Ma’ale Adumim

Ma'ale Adumim

April 10, 2019, 5:07 pm

Palestinian bus passenger attempts to stab guards at checkpoint; no injuries

Woman draws knife during security check before being subdued by officers, police say

By TOI staff

Avraham Matsliah, 49, from Ma'ale Adumim, was killed in the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight near Addis Ababa on March 10, 2019. (Facebook)

March 11, 2019, 10:46 pm

Israeli killed in Ethiopian Airlines crash identified as Ma’ale Adumim father

Avraham Matzliah, 49, remembered as ‘a wonderful father and a funny man’; second Israeli victim yet to be publicly identified

By Agencies and TOI staff

A visitor swims in the Ein Fawwar pool in the Judean Hills. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

November 3, 2018, 8:03 am

Ancient springs and stunning vistas: A desert day trip just outside Jerusalem

Biblical history and vibrant nature abound in the Judean hills, where visitors can bathe in an ancient oasis and walk in the footsteps of the Good Samaritan

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Rena Rossner, author of 'The Sisters of the Winter Wood,' September 20, 2018, in the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim in the West Bank. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

September 23, 2018, 4:17 am

Book world’s hot new fantasy author is an Orthodox Jew with a magical shtetl

Judaism is the jumping off point for Rena Rossner’s ‘The Sisters of the Winter Wood,’ a Yiddish-inflected retelling of Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Palestinian protesters chant slogans and confront Israeli forces on September 14, 2018, as they demonstrate against the blocking of the road leading to the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank. (AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)

September 16, 2018, 10:43 am

Slated for demolition, Bedouin village turns to Europe as last hope

Activists, residents wait to see if international outcry will prevent razing of West Bank hamlet located in area earmarked for Israeli development

By Mohammed Daraghmeh and Josef Federman

Israeli medics treat a man suspected of trying to stab someone at a West Bank gas station on April 8, 2018. (Magen David Adom)

April 8, 2018, 1:56 pm

Police: Palestinian tries to stab Israeli at West Bank gas station, is shot

No Israelis injured as suspect attempts to carry out attack outside Ma’ale Adumim settlement; would-be stabber critically wounded

By Judah Ari Gross

Bedouin students arrive at school at Khan al-Ahmar, near the Kfar Adumim settlement in the West Bank on September 2, 2016. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

March 9, 2018, 6:41 am

Unwanted by Israel and the PA, Bedouin have nowhere to go but ‘up in the air’

The Jahalin clan’s central West Bank village is about to be demolished by security forces, and its residents are caught in the power struggle between Jerusalem and Ramallah

By Jacob Magid

Natalie Portman speaks to the 500,000 strong crowd during the Women's Rally in Los Angeles, California on January 20, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Mark RALSTON)

January 21, 2018, 6:09 pm

Portman tells Women’s March she felt ‘unsafe’ as a child actress

Actress decries sexualization of women and girls; pro-Palestinian groups boycott event over Scarlett Johansson’s participation

By TOI staff and JTA

View of neighborhoods in Ma'ale Adumim, near Jerusalem, October 3, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

January 15, 2018, 6:17 pm

Palestinians arrested outside West Bank settlement with gun, ammo

In separate case, soldiers nab suspect with a homemade firearm believed to have shot at a highway near the Alfei Menashe settlement

By Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff

Illustrative: Palestinians try to retrieve items from the rubble of a house after it was destroyed by IDF tractors near the West Bank village of Sussiya in 2011. (Najeh Hashlamoun/ Flash90)

January 11, 2018, 12:34 am

Hundreds of US Jewish clergy urge Netanyahu not to demolish Palestinian village

J-Street initiated letter calls on PM to allow residents of Susya to remain in homes deemed illegal by Israeli authorities

By JTA

Illustrative: An IDF soldier sits in a military court. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

December 24, 2017, 10:13 pm

Police officer indicted for urinating on Palestinian prisoner

Yaakov Ben Nissim Cohen charged with abuse of blindfolded, handcuffed detainee in 2007, after High Court overturns decision to close case

By Judah Ari Gross

Khalid Muhamra, left, Younis Ayash Musa Zayn, center, and Muhammad Muhamra, right, sit behind a glass window during their indictment in a Tel Aviv District Court on July 4, 2016. (Flash90)

November 29, 2017, 2:05 pm

Terrorists get life sentences for shooting rampage in Tel Aviv’s Sarona market

Court also orders each to pay NIS 2.6m in restitution; separately, Palestinian assailant gets 30 years for Ma’ale Adumim ax attack

By TOI staff

Illustrative: Residents of the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al Hiran walk to their homes after a protest against the town's demolition, on August 27, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

November 17, 2017, 8:17 pm

IDF issues evacuation order for Bedouin village near major settlement

Notice found lying on the ground Thursday gives residents of Jabal al-Baba eight days to evacuate sensitive E-1 area between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim

By Jacob Magid

A view of construction in the West Bank settlement of Efrat on January 26, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

October 29, 2017, 12:48 am

Controversial bill on absorbing settlements into Jerusalem delayed

Move needs ‘diplomatic preparation,’ official says, indicating Netanyahu wants to discuss gambit with US administration

By TOI staff and AFP

File: MK Moshe Gafni, right, and then-health minister Yaakov Litzman in the Knesset, September 6, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

October 26, 2017, 5:04 pm

Ultra-Orthodox UTJ threatens to torpedo ‘Greater Jerusalem’ bill

Party heads said to fear planned expansion of municipal borders will dilute religious voting power and lessen chance of controlling city hall

By TOI staff