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Palestinian farmer Mahmoud Abu Shinar stands next to destroyed olive trees, near the West Bank village of Turmus Aya, north of Ramallah, on October 22, 2018. (Abbas Momani/AFP)
November 9, 2018, 10:04 am
Olive tree sabotage plagues Palestinian farmers
Extremist settlers seen as prime culprits in rampant vandalism throughout West Bank, with some 7,000 trees said cut down since start of 2018
By Joe Dyke
Olive trees found maimed in the Palestinian village of Al-Mughayyir, on October 14, 2018. (Yesh Din)
October 14, 2018, 8:47 pm
Settlers accused of targeting Palestinian olive trees as harvest kicks off
In coordination with IDF, farmers from four different West Bank villages arrive at fields to find crops stolen or damaged
By Jacob Magid
Grape vines from a West Bank Palestinian vineyard destroyed in an apparent hate crime on May 22, 2018, (Halhul municipality)
May 22, 2018, 11:28 pm
Hundreds of Palestinian grapevines destroyed in second incident in week
Some two acres of vines destroyed north of Hebron, near site of similar vandalism last week
By Jacob Magid
A Palestinian vineyard near Hebron where some 400 grape vines were chopped down in an apparent hate crime attack on May 16, 2018. (B'Tselem)
May 16, 2018, 4:42 pm
In apparent hate crime attack, 400 grapevines destroyed in Palestinian vineyard
A boulder with spray-painted Hebrew phrase ‘we will reach every place’ also found at scene near Hebron
By Jacob Magid
One of the 15 olive trees chopped down in the northern West Bank village of Urif in an apparent hate crime on April 28, 2018. (Urif Municipality)
April 29, 2018, 12:36 am
Olive trees cut down in second attack on Palestinian village in as many days
On Friday, two vehicles were damaged in same village — Urif, in the northern West Bank
By Jacob Magid
'Death to Arabs' spray painted on the wall of a building in the West Bank Arab village of Urif in an apparent price tag attack on April 18, 2018. (Rabbis for Human Rights)
April 18, 2018, 5:40 pm
Palestinian village vandalized, trees cut down in apparent hate attack
Over two dozen olive trees destroyed, ‘Death to Arabs’ and ‘Drive them out’ spray painted on walls in West Bank’s Urif
By Jacob Magid
An olive tree outside the Palestinian village of Hawara that was uprooted by settlers from nearby Yitzhar on January 13, 2018. (Zacharia Sadeh/Rabbis for Human Rights)
January 14, 2018, 8:24 am
Settlers filmed destroying 100 Palestinian olive trees as IDF appears to look on
Army says it dispersed Israelis who have been involved in eight such attacks since drive-by killing of rabbi by Palestinian terrorists
By Jacob Magid
An Israeli settler assaults rabbi-activist Arik Ascherman who was accompanying a group of Palestinian farmers to their fields near Nablus on October 23, 2015. (Screen capture/ YouTube)
December 18, 2017, 12:24 am
Community service for settler teen who attacked activist rabbi at knifepoint
Judge ignores State Attorney’s call for 6-month prison term for beating of Rabbis for Human Rights head Arik Ascherman, who asked that his assaulter not be jailed
By Jacob Magid
Naomi Chazan
October 23, 2017, 12:53 pm
Naomi Chazan
In the hopes of a plentiful olive harvest
With Hamas and the PA reconciled, Israel can finally talk peace with the whole Palestinian population, but isn’t
Israeli settlers pictured uprooting Palestinian olive trees adjacent to the village of Kalil on September 15, 2017. (Courtesy: Yesh Din)
September 15, 2017, 10:59 pm
For 3rd time in a week, settlers uproot Palestinian olive trees
Israeli rights group says 12 trees in fields belonging to Palestinian farmers from the village of Kalil were found destroyed Friday
By Jacob Magid
One of the olive trees in the Palestinian village of Burin that was uprooted by Israeli settlers on September 13, 2017. Spray-painted on the trunk is the Hebrew for "administrative" in reference to the administrative orders issued against hilltop youth. (Courtesy)
September 14, 2017, 9:50 pm
Settlers uproot olive trees in village south of Nablus, Palestinians say
Locals find Hebrew graffiti spray-painted on several trees, referencing recent steps taken by Defense Ministry against hilltop youth
By Jacob Magid
Olive trees outside the Palestinian village of Burin, which were burned by settlers from Yitzhar on June 28, 2017. (Courtesy: Yesh Din)
June 28, 2017, 9:23 pm
Army says Palestinian olive grove torched by West Bank settlers
Burin residents say over 400 trees burned; suspects from nearby Yitzhar settlement flee scene before security forces arrive
By Jacob Magid
Palestinian olive farmers check damage to their olive trees that were allegedly cut down by Israeli settlers in October 2013. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
August 10, 2016, 6:51 pm
Israel uproots 400 olive trees in West Bank village
Defense Ministry says Palestinian had encroached on state land, failed to prove ownership of the property
By Judah Ari Gross
Friends and family carry the bodies of Naama and Eitam Henkin during their funeral at Har HaMenuchot Cemetery in Jerusalem, October 2, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 29, 2016, 9:19 am
TOI talks: Twenty-nine Israelis and counting
On this week’s episode: Tallying the terror victims; Iranian elections and funding Palestinian terrorists; UK’s David Cameron vs. Jerusalem; and supporting LGBTQ rights on Monday, opposing them on Tuesday
By Raoul Wootliff
The pond at the Fountain of Youth ranch is used for swimming most of the year and as a meeting point for the local animals (Courtesy Aviad Bar-Ness)
January 24, 2016, 11:25 pm
The accidental desert crowdsourcing pioneers
The Klingers had intended to exchange their urban professions for Golan agriculture. Instead they built a Fountain of Youth on an ancient Nabatean route in the Negev
By Jessica Steinberg
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