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The widow of Jedan Assad gave birth to a baby boy on March 9, 2015. (photo credit: Courtesy)
March 9, 2015, 7:20 pm
Widow of car-ramming victim gives birth to boy
Son of Jedan Assad to be named for him, four months after the Border Policeman was killed in a Jerusalem attack
By Marissa Newman
Israeli security personnel at the site where an Arab man from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat drove his car into a crowd of people waiting at a Jerusalem Light Rail station, November 5, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 8, 2014, 11:46 am
Palestinian victim of Jerusalem car-ramming attack dies
Two others killed in November 5 incident on light rail; widow says he was handcuffed and his treatment delayed
By Marissa Newman
An Israel Police officer and a Border Policeman in front of the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, November 19, 2014 (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)
December 2, 2014, 3:45 am
Rain and vigilance reduce Jerusalem violence to a simmer
Modified police tactics have sharply reduced the intensity and duration of Palestinian protests, leading some to conclude an intifada is not on the horizon
By Mitch Ginsburg
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Sheikh Muwaffak Tarīf, spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, in Jerusalem on November 26, 2014. (Photo credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO)
November 30, 2014, 5:27 am
PM promises major investment in Druze, Circassian towns
Move comes after Likud MK calls for affirmative action for minorities that serve state
By Lazar Berman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Sheikh Muwaffak Tarīf, spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, in Jerusalem on November 26, 2014. (Photo credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO)
November 27, 2014, 1:52 am
Netanyahu to Druze: You are an organic part of Israeli society
Amid criticism over ‘Jewish state’ bill, PM tells leaders of community Israel will defend their rights, security
By JTA and TOI staff
Police at the site where a large fight broke out between local Muslim and Druze residents in the Abu Snan village in northern Israel, November 15, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)
November 16, 2014, 1:22 pm
Wild, wild western Galilee
A brawl between Muslims and Druze that left over 40 injured makes headlines, as does Lapid’s talk of jumping ship
By Ilan Ben Zion
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon at the Knesset. (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 7, 2014, 8:50 pm
Ya’alon: Jewish visitors to Temple Mount ‘fueling fire’ of incitement
Defense minister joins FM, Sephardi chief rabbi in blasting rightist ministers, MKs for trips to flashpoint site
By TOI staff
Economy Minister and Jewish Home party Naftali Bennett. (Photo credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash 90)
November 7, 2014, 4:42 pm
Rightist MKs hit back at Sephardi chief rabbi for Temple Mount visit ban
Bennett, Feiglin blast Yitzhak Yosef for saying trips by Jews to site provoked recent attacks by terrorists
By Itamar Sharon and TOI staff
Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during the funeral of Shalom Aharon Ba'adani, in Jerusalem on November 7, 2014. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 7, 2014, 12:39 pm
Jews must stop Temple Mount visits, Sephardi chief rabbi says
At funeral of teen killed in terror attack, Yitzhak Yosef says visits only further incitement and violence, blasts ‘fourth-rate rabbis’ who encourage them
By Itamar Sharon and TOI staff
Israeli police and rescue workers inspect the car driven deliberately by a Palestinian man into a crowd of pedestrians in Jerusalem, on November 5, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Gali Tibbon)
November 7, 2014, 8:24 am
Teen wounded in Jerusalem van attack dies
Shalom Ba’adani, 17, succumbs to his injuries and is buried in Jerusalem, raising death toll in Wednesday’s terror attack to 2
By TOI staff
Israeli security personnel at the site where an Arab man from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat drove his car into a crowd of people waiting at a Jerusalem Light Rail station, November 5, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 7, 2014, 1:15 am
Netanyahu orders house demolitions for Jerusalem terrorists
In emergency session on tackling violence in the capital, PM calls for more arrests, additional restraining orders on rioters
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at a Knesset memorial session marking 19 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, November 5,2014. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 6, 2014, 2:50 pm
‘They try to rewrite history’: Full text of Netanyahu’s speech on 19th Rabin anniversary
Yitzhak Rabin said it shortly before his murder, the prime minister tells the Knesset: ‘Jerusalem was ours, it is ours and it will remain so forever’
By Benjamin Netanyahu
Thousands attend the funeral of slain Israeli Border Police officer Jedan Assad, in the northern Druze village of Beit Jann, on November 06, 2014. (Photo credit: FLASH90)
November 6, 2014, 1:51 pm
Thousands attend funeral of slain Border Police officer
Jedan Assad, 38, killed in Jerusalem terror attack, leaves behind a three-year-old son and pregnant wife
By Spencer Ho
Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers near the Gush Etzion Junction, south of Jerusalem, November 5, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
November 6, 2014, 12:07 pm
Driver in car-ramming incident gives himself up
Hamam Mesalmeh turns up at district coordinating office; military sources say ‘attack’ may have been accident
By Stuart Winer
Israeli soldiers are evacuated at the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem after being run over by a Palestinian driver near the West Bank village of Al-Aroub close to the Gush Etzion Junction south of Jerusalem. (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 6, 2014, 11:00 am
Jerusalem hospitals treating 8 injured in attacks
Three terror victims remain in serious condition; the rest have light to moderate injuries from car rammings
By Stuart Winer
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