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View of the Arab-Israeli town of Baqa al-Gharbiya. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
October 9, 2018, 12:30 am
Arab town cancels launch event for convicted terrorist’s book
Baqa al-Gharbiya abandons plans after interior minister warns it against using public buildings to ‘give voice’ to Walid Daka
By TOI staff
Karim Jumhour (Courtesy)
July 13, 2018, 2:45 pm
Police chief: Kidnapped boy held in West Bank, PA is responsible for his safety
Roni Alsheich says Israeli police in talks with Palestinian counterparts to secure freedom of seven-year-old Karim Jumhour
By TOI staff
This screen capture shows a masked man kidnapping 7-year-old Karim Jumhour from outside his home in the Arab city of Qalansawe in July 2018. (Screen capture: Facebook)
July 12, 2018, 9:17 am
Police arrest 4 suspects as hunt for kidnapped 7-year-old continues
Public security minister says he is personally supervising efforts to find Karim Jumhour; arrests come after reports of deal reached with captors for return of the boy
By TOI staff
This screen capture shows a masked man kidnapping 7-year-old Karim Jumhour from outside his home in the Arab city of Qalansawe in July 2018. (Screen capture: Facebook)
July 11, 2018, 9:15 pm
Report: Boy kidnapped in financial fight safe, to be returned home soon
Shocking footage shows moment 7-year-old Karim Jumhour is snatched from outside his home in Qalansawe by a masked man in a white car
By TOI staff
Illustrative: An Israeli police car in Petah Tikva, August 4, 2017. (Roy Alima/ Flash90)
July 10, 2018, 11:05 pm
Police searching for 7-year-old boy thought kidnapped in family feud
Child snatched outside home in central Israel as part of what cops suspect is a financial dispute
By TOI staff
Rasha Atamny, 31, from Baqa al-Gharbiyye, is Israel's first female Arab-Muslim diplomat. (Twitter)
April 5, 2017, 2:12 pm
Israel appoints its first female Muslim diplomat
Rasha Atamny, 31, from Baqa al-Gharbiya, will be heading to Turkey
By Dov Lieber
Middle Eastern refugees and IsraAID staff and volunteers at a picnic in a Berlin park, summer 2016. Hillel Zand is in the lower left corner. (Hillel Zand)
November 19, 2016, 11:18 pm
What Muslim refugees in Berlin taught me about being a mensch
Working with IsraAID in the German capital for a summer, an American college student learns from those fleeing Mideast carnage how to be a Jew, a Zionist and a human being
By Hillel Zand
Muslim women working on computers (illustrative photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
September 13, 2016, 10:15 am
Citi to help Israeli Arabs benefit from startup boom
$400,000 grant will create accelerators for entrepreneurs in Haifa and Jaffa, and beef up an existing one in Baqa al-Gharbiya
By Shoshanna Solomon
A view of the Northern Arab-Israeli city of Nazareth, on January 26, 2016 (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)
June 2, 2016, 12:17 pm
Arab Israeli Salafists take aim at sports and culture
Citing a strict interpretation of Sunni Islam, a growing movement is targeting Arabic-language films, theater and athletics
By Majeda El Batsh
Zaitoun Ventures cofounders Forsan Hussein (left) and Ami Dror (Courtesy)
January 31, 2016, 9:09 am
Why Jewish and Arab cofounders are good for business
Forsan Hussein and Ami Dror started Zaitoun Ventures a year and a half ago to back joint Jewish-Arab startups. Investors can’t get enough
By Simona Weinglass
A Palestinian protester prepares to throw a firebomb during clashes with Israeli security forces in the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem, on October 9, 2015. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
October 10, 2015, 9:52 am
Palestinian killed in E. Jerusalem after shooting at troops
In Gaza, 7th man dies after border shooting; armed man shot while trying to enter settlement; riots continue in Israeli town of Umm al-Fahm
By TOI staff
Arab community leaders demonstrate against armed violence in their societies, Jerusalem, September 21, 2014. (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
September 21, 2014, 6:42 pm
Arab-Israeli leaders protest against plague of illegal arms
Unlicensed guns will eventually be directed at Jewish society, mayor warns as homicides spike in Arab towns
By Elhanan Miller
Members of the High Follow-up Committee and Arab MKs visit the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, October 2009 (photo credit: Matanya Tausig/Flash90)
July 7, 2014, 7:39 pm
Arab Israeli demonstrations expose political rift
While national Arab parties rile up the youth, mayors and local leaders try to calm things down
By Elhanan Miller
Palestinians clash with Israeli border police during clashes in Wadi Ara, northern Israel , July 5, 2014. (photo credit: Izik Barbi/Flash90)
July 6, 2014, 1:25 am
Rash of violent attacks on Jewish targets in Jerusalem
Clashes continue into night in capital, Galilee; woman attacked in Old City, Palestinians invade yeshiva; firefighters battle blaze sparked by firebomb
By TOI staff
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks with the press before entering the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, June 1, 2014. (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/Flash 90)
July 5, 2014, 12:32 pm
Liberman: Arab Israeli rioters’ place not in Israel
FM says clear message must be sent to ‘those who enjoy Israeli citizenship but act like terrorists’
By TOI staff
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