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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 346

Nazareth Illit

View of the majority Jewish city of Nazareth-Illit, now called Nof Hagalil, built alongside Arab Nazareth, on August 10, 2015. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90/File)
June 21, 2019, 7:22 pm
Nazareth Illit changes name to end confusion with Jesus’ hometown
Residents vote to rename northern city to Nof Hagalil after push by new mayor, who says community needs ‘independent identity’
By ToI Staff
A lesbian couple hold hands during the annual Gay Pride rally, on June 8, 2007 Tel Aviv. (David Silverman/Getty Images via JTA)
June 15, 2019, 6:40 pm
Male couple refused entry to restaurant ‘because a couple is a man and woman’
Eatery in Nazareth Illit sorry for incident which coincides with Pride weekend, says it respects gay community; LGBT group says discrimination clear reminder the fight continues
By ToI Staff
View of the majority Jewish city of Nazareth-Illit, now called Nof Hagalil, built alongside Arab Nazareth, on August 10, 2015. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90/File)
November 5, 2018, 8:49 pm
Nazareth Illit seeks new name to end ‘confusion’ with Jesus’ hometown
61 years after it was founded by Ben Gurion, northern town says it will break free of its neighbor, the largest Arab city in Israel
By ToI Staff
Israeli soldiers at the Syrian ceasefire line in the Golan Heights are seen, October 31, 1973, after sudden cold, rain and fog hit them. Female soldier is radio operator Zehava Mizrachi. Other soldiers are unidentified. (AP Photo)
September 18, 2018, 10:40 am
The Yom Kippur War: When Israel’s Arabs didn’t rise up
At a traffic circle near Nazareth, I saw tables with soft drinks, sandwiches, cakes — set up for the troops. There were scenes like this nationwide, but here the women were Arabs
By Abraham Rabinovich
10-year-old Oshri Bitau at his new piano in the family's Nazareth Illit home, July 15, 2018. (Hadashot screen capture)
July 16, 2018, 12:54 pm
Child prodigy gets a new piano — from a former PM
Oshri Bitau, 10, from Nazareth Illit, has a rare talent for the piano, but his family couldn’t afford one. That’s when ex-premier and lifelong amateur pianist Ehud Barak stepped in
By ToI Staff
Tova Orlero shows the wounds she sustained in an assault by a man she honked at in the northern city of Afula on June 29, 2018. (Screen capture: Channel 10)
July 1, 2018, 3:15 am
Man arrested for assaulting woman who honked at him
Police detain suspect as he tries to flee Israel following road rage incident in Afula; thought to have attacked second female driver as well
By ToI Staff
Israeli actress Gal Gadot signs autographs and greets fans during the Latin American premiere of the film 'Wonder Woman' in Mexico City, May 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)
January 16, 2018, 4:44 pm
Nazareth Illit names cinema for ‘Wonder Woman’ Gadot
Municipal officials say new Gal Cinema will offer ‘a message for our young people’ that dreams can be achieved
By AFP
Rabbis from T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, carry a pop-up sukkah in a demonstration for immigrants’ rights outside the Trump Tower in New York, October 9, 2017. (Courtesy of T’ruah)
October 11, 2017, 4:34 am
5 sukkahs that double as progressive spaces
A sukkah in a mosque aimed at helping Syrian refugees and four others being used to build bridges, break stereotypes and spark change
By Josefin Dolsten
Clown mask and plastic gun confiscated from teenager in Nazareth Illit, October 6, 2017. (Israel police)
October 6, 2017, 12:52 pm
Several armed teens arrested as Israel’s clown menace continues
In Jerusalem, Nazareth Illit and central Israel youths detained with masks or weapons for defense against clown threats
By ToI Staff
The entrance to a supermarket in the northern city of Migdal Haemek, where a female employee at the store was crushed to death by the electronic gate on August 25, 2017. (Screen capture: Channel 2)
August 25, 2017, 10:37 am
Woman crushed to death by electronic gate
57-year-old killed in northern Israel while on her way to work; baby badly injured in car crash on Route 4
By ToI Staff
Members of the “Bnei Menashe” Jewish community in Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram, India, on their way to the airport, February 12, 2017. (Shavei Israel)
February 14, 2017, 5:35 am
‘After 27 centuries of exile,’ 102 Indian Bnei Menashe head to Israel
Members of ‘lost tribe,’ to arrive Tuesday and Thursday, will join community in Nazareth Illit
By Josefin Dolsten
A view of the Northern Arab-Israeli city of Nazareth, on January 26, 2016 (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)
December 4, 2016, 3:03 pm
Man charged with murder in missing pregnant wife case
Nazareth resident accused of killing spouse and hiding her body, then telling police she had been kidnapped
By ToI Staff
The scene of a deadly car crash in the lower Galilee region, December 4, 2016. (Magen David Adom)
December 4, 2016, 8:21 am
High-speed crash in Lower Galilee leaves 3 dead, 5 injured
Toddler evacuated by helicopter to hospital with serious head injury; fatalities bring national road deaths to 336 in 2016
By ToI Staff
Shimon Gapso, at the time mayor of Nazareth Illit, October 30, 2013. (photo credit: Flash 90)
October 18, 2016, 3:04 pm
Former Nazareth Illit mayor released from prison
Shimon Gapso, freed after serving most of 6-month sentence for bribery, now barred from returning to politics for 7 years
By Raoul Wootliff
A Facebook post on the account of a Palestinian man living in Nazareth Illit praising the actions of suicide attackers. (Israel Police)
October 13, 2016, 10:56 am
Nazareth resident arrested for Facebook incitement
Palestinian man living in northern Israel posts images of suicide bombers alongside photos of himself holding a rifle
By ToI Staff
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