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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 593

Beit Jala

A memorial ceremony commemorating the victims of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Tel Aviv on May 3, 2022, as Israel marks the annual Memorial Day for fallen soldiers. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)
May 3, 2022, 11:01 pm
Israelis, Palestinians observe annual joint memorial ceremony, watched by 200,000
At controversial event, grieving families recount stories of lost loved ones and call for peace, end to Israeli ‘occupation’; some coalition lawmakers attend, sparking criticism
By Aaron Boxerman
Illustrative: Arab and Israeli children are seen at the Max Rayne Hand in Hand school for bilingual education in Jerusalem, February 14, 2012. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90/File)
March 9, 2020, 6:43 pm
Jewish Arab school puts some staff, pupils in quarantine, denies total lockdown
After Education Ministry announces entire facility isolated, Max Rayne Hand in Hand School in Jerusalem clarifies only those who visited Bethlehem in past week self-quarantined
By Stuart Winer
A Palestinian Authority policeman delivers supplies to the hotel staff which tested positive to coronavirus to a hotel in Bethlehem, West Bank, March 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
March 8, 2020, 3:42 pm
US Christian pilgrims quarantined near Bethlehem turn to prayer, kinship
‘It’s not a great situation, but we’re trying to make the best of it,’ says Alabama pastor whose group is in isolation in the West Bank
By Josef Federman
A young couple wearing protective masks are greeted upon arrival at Ben Gurion Airport on March 4, 2020 (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)
March 5, 2020, 5:03 pm
Greece says 23 tourists who recently visited Israel sick with COVID-19
Authorities in Athens say group was in Israel, West Bank and Egypt on February 19-27; at West Bank hotel where they stayed, 4 people may be infected
By AFP and Adam Rasgon
Israeli security forces demolish a building near Beit Jala in the West Bank, August 26, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
September 12, 2019, 8:41 pm
Israeli outpost goes up on JNF land where Palestinian buildings were razed
Civil Administration says it’s aware of structures illegally erected at site near Bethlehem just days after demolitions, will remove them ‘in accordance with its priorities”
By Jacob Magid
Israeli security forces demolish a building near Beit Jala in the West Bank, August 26, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
August 27, 2019, 4:55 am
Following pressure from KKL, Israel razes Palestinian buildings near Bethlehem
Family loses court battle to keep its home and restaurant, after subsidiary for land-owning giant comes forward claiming to have purchased the property 50 years ago
By Jacob Magid
Bethlehem's Manger Square on December 24, 2018. (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)
December 25, 2018, 1:49 am
Thousands celebrate Christmas in Bethlehem with waning Christian Palestinians
Community makes up less than 1% of West Bank and Gaza population, according to PA; in past 50 years, thousands have emigrated, Lutheran pastor says
By Adam Rasgon
The Palestinian suspected of carrying out a a stabbing attack in the central West Bank is taken into custody by Border Police officers after turning himself in at the Rachel checkpoint on November 20, 2018. (Border Police)
November 20, 2018, 11:26 pm
Palestinian suspect in West Bank stabbing attack turns himself in
Assailant had fled scene, prompting manhunt, after terror attack; meanwhile, stabber dies after Jerusalem attack last week
By Judah Ari Gross and Jacob Magid
Illustrative. An ambulance belonging to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
November 20, 2018, 4:18 pm
Israeli man lightly injured in West Bank stabbing attack
Police declare assault a terror attack; suspect flees scene south of Jerusalem, prompting manhunt near Palestinian town
By Judah Ari Gross
Balloon with suspected incendiary device found in Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood on July 20, 2018. (Israel Police)
July 20, 2018, 2:34 pm
Two incendiary balloons found in yard of Jerusalem home
Police sappers called to Gilo, in capital’s southeast, to deal with suspicious objects; neighborhood adjoins West Bank
By ToI Staff
Palestinians attack cars of the United States Consulate in the West Bank city of Beit Jala, May 21, 2018. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
May 21, 2018, 9:34 pm
Palestinian crowd pelts US diplomats with eggs in West Bank
State Department condemns protest in Beit Jala against embassy move, says it was ‘clearly intimidation’
By AP
Beit Jala Mayor Nicola Khamis. (Screen capture: YouTube)
April 19, 2018, 1:11 am
Palestinian mayor sparks BDS storm by admitting he works for Israeli company
Social media awash with condemnation and mocking of Beit Jala’s Nicola Khamis for revelation he also works as Tnuva sales rep
By Khaled Abu Toameh
Jerusalem's Greek Orthodox patriarch Theophilos III (C) walks towards the Church of Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on January 6, 2018 to attend a Christmas service according to the Eastern Orthodox calendar. (AFP Photo/Musa Al Shaer)
January 6, 2018, 5:19 pm
Palestinians mark Orthodox Christmas amid protests of land sales
Local authorities call for boycott of celebrations over Church allegedly allowing sales of East Jerusalem properties to groups aiding Jewish settlers
By Saleh Yousef
Still from video released by IDF of arrest of five bomb throwers, November 23, 2017. (Twitter/IDF)
November 23, 2017, 10:43 pm
IDF arrests terrorists who threw bombs at West Bank highway
Five Palestinians admit to throwing explosives onto the tunnel road between Gush Etzion and Jerusalem; no injuries in incidents
By ToI Staff
Paramedics at the site where a woman died on road in the West Bank after she and a man were attacked, October 23, 2016. (MDA spokesperson)
May 1, 2017, 10:57 pm
Palestinian man stabbed outside Jerusalem
Medics treat 28-year-old at the scene, evacuate him to city’s Shaare Zedek hospital with moderate wounds
By ToI Staff
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