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An off-duty IDF servicewoman speaks with Israeli security forces after being extracted from the West Bank city of Jericho, July 10, 2026. (Civil Administration)
July 11, 2026, 2:19 pm
Off-duty IDF soldier, two Israeli women extracted from West Bank’s Jericho
Three women brought out in two separate incidents after entering Palestinian Authority-controlled city that is off limits to Israelis
By Emanuel Fabian
An IDF soldier walks with his weapon on a street during a military raid in the West Bank village of al-Yamun, near Jenin, February 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
February 17, 2026, 8:15 pm
IDF, police nab four ISIS-linked jihadists in West Bank said to plan terror attack
Three suspects arrested last week, then another on Monday in raids on Jericho; separately, commandos detain Palestinian arms dealer in Ramallah
By Emanuel Fabian
An Israeli woman who was extracted from the West Bank city of Jericho is seen next to an officer from Israel's Civil Administration, December 19, 2025. (Courtesy)
December 22, 2025, 11:10 am
Israeli rescued from Jericho abduction says she was threatened with gun, assaulted
Reports say woman told police she was lured to West Bank by man she met online, who she thought was Jewish; woman was extracted by PA forces, returned to Israel
By ToI Staff
An Israeli woman who was extracted from the West Bank city of Jericho is seen next to an officer from the Civil Administration, December 19, 2025. (Courtesy)
December 21, 2025, 1:56 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 21: Day 807 – Rescue of Israeli from Jericho highlights PA-IDF coordination
Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian on an unusual strike on Gaza City, conflicting reports of Hezbollah prowess along the border, and an ISIS terrorist picked up in southern Syria
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian
An Israeli woman who was extracted from the West Bank city of Jericho is seen next to an officer from the Civil Administration, December 19, 2025. (Courtesy)
December 19, 2025, 9:55 pm
PA forces extract Israeli from Jericho who reported being kidnapped
Reports say woman told investigators she was assaulted by group of men at an apartment in the West Bank city after she was brought there unknowingly by a work acquaintance
By Emanuel Fabian
Jewish settlers attack Palestinians during the olive-picking season in the village of Beita, south of Nablus in the West Bank, November 8, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
November 30, 2025, 10:11 pm
Four foreign activists said wounded by settlers near Jericho, one seriously
Three Italians and one Canadian reportedly accosted in Ein al-Duyuk by masked gang, who beat them and steal their passports, wallets and phones
By Noam Lehmann and AFP
Dates harvested from 'Hannah,' the first female palm tree germinated from 2,000 year-old seeds discovered in the Judean desert, are displayed in Kibbutz Ketura in southern Israel, on September 27, 2021. (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)
April 18, 2025, 10:11 am
Friday Focus with Sue Surkes: Israel’s biblical flora resurrected
In honor of this week’s spring holidays, ToI’s environment reporter describes a date palm that was brought back from the dead, a Rose of Jericho plant that resurrects itself and more
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Sue Surkes
Some of a cache of newly discovered Maccabi-era coins, in an image released on December 29, 2024. (Dr. Shai Bar/ Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa)
December 29, 2024, 9:08 pm
‘Miracle’ hoard of Hasmonean coins discovered during Hanukkah in Jordan Valley dig
Haifa University team finds cache of 160 extremely rare coins – dated to 80/79 BCE, during the reign of Judah Maccabee’s grand-nephew – near Alexandrion Fortress, north of Jericho
By Gavriel Fiske
Israeli troops operate in the Aqabat Jabr refugee camp in the West Bank, early March 6, 2023 (Israel Defense Forces)
September 20, 2023, 9:15 am
Palestinian killed during clashes with IDF near Jericho, bringing daily toll to 6
PA health ministry reports death of 19-year-old from Aqabat Jabr, where Israeli forces have carried out numerous raids since February terror shooting by resident of camp
By ToI Staff
Tell es-Sultan in Jericho on September 29, 2011 (Diego Delso via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA)
September 17, 2023, 12:41 pm
UNESCO votes to list ruins near ancient Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine
Israel slams Palestinians’ ‘cynical use of UNESCO’; Jerusalem quit the UN cultural body in 2019 for moves it said were designed to diminish the Jewish connection to the Holy Land
By AP and ToI Staff
Tell es-Sultan in Jericho on September 29, 2011 (Diego Delso via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA)
September 5, 2023, 3:19 pm
UNESCO to vote on Ancient Jericho joining World Heritage list as site in Palestine
UN body, which Israel quit in 2019, to hold vote at Saudi Arabia conference; Likud MK accuses cultural organization of obscuring site’s biblical significance
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Israeli troops operate in the West Bank, early August 15, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 15, 2023, 8:38 am
Police: Undercover officers kill two Palestinian gunmen during raid near Jericho
Border Police say forces entered Aqabat Jabr refugee camp to arrest wanted man; Palestinian gunmen also target IDF post near Yabed for 3rd time in days
By Emanuel Fabian
Illustrative: A policeman holds handcuffs. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
July 31, 2023, 1:00 pm
Palestinian arrested in case of unidentified woman’s body found in Tel Aviv
Man, 47, from Jericho, detained shortly after discovery of ‘totally decayed’ remains in city’s Independence Park
By ToI Staff
Elan Ganeles, who was killed in a terror shooting in the West Bank, February 27, 2023. (Courtesy of Consulate General of Israel in New York)
June 8, 2023, 7:45 pm
IDF to raze home of Palestinian terrorist who killed Israeli-American Elan Ganeles
Military notifies family of Maher Shalloun, indicted for murder over February 27 shooting on West Bank highway, that its home near Jericho is slated for demolition
By Emanuel Fabian
IDF troops operate in the West Bank, May 25, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 25, 2023, 1:56 am
8 Palestinians hurt in IDF raid near Jericho; bus attacker nabbed after 9 months
Gunfire battles in refugee camp close to West Bank city; Palestinian health officials say one seriously injured; no soldiers hurt
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
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