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Illustrative: A housing complex where Mike Huckabee, who is now the US Ambassador to Israel, laid bricks, in the West Bank settlement of Efrat on August 1, 2018. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel/File)
August 13, 2022, 1:57 am
In 2021, American immigrants again moved to settlements far more than other arrivals
Fresh figures released by Central Bureau of Statistics show roughly one out of every 10 people who arrived to Israel from the US made their way to a West Bank settlement
By Judah Ari Gross
A makeshift gun caught by Israeli troops near the West Bank settlement of Migdal Oz, July 24, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)
July 25, 2022, 11:28 pm
IDF: Palestinian man detained with loaded homemade gun in Gush Etzion
Footage shows suspect hurling molotov cocktail near Migdal Oz, fleeing area; military says he was also carrying fake bomb
By Emanuel Fabian
The scene of a suspected car-ramming attack outside Elazar in the West Bank on August 16, 2019 (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
August 16, 2019, 2:00 pm
2 Israeli teens injured, one of them critically, in West Bank car-ramming attack
Driver shot dead by security forces; wounded treated at the scene next to the Elazar settlement and evacuated to hospitals; doctors fighting to save life of boy, 17
By ToI Staff
Benjamin Netanyahu, center, laying a corrnerstone for new housing units in Beit El, August 8, 2019 (Courtesy: Sharon Revivo/Likud)
August 8, 2019, 12:04 pm
Netanyahu vows to push Israeli sovereignty in West Bank after terror attack
Prime minister lays cornerstone for 650 new housing units in Beit El, says terrorists ‘come to destroy, we come to build’
By Raphael Ahren
Israeli security forces at the scene where the body of an off-duty, out-of-uniform Israeli soldier was found dead with stab wounds, near the settlement of Migdal Oz in the Etzion region, on August 8, 2019. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
August 8, 2019, 9:44 am
Lawmakers blame government policies, push for annexation after student killed
Netanyahu vows to ‘settle accounts’ with off-duty soldier Dvir Sorek’s killer after West Bank stabbing; Liberman blames ‘capitulation’ to Gaza terrorists
By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross
Amit Barlev (L) and Hillel Lalum. (Courtesy)
July 12, 2019, 3:12 pm
Two killed in West Bank car accident days before celebrating 18th birthdays
Medics at crash scene forced to declare deaths of Amit Barlev and Hillel Lalum, who were returning from Dead Sea with a third friend, moderately wounded
By Jacob Magid
Illustrtive photo of a swimming pool (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
June 28, 2019, 12:18 pm
Toddler dies two days after near-drowning in Etzion Bloc pool
Health Ministry launches campaign to raise awareness of safety while bathing, amid two-year rise in drownings of children
By ToI Staff
Snow falls in Efrat in the Gush Etzion settlement block in the West Bank on January 16, 2019. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
January 16, 2019, 10:51 pm
Snow dusts Jerusalem area as winter storm wallops Israel
Capital sees flurry for first time in years, with several roads closed as forecasts predict accumulation of 10 cm in Eztion bloc and other high elevation areas
By 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
Israeli settlers arrive at the Eitam hilltop near Efrat on September 17, 2018 to establish a new neighborhood in response to the murder of Ari Fuld (Eliyahiv Kamchi)
September 26, 2018, 6:30 am
Why some settler leaders oppose building as a direct response to terror attacks
There is lingering concern that calls for construction as a tit-for-tat against terrorism — while politically expedient — imply expansion is less legitimate on other days
By Jacob Magid
The son of Ari Fuld places his hands on his father's body at his funeral in Kfar Etzion on September 17, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)
September 17, 2018, 1:51 am
Thousands attend funeral for terror victim Ari Fuld, who is remembered as a hero
US-born father of four eulogized as someone who battled in word and deed for what he believed in, fought relentlessly for Israel with body and soul
By ToI Staff
Mourners light candles in memory of Ari Fuld, at the site where he was murdered earlier in the day, at the Gush Etzion Junction, September 16, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
September 16, 2018, 11:47 pm
PM consoles terror victim’s family: ‘We are alive thanks to heroes like Ari’
Netanyahu, Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein pay respects to relatives of Ari Fuld, who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian teenager
By ToI Staff
Khalil Jabarin, who fatally stabbed Israeli Ari Fuld in a West Bank terror attack on September 16, 2018 (Screenshot/Twitter)
September 16, 2018, 8:08 pm
Terrorist’s parents say they alerted PA, Israel before deadly stabbing of Fuld
Palestinian official says stabber’s father informed PA forces of son’s disappearance, while IDF says mother told soldiers that her son planned to commit an attack
By Adam Rasgon and Judah Ari Gross
Ari Fuld (Facebook)
September 16, 2018, 6:49 pm
Terror victim Ari Fuld mourned as ‘larger than life’ hero, champion for Israel
Friends, family, students, and ideological opponents eulogize US-born victim’s passion, bravery, and determination
By ToI Staff
An Israeli teen wrapped in an LGBT Pride flag near the settlement of Efrat, June 3, 2018. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)
June 8, 2018, 6:40 am
Gently breaking taboos, a settlement bloc moves gingerly toward LGBT acceptance
In first gathering of its kind in a religious community on either side of Green Line, Efrat event takes unambiguous stance against notion that homosexuality is a matter of choice
By Jacob Magid
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