolences’ to his ‘Jewish brothers and sisters’
By ToI Staff
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