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Rabbi Dov Lior attends a ceremony honoring late Jewish extremist leader Rabbi Meir Kahane in Jerusalem on November 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 19, 2026, 4:30 pm
Police examine complaint against rabbi’s ruling letting Jews harvest on Palestinian land
Rabbis for Human Rights accuses prominent Religious Zionist Rabbi Dov Lior, 92, of incitement to racism and soliciting theft of property; complaint comes amid surge in settler violence
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of masked people throwing stones in the West Bank village of Yasuf, October 1, 2026. (X: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 1, 2026, 11:05 pm
Palestinian reportedly shot dead by settlers in West Bank amid olive harvest clashes
Violence hits village of Yasuf; police open probe after Palestinians stone Israeli hikers; PA later says settlers killed resident; elsewhere, settlers attack Israeli rights activists, 5 injured
By Nurit Yohanan, Noam Lehmann and AFP
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
Activists with Rabbis for Human Rights help Palestinian olive growers harvest their olives in the West Bank, October 2025. (Courtesy Rabbis for Human Rights)
November 2, 2025, 11:46 pm
2 Jewish-American women banned from Israel for 10 years over olive harvest help incident
Women, along with other activists, were trying to assist Palestinian olive growers with harvest, but were told they were violating a closed military zone order imposed that morning
By Jeremy Sharon
Hundreds take part in an interfaith march for peace in Jerusalem on May 28, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
May 29, 2025, 4:22 am
‘Jerusalem is supposed to be cosmopolitan’: Hundreds attend interfaith peace march in city
Religious leaders and ordinary citizens gather outside Old City as response to unrest during nationalist Flag March and to mark 600 days since Gaza war began
By Rossella Tercatin
US-born Israeli Reform rabbi Arik Ascherman helps Palestinians during the olive harvest at a grove outside Ramallah in the West Bank on November 9, 2023. (Photo by Aris MESSINIS / AFP)
November 13, 2023, 12:00 am
Activist Israeli rabbi helps Palestinian farmers in West Bank facing settler violence
Arik Ascherman of Rabbis for Human Rights condemns Oct. 7 massacre, while saying Israelis ‘not prepared to distinguish between Palestinian terrorists, terrorized Palestinians’
By Agencies
A firefighter douses the flames in an Israeli car after it was allegedly set on fire by Jewish extremists in the West Bank near the outpost of Givat Ronen on January 21, 2022. (Courtesy: Yesh Din)
February 7, 2022, 11:13 am
Police detain 3 suspects over Jewish extremist attack in West Bank
1 suspect arrested, 2 others held over recent violent incident, reportedly attack on left-wing Israeli activists; rights group: ‘Clear deterrence needed toward Jewish terrorists’
By ToI Staff
Hundreds of left-wing Israeli activists arrive to help Palestinians plant trees near the village of Burin in the West Bank, February 4, 2022. (Hamutal Sadot, Rabbis for Human Rights/Courtesy)
February 4, 2022, 3:50 pm
400 Israeli activists plant olive trees near Palestinian West Bank village
Planting event in Burin comes 2 weeks after settler attack against activists; army keeps Jewish extremists away; Palestinian cars, homes vandalized near Nablus in separate incident
By Emanuel Fabian
Illustrative: A Red Cross vehicle in Gaza (Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash90)
October 26, 2021, 5:36 pm
Red Cross says settlers maced personnel in West Bank
Military says it provided first aid to 3 workers, who were surveying damaged Palestinian olive groves near the Yitzhar settlement
By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Residents of the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar clash with security forces during a demolition of an illegal structure on June 25, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)
October 20, 2019, 12:42 pm
Netanyahu, Gantz condemn settler violence against IDF soldiers
Politicians left and right, NGOs decry riot near Yitzhar; PM says there will be ‘no tolerance toward lawbreakers’
By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid
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
Palestinian carry the body of 48-year-old mother of eight, Aisha Rabi, who died of her wounds after the car she was travelling in with her husband was hit by stones, during her funeral in the West Bank village of Biddya, on October 13, 2018. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)
October 13, 2018, 7:29 pm
Shin Bet opens probe as settlers suspected in deadly stoning of Palestinian car
Thousands attend funeral for mother of eight killed when car pelted with rocks; husband says he heard assailants speak Hebrew; Abbas: ‘An ugly crime. It cannot go unpunished’
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
A car belonging to a Palestinian couple is seen after it was involved in a deadly crash reportedly due to stone-throwing by Israeli settlers at the Tapuah Junction in the northern West Bank on October 12, 2018. (Zachariah Sadeh/Rabbis for Human Rights); Aisha Muhammad Talal Rabi (Courtesy)
October 13, 2018, 4:31 am
Palestinian woman dies in W Bank crash allegedly caused by settler rock-throwing
Police open investigation into death of Aisha Muhammad Talal Rabi, 47, who was reportedly in car with husband when stones were thrown, causing him to lose control of vehicle
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Hebrew graffiti reading 'Jews are not silent' found sprayed on the wall of a mosque in Palestinian West Bank village of Krayot, October 10, 2018. (Bashar Karioti,/Rabbis for Human Rights)
October 10, 2018, 2:00 pm
Hate graffiti painted on walls of northern West Bank mosque
Vandals also slash tires in village of Krayot, near Shiloh; Palestinian media report olive trees uprooted in separate incident
By Jacob Magid and Stuart Winer
Trucks are seen at the gate of the Kerem Shalom crossing, the main passage point for goods entering Gaza, in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, on July 17, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)
July 17, 2018, 8:41 pm
Rights groups urge halt to ‘collective punishment’ at Gaza goods crossing
12 organizations call on Israel to resume regular operations at Kerem Shalom, labeling the recent restrictions, imposed after rocket barrage, ‘dangerous, irresponsible’
By ToI Staff
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