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Jerusalem violence
Illustrative: Israeli police during clashes with Palestinian protesters in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya on October 24, 2014. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
August 27, 2019, 10:13 am
Two East Jerusalem residents held for pipe bomb attack on cops
Suspects allegedly threw explosive at officers during late-night police raid in Issawiya; bomb failed to detonate, was neutralized by sappers
By TOI staff
A police officer (marked by red circle) fires in the air to scatter several young men attacking a Jewish driver on Salah Ad-Din Street in East Jerusalem, August 11, 2019. (Israel Police video)
August 20, 2019, 3:25 pm
Palestinian teen indicted, 2 men held in Tisha B’Av attack on Jewish driver
Several men seen in Jerusalem video footage smashing car’s windows with rocks, striking Haredi driver, until cop shoots in air to scatter attackers
By TOI staff
View of the Arab neighborhood of Silwan, in East Jerusalem, May 27, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
January 14, 2018, 3:16 pm
East Jerusalem resident accused of assaulting, humiliating Jews
Ahmad Farrukh, 19, indicted for cornering two ultra-Orthodox men with a friend, forcing them to praise Hamas, mock Netanyahu and ‘convert’ to Islam
By Michael Bachner
Palestinians run away from tear gas thrown by police officers outside Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, July 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
July 22, 2017, 2:25 pm
Israeli leaders can still contain Temple Mount crisis, but require political courage
The escalating violence brings to mind the events of September 2000, after opposition leader Sharon visited the Mount, but with a few significant differences
By Avi Issacharoff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (right) meets with Jason Greenblatt, the US president's assistant and special representative for international negotiations, at Abbas's office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 14, 2017. (AFP/Abbas Momani)
March 14, 2017, 1:54 pm
J Street calls on Trump administration to openly back two states
Abbas: Historic peace deal possible under Trump; poll: Most Palestinians skeptical of Trump peace efforts
By TOI staff
An Israeli forensics expert gathers evidence as security forces and emergency personnel gather at the site of a vehicle-ramming attack in Jerusalem on January 8, 2017. (AFP/ MENAHEM KAHANA)
January 8, 2017, 11:40 pm
Security cabinet orders arrests, closure of Jerusalem terrorist’s village
After truck-ramming attack which killed four, police increase presence in Jabel Mukaber, ministers call to destroy family home as soon as possible
By TOI staff
Israeli security forces and emergency personnel gather at the site of a vehicle-ramming attack in Jerusalem on January 8, 2017. (AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)
January 8, 2017, 1:51 pm
4 killed as terrorist plows truck into troops in Jerusalem
16 injured in ramming attack at Armon Hanatziv promenade; attacker, an East Jerusalem man, shot to death
By Judah Ari Gross
Sheikh Raed Salah, center, marches with supporters outside the Jerusalem District Court on October 27, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 14, 2016, 8:10 pm
Imprisoned Islamist leader Raed Salah begins hunger strike
Extremist cleric says he is protesting being denied contact with other inmates at Ramon Prison
By TOI staff
Leader of the banned northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah center, in the Supreme Court in Jerusalem January 26, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 14, 2016, 12:49 am
Imprisoned Islamist leader threatens hunger strike
Raed Salah, 58, serving nine months in prison for celebrating, urging terror attacks, says he plans to protest jail conditions
By TOI staff
An Israeli policeman patrols the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, October 21, 2015. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90, File)
October 26, 2016, 1:14 am
PM: ‘No change yet’ as police suggest limited Temple Mount access for MKs
Year-long ban on politicians visiting the flashpoint site was put in place in bid to quell tensions behind Palestinian terror wave
By Alexander Fulbright and TOI staff
IDF troops in the village of a-Ram, north of Jerusalem, on their way to the family home of a terrorist who killed two Israelis in a shooting spree in Jerusalem earlier in the week, on October 11, 2016. (screen capture of IDF Spokesperson's Unit footage)
October 11, 2016, 10:59 am
IDF shutters candy store owned by Jerusalem gunman’s family
After relatives seen participating in celebrations of Sunday’s deadly terror attack, army welds iron bars to shop entrances
By TOI staff
IDF troops destroy the home of a terrorist who led the October 2015 shooting attack that killed Eitam and Na'ama Henkin, on October 11, 2016. (IDF/Facebook screen capture)
October 11, 2016, 9:57 am
IDF troops destroy home of Henkin murder mastermind
One year after killing that marked start of wave of attacks, Nablus residence of Hamas terrorist Amjad Aliwi sealed up
By TOI staff
Jerusalem resident Levana Malihi, 60, left, and police officer First Sergeant Yosef Kirma, 29, who were shot dead in a terror attack in Jerusalem, October 9, 2016. (Police spokesperson)
October 10, 2016, 12:25 am
Grandma of 6 killed by Palestinian terrorist buried in Jerusalem
Levana Malihi, 60, mother of three, worked for 30 years in the Knesset; remembered as ‘loved by all’
By TOI staff
Jerusalem resident Levana Malihi, 60, left, and police officer First Sergeant Yosef Kirma, 29, who were shot dead in a terror attack in Jerusalem, October 9, 2016. (Police spokesperson)
October 9, 2016, 4:56 pm
Jerusalem shooting victims: A newly married cop and a grandmother
First Sergeant Yosef Kirma, 29, died while charging the terrorist; Levana Malihi, 60, recalled as ‘very warm, loved by all’
By TOI staff
Thousands of Muslims pray in front of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount during the holy month of Ramadan in Jerusalem's Old City, June 26, 2016. (Suliman Khader/Flash90)
September 18, 2016, 11:13 pm
Netanyahu renews ban on MK visits to Temple Mount
Move comes as violence flares up again in West Bank, Jerusalem; Likud’s Yehuda Glick suggests he may violate ban in future
By TOI staff and AFP
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