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Illustrative photo of Israeli students on trip to Poland in 2011 (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
March 30, 2015, 5:48 am
Tour guide beaten, called ‘dirty Jew’ during school trip
Umm al-Fahm students attack yeshiva educator; Education Ministry promises to investigate
By Lazar Berman
Anti-Syrian regime protesters holding a placard with a caricature of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a demonstration in Kafr Nabil, in Idlib province, northern Syria, Friday, May 17, 2013.(photo credit: AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)
May 17, 2013, 8:59 pm
Rights groups: Syria holds thousands incommunicado
More than two years into conflict, accounts of disappearances have become chillingly familiar to citizens of Assad’s regime
By Karin Laub
May 5, 2013, 8:38 pm
US says Syrians must be held accountable for massacre
Over 100 executed in Banias area town; rebel forces capture part of air base in northern part of country
May 5, 2013, 12:39 am
Massacre report prompts mass flight from Syrian town
Thousands flee coastal Banias area after pro-Assad troops said to kill dozens in Sunni village
Syrian army soldiers, seen in the background, standing in front of dead bodies at Bayda village, in the mountains outside the coastal city of Banias, Syria, in May (photo credit: AP/The Syrian Revolution against Bashar Assad)
May 4, 2013, 11:08 am
Hundreds flee Syrian city after reported massacre
Carnage, raids by Assad troops in Sunni neighborhood in Banias prompt families to leave Alawite area
Syrian army soldiers, seen in the background, standing in front of dead bodies at Bayda village, in the mountains outside the coastal city of Banias, Syria, in May (photo credit: AP/The Syrian Revolution against Bashar Assad)
May 3, 2013, 6:24 pm
Syrian opposition: Gov’t troops killed 50 villagers
Forces loyal to Assad regime accused of committing ‘large-scale massacre’ in Sunni town near Mediterranean coast
An illustrative photo of kids playing with toboggans at the Hermon Mountain ski resort (photo credit: Dima Vazinovich/Flash90)
January 12, 2013, 10:58 am
Israelis hit the slopes following storm of the decade
Thousands flock to the snow-capped Mount Hermon and the lush Banias River and springs
By Michal Shmulovich
July 23, 2012, 6:46 pm
Syrian rebels burn Palestinian flag, thinking it’s Iranian
Youtube video shows confusion among Islamist rebels who capture border crossing with Turkey
By Elhanan Miller
May 19, 2012, 2:38 pm
Body of drowned woman found near Banias River
20-year-old was swimming and climbing rocks near a waterfall with her boyfriend
By Michal Shmulovich
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