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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 478

Elkana

Right-wing demonstrators protest against the Israeli government's planned judicial overhaul, in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2023. The placard reads: 'The imperative of the hour: Unity!' (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 14, 2023, 6:00 am
At rallies against government, a right-wing anti-overhaul movement takes shape
Some 12,000 people have attended three demonstrations so far by conservatives keen on compromise, organizers say
By Canaan Lidor
An election campaign billboard for the Likud party shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump, facing a road sign directing traffic to the West Bank Israeli settlement of Ofra, north of Ramallah, September 11, 2019 (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
September 13, 2019, 11:41 am
Unable to vote, Palestinians shrug off Israel’s elections
Some West Bank residents even prefer Netanyahu to a center-left government that they say would cloak the same policies in the guise of a peace process
By Agencies
Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz attends the Srugim conference in Jerusalem on September 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 2, 2019, 7:04 pm
Gantz: No 2nd disengagement, the public will decide on any diplomatic deal
Echoing comments made by rival Netanyahu, Blue and White chair says he won’t support unilateral withdrawal; refuses to rule out annexation of settlement blocs
By Raoul Wootliff
File: Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, speaks at a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 5, 2017. (Flash90)
September 1, 2019, 4:54 pm
Abbas blasts Netanyahu’s pledge to extend sovereignty over settlements
Top PLO official Erekat calls on international community to take action against Israel in response to PM’s statement
By Adam Rasgon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting schoolkids in the West Bank settlement of Elkana on the first day of school, September 1, 2019. (Courtesy)
September 1, 2019, 11:19 am
Netanyahu says he will extend ‘Jewish sovereignty’ to all West Bank settlements
As school year starts, PM vows to kids in Elkana there will be ‘no more displacements,’ echoing previous campaign pledges; top Arab MK Odeh: Premier is pushing for ‘war crime’
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
Israel Resilience Party chairman Benny Gantz speaks to Hadashot news in a February 2018 interview aired for the first time on January 3, 2019. (Screen capture/Hadashot news)
January 3, 2019, 6:03 pm
In first political comments, Gantz says certain settlements to remain ‘forever’
In newly released clips from 2018 interview, former IDF chief says he is most concerned by ‘fragmentation’ of Israeli society and the ‘radicalization’ of domestic politics
By Jacob Magid
Police gather at the crime scene in Kafr Qassem where Reuven Schmerling was found murdered, on October 4, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
July 19, 2018, 5:09 pm
Life sentences for Palestinians who murdered their Israeli boss in terror attack
Yousef Kamil and Mohammed Abu al-Rub stabbed and beat Reuven Schmerling to death after he hired them to work in his coal warehouse
By ToI Staff
Police gather at the crime scene in Kafr Qassem where Reuven Schmerling was found murdered, on October 4, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
March 26, 2018, 3:50 am
Palestinians convicted of killing Israeli employer in terror attack
Yousef Kamil and Mohammed Abu al-Rub take plea bargain in October slaying of Rueven Schmerling at coal warehouse in Kafr Kassem
By AFP and ToI Staff
Israeli troops demolish home of a Palestinian suspected of murdering an Israeli man in an October terror attack on December 1, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 1, 2017, 8:47 am
Israel razes home of suspected terrorist charged in October murder
Palestinian, from West Bank city of Qabatiya, allegedly stabbed Reuven Schmerling to death in his Kafr Qassem warehouse
By Judah Ari Gross
Reuven Schmerling, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Elkana, who was murdered and his body discovered in a storage facility in the Israeli Arab town of Kafr Qassem, October 4, 2017. (Courtesy)
October 29, 2017, 2:00 pm
2 Palestinians indicted for terror slaying of Israeli man
Suspects stabbed Reuven Schmerling to ‘avenge’ their friend, who was killed while attempting a terror attack, Shin Bet says
By Judah Ari Gross
Reuven Schmerling, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Elkana, who was murdered and his body discovered in a storage facility in the Israeli Arab town of Kafr Qassem, October 4, 2017. (Courtesy)
October 26, 2017, 8:53 am
IDF to raze home of terrorist who killed Reuven Schmerling
Palestinian suspect, from West Bank city of Qabatiya, allegedly stabbed Elkana resident to death in Kafr Qassem
By ToI Staff
President Reuven Rivlin (3rd-R) visits the family of Reuven Schmerling, who was murdered in a terror attack, as it sits shiva, on October 15, 2017. (Mark Neyman/GPO)
October 15, 2017, 4:45 pm
Jewish man murdered in Arab city recognized as terror victim
President Rivlin visits family of Reuven Schmerling, who was found dead in a storage unit belonging to his business earlier this month
By Alexander Fulbright
Police gather at the crime scene in Kafr Qassem where Reuven Schmerling was found murdered, on October 4, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
October 8, 2017, 6:10 pm
Shin Bet: Murder of Jewish man in Arab city was terrorism, 2 arrested
Security agency says Palestinians held on suspicion of killing Reuven Schmerling; Elkana settlement applauds terror designation
By Alexander Fulbright
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan speaks at the funeral of Israeli Druze police officer Kamil Shnaan in the northern village of Hurfeish, July 14, 2017. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)
October 8, 2017, 1:05 pm
Police minister says Reuven Schmerling murder is apparently terror
Gilad Erdan agrees with assessment Jewish man found killed in Kafr Qassem was victim of nationalistically motivated attack
By Raoul Wootliff
Police at the scene where Reuven Schmerling from the settlement of Elkana was found dead at the industrial zone in Kafr Qassem, October 4, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
October 7, 2017, 9:32 pm
‘Growing assessment’ Reuven Schmerling murder was nationalistically motivated
New developments in case, under gag order, suggest Jewish man found killed in Kafr Qassem was victim of terror, Hebrew media reports
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
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