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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Minister of Strategic Affairs Yuval Steinitz during the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on October 13, 2013. (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/Flash90)
October 13, 2013, 2:17 pm
After tunnel find, Netanyahu says terror activity on the rise
Comments come after discovery of a passageway leading from Gaza to Israel and a killing in an isolated West Bank vacation village
By Gavriel Fiske and TOI staff
The scene of the Jordan Valley terrorist attack, early on October 11, 2013 (photo credit: Walla news screenshot)
October 11, 2013, 4:16 pm
A new kind of terrorism
The killing of Seraiah Ofer marks the fourth time in a month that Israelis have been targeted by alleged Palestinian terrorists in apparent sporadic, improvised attacks
By Avi Issacharoff
The family of Israeli soldier Staff Sergeant Gal Gabriel Kobi, 20, seen during his funeral in the Haifa military cemetery, on September 23, 2013 (Photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/FLASH90)
October 4, 2013, 1:46 am
Terror attacks up in September, says Shin Bet
Most significant increase in West Bank, with killings of two soldiers in separate incidents
By Lazar Berman
President Shimon Peres visits the Kobi family, whose son Gal was killed in Hebron, September 27 (photo credit: Yosef Avi Yair Engel/Flash90)
October 3, 2013, 10:52 am
Soldier’s killer still at large 10 days later
Security forces suspect lone gunman shot Gal Kobi in Hebron; Peres tells family their son was ‘a true hero’
By Aaron Kalman
Tomer Hazan (photo credit: Facebook)
September 27, 2013, 5:36 am
The cumulative impact of sporadic West Bank terror
Lone Palestinian killers, who murdered two soldiers in past week, present a nightmare challenge for the security forces — to the delight of Hamas and other extremist groups
By Avi Issacharoff
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90/File)
September 24, 2013, 6:53 am
Abbas in New York condemns soldiers’ killings
Speaking at a dinner with Jewish leaders, PA president says idea of a binational state is gaining traction with Palestinians
By Yoel Goldman and JTA
Israeli soldiers carry the flagged wrapped coffin of Staff Sergeant Gabriel Koby, during his funeral at the military cemetery in Haifa ,Israel, Monday, Sept. 23, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)
September 23, 2013, 9:27 pm
Fatah official: Israel responsible for soldier’s death in Hebron
Sgt. Kobi wasn’t ‘on a sightseeing tour’ of the city, says Abbas Zaki; calls decision to reopen Beit Hamachpela as ‘legitimizing aggression’
By Gavriel Fiske and TOI staff
Economy Minister Naftali Bennett (in blue shirt) seen during the funeral of of Israeli soldier Staff Sergeant Gal Gabriel Kobi, 20, in the Haifa military cemetery, on September 23, 2013. (photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/FLASH90)
September 23, 2013, 7:07 pm
Seven ministers call on PM to end prisoner releases
At funeral for slain soldier, Naftali Bennett vows more building in Hebron; Israel to submit complaint to US over PA ‘inaction’
By Lazar Berman
File: Jewish settlers and Israeli border policemen outside of Hebron's Beit Hamachpela in April 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 23, 2013, 4:37 pm
Hot Hebron nights
The killing of another soldier Sunday is not the beginning of an intifada, analysts agree, but things may still heat up in the contested city
By Joshua Davidovich
Gal Gabriel Kobi (photo credit: Facebook)
September 23, 2013, 3:18 pm
Left, right split on response to soldiers’ killings
Coalition members hail PM’s decision to resettle Hebron house, but Yachimovich calls the move ‘irrational appeasement’
By Asher Zeiger
Economy Minister and Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90).
September 23, 2013, 12:56 pm
We’ll act to stop prisoner releases, Bennett says
Minister promises severe punishment for slain soldier’s killer; IDF boosts presence in Hebron as manhunt for gunman continues
By TOI staff
Palestinain Authority Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Malki, March 22, 2011. (screen capture: Youtube/PeresCenter)
September 23, 2013, 11:17 am
Palestinian Authority refrains from condemning soldier killings
EU, US and UN denounce the attacks, Hamas hails them; PA’s foreign minister says they are no reason for Israel to divert from peace process
By Stuart Winer
Israeli soldiers stand near the scene of a shooting in the city of Hebron on September 22, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 23, 2013, 9:22 am
IDF still combing Hebron for sniper who killed soldier
Defense minister vows to apprehend culprits; Netanyahu approves settler return to controversial property in the city
By Stuart Winer and Ilan Ben Zion
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a meeting with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, August 25, 2013. (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)
September 23, 2013, 1:52 am
In wake of soldier’s killing, PM orders resettlement of Hebron house
Netanyahu vows to ‘fight terror with one hand, strengthen settlements with the other;’ Washington condemns slayings as detrimental to peace efforts
By TOI staff
European foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton talks with journalists as she arrives for an informal meeting of EU Ministers for Foreign Affairs at the National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania in Vilnius, Lithuania, Friday, Sept. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
September 23, 2013, 1:03 am
Ashton condemns shooting of IDF soldier in Hebron
EU foreign policy chief urges Israelis and Palestinians to refrain from actions that could undermine peace process
By TOI staff
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