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American photojournalist Heidi Levine lies on a gurney in the emergency room of the government hospital in the city of Ramallah, as she is treated after being attacked by Israeli settlers while photographing Palestinian farmers harvesting their olives in the Palestinian village of Abu Falah on October 16, 2026. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP)
PM says facts still unclear, incident 'disputed'
Settlers beat Palestinians, US journalist in West Bank attacks: ‘They kept kicking me and kicking me’
By Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Heidi Levine says she was saved by flak jacket, helmet in Abu Falah attack, as US embassy and Washington Post slam incident; olive trees and vehicles set on fire near Turmus Ayya; 70-year-old attacked near Birzeit
Chairman of the “Together” party and former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv, June 15, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
June 23, 2026, 12:17 pm
Bennett calls to dismantle illegal settlement outposts, draws right-wing leaders’ ire
Head of Together party stresses he’s ‘in favor of legal settlement in Area C,’ but not on Palestinians’ private land or areas A and B, which are to be part of ‘Palestinian autonomy’
By ToI Staff
The illegal settlement farming outpost of Hesed Olam in the central West Bank where a 'conference of appreciation' for illegal farming outposts was held by the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council, February 2, 2026. (Courtesy, Arutz 7)
February 3, 2026, 5:45 pm
Katz says he and Netanyahu working to legalize 140 West Bank farming outposts
Addressing ‘conference of appreciation’ for the illegal outposts, Katz lauds settler activists as ‘pioneers of our day,’ says they are helping ‘weaken’ Palestinian presence in region
By Jeremy Sharon
Jewish settlers seen at an illegal outpost in the Binyamin area of the central West Bank, December 7, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
December 8, 2025, 7:34 am
Settler activists removed from at least 4 illegal outposts after reported order by PM
Structures said to remain intact at illegal West Bank sites in closed military zones; far-right MK shows up to protest enforcement action, taken amid spike in settler violence
By Jeremy Sharon
Taiwanese Foreign Minister Lin Chia-Lung speaks to reporters in Taipei, Taiwan on November 12, 2025. (AP/Johnson Lai)
November 12, 2025, 9:11 pm
Taiwan’s foreign minister: Closer ties with Israel align with the island’s interests
Comments by Lin Chia-Lung praising Israel and denigrating Palestinian policy are latest sign of warming relations between Taipei and Jerusalem
By AP and ToI Staff
This handout photo shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing an event celebrating the legalization of West Bank settlement outposts, on August 26, 2025. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
August 27, 2025, 10:54 am
‘It began in Gaza and will end in Gaza,’ Netanyahu says at settlement outpost event
PM tells gathering celebrating legalization of West Bank outposts that Israel is ‘deepening roots in the land that has been ours for thousands of years’
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Israeli singer Eden Hasson, judge in 'The Next Star' TV contest, speaks to the media after the final of the show in Neve Ilan, near Jerusalem, January 22, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
August 24, 2025, 9:23 pm
Handful of settlers protest gay singer’s planned concert at music fest in Jerusalem
‘Not the religion I know’: Eden Hasson denounces rabbinical group for citing Judaism in opposing his Tuesday performance
By Michael Horovitz
Two Israeli settlers sit outside the home of a Palestinian family in the West Bank village of Mu'arajat al-Sharqiya after breaking in and forcing the family to flee, on July 3, 2025. (Looking the Occupation in the Eye)
July 3, 2025, 6:12 pm
Last two suspects in settler attack on troops and cops released to house arrest
4 others freed earlier this week as prosecutors struggle to file charges in attack on reservists; activists report fresh attack in Jordan Valley, accuse IDF of willful negligence
By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff
Illustrative: An Etihad Airways plane lands at at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on October 20, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
September 20, 2023, 8:59 pm
Airport Authority: GPS jamming is forcing planes to land using alternative routes
After noise complaints from West Bank settlements, authority cryptically says disruptions likely caused by forces outside the country; Russia was blamed for interference in past
By Michael Horovitz
Buildings under construction in Mishor Adumim, an Israeli industrial zone adjacent to the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, east of Jerusalem, on June 16, 2020. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
February 14, 2021, 9:27 pm
PM agrees to review controversial West Bank waste-to-energy plant plan
Environment minister orders work on Good Samaritan facility in Mishor Adumim frozen, accuses Finance Ministry officials of issuing tender for project behind her back
By Sue Surkes
Firefighters extinguish a blaze in a car during an IDF exercise simulating a rocket attack in the Kfar Adumim settlement in the central West Bank on December 11, 2019. (Judah Ari Gross/The Times of Israel)
December 15, 2019, 7:51 pm
West Bank settlements simulate string of disasters to train for the real thing
In large-scale drill, Binyamin region practices response to a deadly Gaza rocket attack, back-to-back shootings, and a contaminated water supply — all in the span of a few hours
By Judah Ari Gross
Binyamin Regional Council chairman Yisrael Gantz (L) gives an award to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at an inaugural ceremony of a new interchange at the central West Bank settlement of Adam on December 11, 2018. (Yossi Zamir)
May 20, 2019, 11:44 pm
How settler leaders worked to reelect Netanyahu and what they want in return
While they’ve sparred with him in the past, prominent West Bank mayors put aside differences to campaign door-to-door for PM’s Likud party days after his on-air annexation pledge
By Jacob Magid
Route 4370, with a wall dividing Israeli and Palestinian traffic, January 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 10, 2019, 3:47 pm
In first, Israel opens road with wall dividing Israeli and Palestinian traffic
Israel says new route eases traffic, strengthens connection between Jerusalem and settlements; Palestinians say it ’embodies barefaced discrimination’
By ToI Staff
Border Police clear several hundred settler youths who had crammed into a pair of illegally placed mobile homes on the Amona outpost on January 3, 2018. (Binyamin Regional Council)
January 4, 2019, 10:45 am
Situation normal, all fudged up: 10 things to know for January 4
It’s election season, which means the spin cycle is on overdrive, and nobody is safe from the whirring blades of politicking
By Joshua Davidovich
Illustrative: Members of the Israeli security forces remove a caravan that settlers had brought to the former outpost of Amona on January 3, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
January 4, 2019, 1:52 am
Amid criticism, PM claims he told aide to call off Amona evacuation — report
Military secretary Avi Blot blamed after reportedly failing to relay order to halt in time, but some don’t buy story; defense official admits army gave settlers heads-up
By Jacob Magid
Border Police clear several hundred settler youths who had crammed into a pair of illegally placed mobile homes on the Amona outpost on January 3, 2018. (Binyamin Regional Council)
January 3, 2019, 8:33 am
23 police officers, 4 settlers hurt in violent clashes at Amona outpost
Police clear 2 mobile homes installed illegally on West Bank hilltop; 7 demonstrators arrested; hundreds of protesters converge on site; far-right activists say at least 10 hurt
By Jacob Magid
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