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A water pipeline severed during construction of the security barrier in the northern Jordan Valley, July 2026. (Ilan Volkov/Jordan Valley Activists)
July 16, 2026, 7:28 pm
IDF begins work on Jordan Valley security berm, carving scar through Palestinian farms
Barrier consisting of patrol road and natural obstacle meant to stop smuggling and terror, but locals say it is cutting them off from productive land and could cause $200 million in annual losses
By Nurit Yohanan
A shepherd from the Palestinian herding community of Khallet Makhul in the northern Jordan Valley is detained by soldiers, February 19, 2025. (Courtesy Association of Civil Rights in Israel)
July 9, 2026, 9:17 pm
High Court petition demands protection for West Bank Palestinian herding communities
Petition from 7 northern Jordan Valley villages says extremist settler violence, inability to access water, pasture leaves them on verge of displacement, amounts to ethnic cleansing
By Jeremy Sharon
IDF soldiers confiscate a water tanker belonging to a Palestinian Bedouin herder from the hamlet of al-Farisiya in the Jordan Valley, May 25, 2026. (Courtesy Jordan Valley Peace Activists)
May 28, 2026, 11:10 pm
Palestinian herders file High Court petition against IDF confiscation of water tankers
Motion demands IDF provide for humanitarian needs of residents of West Bank Bedouin hamlet, since they can no longer sustain themselves or their livestock
By Jeremy Sharon
Excavations at the prehistoric site of ‘Ubeidiya in the Jordan Valley, south of the Sea of Galilee, in images shared in April 2024. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)
February 22, 2026, 5:00 pm
New study puts hominins in Israel 1.9 million years ago, rewriting earliest human migration
Team redates prehistoric ‘Ubeidiya in Jordan Valley to same age as oldest Georgian site, suggesting at least two distinct groups of human ancestors left Africa at roughly the same time
By Rossella Tercatin
Route 90, Jordan Valley, October 18, 2025. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
February 17, 2026, 4:39 pm
IDF says Palestinian child killed in West Bank while playing with unexploded ordnance
Palestinian Red Crescent says 13-year-old killed by ‘mine’; army says ammunition exploded as kids handled it in shooting range, troops treated two others hurt in incident
By Emanuel Fabian and AFP
A screen capture of the earthquake alerts activated in several locations in southern Israel as a 4.2-magnitude quake was recorded near Dimona, on January 15, 2026. (Screenshot/Red Alert app)
January 15, 2026, 1:04 pm
4.2-magnitude earthquake recorded in southern Israel; no reports of injuries
Epicenter of quake identified near Dimona, setting off warning sirens and sparking fears of missile attack among some residents amid heightened tensions with Iran
By ToI Staff
Palestinian residents of Ras Ein al-Auja village in the West Bank pack up their belongings and prepare to leave their homes after deciding to flee mounting settler violence, January 11, 2026. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)
January 11, 2026, 7:40 pm
Fleeing settler violence, Palestinians leave one of few remaining Jordan Valley hamlets
Dozens of families from the Bedouin town of Ras Ein el-Auja have already left their homes, and the remaining residents are desperate. ‘Where will we go? There’s nowhere.’
By Julia Frankel
View of the border area between Israel and Jordan, near Hamat Gader, southern Golan Heights, on November 28, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
May 18, 2025, 9:08 pm
Security cabinet approves plan for high-tech security barrier along Jordanian border
Project, slated to begin in June, is expected to take 3 years, cost over $1 billion; plan also calls for ‘mission centers’ in Jordan Valley to boost Israeli presence
By Stav Levaton
A fire burns at the Palestinian village of Bardala, April 24, 2025. (X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 24, 2025, 2:42 pm
Settlers accused of attacking Palestinians, torching buildings in West Bank village
Two people lightly injured by gunfire from Israeli assailants, local resident says, after latest in spate of fiery rampages; no arrests reported
By Nurit Yohanan, Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Archaeologists from Bar Ilan University, in cooperation with the Staff Officer of Archaeology, excavated the site of Sartaba/Alexandrium in the Jordan Valley in February 2025. The excavation’s director Dr. Dvir Raviv from Bar Ilan, points to a column capital on the eastern slope of the hill. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
March 6, 2025, 5:56 am
Jewish rebels and earthquake rubble: New dig aims to solve a pair of historical enigmas
Sartaba/Alexandrium was built by the Hasmoneans and expanded by Herod. A team of archaeologists has launched a first excavation in 40 years to probe the final days of the fortress
By Rossella Tercatin
Archaeologists from Bar-Ilan University, in cooperation with the staff officer of archaeology, excavated the site of Sartaba/Alexandrium in the Jordan Valley in February 2025. (Yodan Flaytman, staff officer for archaeology in Judea and Samaria)
February 12, 2025, 11:09 am
Inscription found in Alexandrium fortress could shed new light on Jewish Revolt
Israeli researchers decipher an ostracon in a grand 1st-century structure in the Jordan Valley that could prove Jewish rebels used the site in their fight against Rome
By Rossella Tercatin
Lawmakers and ministers listen to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he addresses the first plenum session of the Knesset’s winter 2024 legislative session, October 28, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)
January 22, 2025, 6:39 pm
Coalition votes down legislation on state Oct. 7 probe, annexation of Jordan Valley
Ministers express support in principle for annexing part of West Bank but say the process must involve US, and call opposition bill supported by Otzma Yehudit ‘just trolling’
By Sam Sokol
Israeli security forces operate in the town of Sir, near the West Bank city of Jenin, December 1, 2024. (Nasser Ishtayeh/ Flash90)
December 1, 2024, 8:21 pm
IDF drone strike near Jenin kills Hamas terrorist behind deadly Jordan Valley shooting
Another three gunmen killed in strike in town of Sir, northern West Bank; Wael Lahlouh murdered Yonatan Deutsch, wounded another man in August attack
By Emanuel Fabian
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks out over the Jordan Valley on September 11, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
September 11, 2024, 8:51 pm
Visiting Jordan Valley, Netanyahu vows to work with Amman to boost border fence
Days after deadly shooting at Allenby border crossing, PM says ‘stronger barrier’ needed along boundary with Jordan, a project repeatedly promised and scrapped over the years
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Israeli security forces at the scene of a terror shooting attack in the Jordan Valley, on August 11, 2024; inset: Yonatan Deutsch, who was killed in the attack, (Michael Giladi/Flash90; courtesy)
August 11, 2024, 6:32 pm
Civilian killed, another hurt in Jordan Valley terror attack; IDF hunting for shooters
Victim named as Yonatan Deutsch, 23, from Beit She’an; initial probe finds assailants used an assault rifle; troops search for terrorists; wounded man in moderate condition
By Emanuel Fabian
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