Gilad Shaer

Israeli soldiers are seen near the West Bank settlement of Migdal Oz, on August 8, 2019, after seminary student Dvir Sorek was found stabbed to death outside the settlement. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

August 8, 2019, 10:04 pm

Security forces dismiss suspicion Etzion stabbing attack was failed kidnapping

Investigators find Dvir Sorek, 18, was killed as he was walking back to his seminary by a terrorist who emerged from a car stopped on the side of the road

By Judah Ari Gross

In this July 1, 2014 file photo, family and friends of three Israeli teenagers who were abducted and killed mourn over the grave of Eyal Yifrah, during their funeral in Modi'in. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

August 8, 2019, 5:29 pm

HBO drama looks at killings of teens that ignited Gaza war

Docudrama series starts with Palestinian murder of three Israeli teens in summer of 2014, but focuses on revenge killing of 16-year-old Palestinian

By Agencies

Palestinians look on as Israeli soldiers take part in a house-to-house search operation in the West Bank village of Beit Fajjar near Bethlehem on August 8, 2019, following a stabbing attack. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

August 8, 2019, 3:13 pm

Hamas and Islamic Jihad praise ‘heroic’ West Bank slaying of student

Terror groups stop short of claiming responsibility for killing Dvir Sorek; Islamic Jihad hints attack partially in response to razing of homes near East Jerusalem last month

By Adam Rasgon

IDF troops conduct search operations around the Palestinian village of Beit Fajjar, near Bethlehem, in the West Bank after the body of a soldier with stab wounds was found near the Gush Etzion settlement on August 8, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

August 8, 2019, 11:26 am

IDF raids Palestinian village as troops hunt for terrorists who killed student

Soldiers operating in Beit Fajjar, adjacent to settlement of Migdal Oz, where body of off-duty soldier Dvir Sorek was found; Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group praises attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli security forces at the scene where the body of an off-duty, out-of-uniform Israeli soldier Dvir Sorek, upper-right, 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, 7:45 am

Student found stabbed to death in West Bank terror attack; manhunt launched

IDF searches area around Etzion settlement bloc south of Jerusalem for killer, after body of off-duty soldier who studied at local yeshiva found on side of road

By Judah Ari Gross

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