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Jewish extremism

Author Yossi Klein Halevi joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for this week's What Matters Now. (Shlomit Bard/Flash90)
August 21, 2026, 11:41 am
Yossi Klein Halevi: Why Jewish extremism is so seductive – and dangerous
The author of ‘Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist’ plumbs his personal experiences to share insight into the psyche of those fringe settlers who are lighting up the West Bank
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Yossi Klein Halevi
Priests gather at the garden of the Basilica of the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor, northern Israel, on August 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
August 14, 2026, 7:02 pm
Israel’s Christians rely on faith and allies as they fear rising harassment
Many Christians, who make up less than 2% of the country’s population, feel the government isn’t doing enough to protect them
By AP
Israeli forces stand in front of the entrance of a Palestinian house besieged by Israeli settlers in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, in the West Bank, on August 14, 2026. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH/AFP)
August 14, 2026, 5:37 pm
US said pushing silent Netanyahu to publicly condemn settler violence in Qusra
Katz says he told IDF to plan transfer of full civilian law enforcement in West Bank to police, which is already largely responsible for the matter; residents say activists were blocked from delivering food on sixth day of siege
By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff
President Isaac Herzog speaks at a ceremony granting the Jerusalem Unity Prize, May 24, 2026. (Screenshot/GPO)
May 24, 2026, 8:04 pm
Herzog slams ‘brutish’ settler violence, appears to pan Ben Gvir over prisoner abuse
President says ‘anarchist mob’ now ‘threatens us all,’ Israel must ‘draw red lines’; far-right minister, responding, says anyone calling Israelis ‘brutes’ is ‘not fit to be president’
By ToI Staff
Shin Bet director David Zini attends the funeral of an Israeli soldier at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, March 27, 2026, (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
April 19, 2026, 10:33 am
On 1st day, Shin Bet chief changed background pic on all agency PCs to Temple Mount – report
Source says move showed ‘messianic’ direction David Zini wants for intelligence agency; after uproar, picture was changed back to agency logo, agents told initial change was accidental
By ToI Staff
Shin Bet director David Zini attends the funeral of an Israeli soldier at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, March 27, 2026, (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
April 11, 2026, 5:58 pm
Shin Bet chief said to downplay Jewish terrorism in West Bank as ‘friction’
Unit tasked with combating attacks reportedly in crisis amid failure to counter surge in violence, as former heads of security forces and settler movement call for urgent action
By ToI Staff
An electronic monitoring bracelet fitted to a Jewish minor, January 5, 2026. (Courtesy of Honenu)
January 6, 2026, 1:46 am
Army OKs tracking bracelets to enforce West Bank restraining orders as settler attacks spike
Move comes after Shin Bet chief reportedly told government that devices would be effective way to limit extremists’ movement in territory; one minor said already tagged
By Stav Levaton
A Jewish extremist assaults Palestinian olive pickers and civil rights activists close to the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, October 19, 2025. (Courtesy Jasper Nathaniel)
November 27, 2025, 4:17 pm
Settler charged with terrorism for beating Palestinian woman unconscious with club
Ariel Dahari indicted for committing two terror-related assaults and damaging a vehicle with racist motive in incidents caught on camera during a West Bank olive harvest
By Charlie Summers
Elisha Yered at the illegal West Bank settlement outpost of Ramat Migron, on September 8, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
November 21, 2025, 11:08 am
Singapore sanctions four Israelis over ‘extreme violence’ against Palestinians
Meir Mordechai Ettinger, Elisha Yered, Ben-Zion Gopstein and Baruch Marzel committed ‘unlawful actions,’ foreign ministry says, as it imposes entry bans, financial penalties
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A candle bearing the portrait of 24-year-old Yulia Chaban, who was killed on the beach in Zikim during Hamas' October 7, 2023, attacks, is left inside a bomb shelter on the beach in the southern Israeli Kibbutz of Zikim, the closest Israeli beach to the Gaza Strip, on October 16, 2025. (Maya Levin / AFP)
November 18, 2025, 2:24 pm
Daily Briefing Nov. 18: Day 774 – Can a governmental probe into Oct. 7 be independent?
Legal and settlements reporter Jeremy Sharon compares the possible commissions of inquiry at the PM’s disposal and weighs in on the demolition of an ‘anarchist’ illegal settlement
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jeremy Sharon
Footage shows a drone hovering over a group of volunteers at a Palestinian West Bank olive harvest on November 4, 2025. After the drone fell on a volunteer, men in IDF fatigues were seen pointing their guns at the volunteers, and one fired into the air. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 4, 2025, 10:24 pm
IDF investigating as video shows man firing in air near West Bank olive harvest volunteers
Man in IDF fatigues opens fire after a drone hits and injures a volunteer helping with Palestinian harvest; non-Orthodox US rabbinic groups, some of whose members were volunteering, denounce ‘radical settlers’
By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff
Ami Popper (photo credit: Facebook/File)
August 31, 2025, 4:18 pm
Herzog may commute sentence for Jewish extremist mass murderer if ceasefire reached
Report says president mulling early release for Ami Popper, who massacred seven Palestinians in 1990, to ‘balance out’ the release of Palestinian killers in a hostage deal
By ToI Staff
David Zini meets with ultra-Orthodox conscripts during a conference at the Glilot Base near Tel Aviv, November 17, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 21, 2025, 10:19 am
Shin Bet said to have warned nominated chief Zini over relative’s West Bank extremism
Report says Jewish Division called general before his nomination by Netanyahu, asked him to reach out to ‘very close relative’ involved in extremism to ‘calm things down’
By ToI Staff
Crowds pressed against the window of Essen New York Deli in an attempt to catch a glimpse of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, April 24, 2025. (Jackie Hajdenberg/ JTA)
April 25, 2025, 8:36 pm
Ben Gvir joins friendly Thursday night cholent in Brooklyn after stirring the pot in NYC
Visiting a kosher deli for the pre-Shabbat tradition of late-night stew, the far-right Israeli minister encounters none of the simmering tension that greeted him in other venues
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Lizzy Savetsky wears a Star of David top ahead of the United Jewish Appeal Generosity Gala in New York City, March 14, 2024. (Courtesy)
February 26, 2025, 11:02 am
Pro-Israel influencer Lizzy Savetsky praises Meir Kahane clip, setting off firestorm
Other pro-Israel voices condemn normalization of extremist rabbi who urged expulsion of Arabs, while calls for mass transfers of Palestinians have moved into the mainstream
By Ben Sales
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