Gilad Shaer

February 4, 2018, 1:35 pm

Romi Sussman

22 namesakes for murdered teen Gil-ad Shaer

It is no small gift to name your own precious future after someone else’s legacy

Settler leaders attend an event at the Oz Vegaon outpost in Gush Etziyon on July 9, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

July 10, 2017, 6:13 am

At West Bank outpost, settlement-building feted as ‘true Zionist response to terror’

Oz Vegaon, established in response to the 2014 kidnapping and murder of 3 Israeli teens, marks 3rd anniversary since its founding

By Jacob Magid

The body of Hamas terrorist Mazen Faqha is carried by members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, during his funeral in Gaza City on March 25, 2017. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

June 28, 2017, 6:31 pm

Hamas replaces assassinated terror commander — report

Mazen Faqha’s Gaza-based successor is said to have extensive connections in the West Bank

By TOI staff and Avi Issacharoff

$The three kidnapped and murdered teens, from left to right: Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach (photo credit: Courtesy)$

May 18, 2017, 9:39 am

Security forces confiscate cash given to families of 3 teens’ killers

IDF says relatives of perpetrators of 2014 terror attack have received large sums from Hamas to boost their street cred

By TOI staff

Elhai Tehralev, an IDF soldier who was killed in car-ramming attack outside Ofra on April 6, 2017, in a photo dated from 2014. (Facebook)

April 7, 2017, 3:22 pm

An ‘angel’ felled by terror

The Hebrew-language media mourns the loss of Sgt. Elhai Teharlev, 20, who was killed in a West Bank car-ramming attack

By Adiv Sterman

The family of slain soldier Sgt. Elchai Taharlev at Mt Herzl, in Jerusalem on April 06, 2017. (FLASH90)

April 6, 2017, 8:18 pm

Hundreds gather to bury Israeli soldier killed in car-ramming attack

PM, Rivlin send condolences to family of Sgt. Elhai Teharlev, 20; ‘he was an angel,’ his father says

By Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff

Audience members applaud during a Limmud FSU (former Soviet Union) session in footage from a video celebrating ten years of the conference's existence. (Screen capture/YouTube)

March 16, 2017, 9:56 am

Jerusalem Unity Prize going to Limmud and first non-Jewish winner

Prize was developed in 2015 mayor Nir Barkat, along with the Fraenkel, Shaer and Ifrach families in memory of their slain sons

By JTA

Ofir Shaer (second from right) with volunteers and Israeli travelers at Ben Gurion Airport, March 2017. (Courtesy)

March 15, 2017, 3:05 pm

To honor slain sons, families send 1000s of gifts to Diaspora

Families of Gil-ad Shaer, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal Yifrach head to airport with a cadre of volunteers distributing Purim gifts to promote global Jewish unity

By Renee Ghert-Zand

February 28, 2017, 8:47 pm

Amichai Cohen

A bitter failure of Israel’s democracy

The security establishment and government failed a key lesson from the 2006 Lebanon War — and Israelis paid dearly

From left, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former defense minister Moshe Ya'alon and former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz speak at a press conference at the Prime Minister Office, following Operation Protective Edge, on August 27, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

February 28, 2017, 4:00 pm

Blistering Gaza war report scorches Netanyahu, Ya’alon and Gantz over tunnel failures

Comptroller’s long-awaited findings about 2014 operation confirm army was unprepared for Hamas’s tunnels, prime minister failed to keep security cabinet in the loop

By Judah Ari Gross

Hamas terrorist Nael Barghouti waves a green Islamic flag and a Palestinian flag to the crowd after arriving in the West Bank city of Ramallah. after he was released as part of an exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier held by Hamas, October 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

February 24, 2017, 10:05 am

Israel reinstates life term of Hamas prisoner freed in swap

Nael Barghouti, released in Shalit exchange after serving 33 years, to complete life sentence after rearrest in 2014

By Agencies and TOI staff

Ma'aleh video therapy bereaved fathers group. Back row (left to right): Asher Lemann (facilitator), David Cohen, Chanan Ariel, Ofir Shaer, Yosef Baruch Kalangel, Nachum Lemkus. Front row (left to right): Keren Hakak (facilitator), Menachem Assaraf, Shalom Sarel. (Courtesy of Ma'aleh)

January 9, 2017, 3:25 pm

Bereaved Israeli parents cope with loss by getting behind the camera

His own son murdered by Palestinian terrorists, Ofir Shaer plays dad struggling with raising surviving children while keeping memory of dead son alive as part of innovative program

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The new Israel Police chaplain Rabbi Rahamim Berachyahu. (screen capture: YouTube)

October 10, 2016, 7:12 pm

West Bank rabbi tapped as new Israel Police chaplain

Rahamim Berachyahu of Talmon settlement also heads study center for religious police recruits

By Sue Surkes

$The three kidnapped teens, from left to right: Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaar and Naftali Frenkel (Photo credit: Courtesy)$

October 6, 2016, 6:27 pm

HBO to create show on 2014 kidnapping of 3 Israeli teens

10-episode drama to be co-produced with Israel’s Keshet and filmed in Israel next summer

By TOI staff

$Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat with the Families of Eyal Yifrach, Naftali Fraenkel and Gil-ad Shaar announce memorial prize (Photo credit: courtesy)$

April 19, 2016, 7:36 am

Jerusalem soccer team wins ‘unity’ prize

Minister Miri Regev hails Hapoel Katamon’s ‘contribution to coexistence’; award commemorates three teenagers slain in 2014

By Sue Surkes