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(From L-R) Shahar Glick, Shaun Vetshtein, Noam Hasson, Ayala Englander, Shay Nahum and Ofri Sela in the West Bank settlement of Peduel on July 18, 2018. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)
Their parents settled the West Bank for ideology. They’re staying for the vibes
By Jacob Magid
While a group of Israeli teens offer varying views on Palestinians and peace, they agree that life over the Green Line is more defined by hitchhiking than terror attacks
Woman killed in West Bank hit-and-run named as 42-year-old Russian immigrant
By TOI staff and Jacob Magid
Scene where a 78-year-old man died while rappelling near Karnei Shomron in northern Israel on August 17, 2018. (Magen David Adom)
August 17, 2018, 2:24 pm
78-year-old man falls to death while rappelling in West Bank
Rope said to have snapped, causing grandfather to plunge 15-20 meters during trip near Karnei Shomron with group including his grandson
By TOI staff
(From L-R) Shahar Glick, Shaun Vetshtein, Noam Hasson, Ayala Englander, Shay Nahum and Ofri Sela in the West Bank settlement of Peduel on July 18, 2018. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)
August 17, 2018, 11:43 am
Their parents settled the West Bank for ideology. They’re staying for the vibes
While a group of Israeli teens offer varying views on Palestinians and peace, they agree that life over the Green Line is more defined by hitchhiking than terror attacks
By Jacob Magid
Hava Rozen. (Courtesy)
August 17, 2018, 9:53 am
Woman killed in West Bank hit-and-run named as 42-year-old Russian immigrant
IDF preliminary investigation finds it 'highly likely' Palestinian driver, who turned himself in to PA police afterwards, hit Hava Roizen by accident
By TOI staff and Jacob Magid
Soldiers and paramedics are seen at the scene where an Israeli woman was run over and killed by a Palestinian driver, near the northern West Bank settlement outpost of Havat Gilad on August 16, 2018. (Roi Hadi/Samaria Regional Council)
August 16, 2018, 11:10 pm
Israeli woman killed by Palestinian car in West Bank; driver turns self in to PA
Man tells Palestinian police he hit victim by accident and fled in fear; military sources say hit-and-run likely but don't rule out terror; settler leader insists it was attack
By Alexander Fulbright, Jacob Magid and Adam Rasgon
Taleb Jubran, director of the department of tourism and antiquities in Hebron, points to an ancient burial site from the Roman-era which was discovered during construction of a new road in the southern West Bank village of Idna on August 16, 2018. (AFP Photo/Hazem Bader)
August 16, 2018, 8:45 pm
Ancient Roman-era tombs discovered in West Bank village
Director of Palestinian antiquities department in Hebron says bones, pottery found among the graves carved into stone
By AFP
(From L-R) Likud MK Yehudah Glick, US Ambassador David Friedman and Har Hebron Regional Council chairman Yohai Damari at the US Embassy in Jerusalem on August 15, 2018. (Har Hebron Regional Council)
August 16, 2018, 5:20 pm
US ambassador tells Israeli MK ‘no reason to evacuate settlements’ in peace deal
Yehudah Glick says remark was made by David Friedman during sit-down at Jerusalem embassy, as settler leaders presented him with Israeli-Palestinian economic ventures
By Jacob Magid
PA President Mahmoud Abbas delivering a speech on August 15, 2018. (WAFA)
August 15, 2018, 10:26 pm
Abbas says Hamas not serious about unity, US lying about Gaza
In brief televised remarks, PA leader says Ramallah wants to unify the West Bank and Gaza under 'one government, one law and one legitimate force without militias'
By Adam Rasgon
Israeli soldiers confiscate machinery from a suspected gun manufacturing workshop in the village of Yatta in the southern West Bank on August 14, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 15, 2018, 2:42 pm
Israeli forces arrest Palestinian man who filmed IDF troops, citing ‘incitement’
Palestinian media identifies individual as reporter for PA-run Palestine TV
By Adam Rasgon
A Palestinian postal worker sifts through sacks of previously undelivered mail dating as far back as 2010, which has been withheld by Israel, at the central international exchange post office in the city of Jericho in the West Bank on August 14, 2018. (AFP / ABBAS MOMANI)
August 15, 2018, 6:12 am
Palestinians scramble to deliver 10 tons of mail blocked by Israel for years
Packages, letters and even a wheelchair previously stuck in Jordan transferred to PA in one-time deal; postal workers expected to take two weeks to sift through everything
By Hossam Ezzedine
The Israeli settlement of Elon Moreh as seen from the northern West Bank city of Nablus on December 7, 2016. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
August 14, 2018, 3:29 pm
IDF: Soldiers nab 3 Palestinians with pipe bombs near West Bank settlement
In separate case, 2 explosive devices are thrown at the Rachel's Tomb holy site in Bethlehem
By Judah Ari Gross
Israeli soldiers conduct a raid in the southern West Bank on August 14, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 14, 2018, 12:40 pm
IDF arrests 21 Palestinians, seizes suspected gunsmith tools
Military begins preparations to destroy home of Palestinian man who killed soldier by dropping stone slab on his head
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: Palestinian workers try to remove scrap iron from an illegal garbage dump near the West Bank city of Ramallah. October 27, 2011. (Issam Rimawi/FLASH90)
August 13, 2018, 6:59 pm
Israel said to nix German plan for garbage dump to be used only by Palestinians
Despite previous approval for landfill to serve Ramallah district, Environment Ministry reportedly now insists site must also be available to settlers
By TOI staff
Israeli soldiers post a demolition notice on the home of a Palestinian terrorist from the West Bank village of Kobar who stabbed to death an Israeli man last month, on August 13, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 13, 2018, 8:16 am
IDF gives home demolition notice to family of terrorist who killed Yotam Ovadia
In overnight West Bank raids, soldiers also arrest 11 Palestinian suspects, seize guns, and 'terror funds'
By Judah Ari Gross
An employee of the Palestinian health ministry checks the Beit Hanoun hospital in the northern Gaza Strip after it stopped its services on January 29, 2018, after it ran out of fuel. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
August 13, 2018, 2:44 am
Amid major shortage, PA orders cancer drugs be sent to Gaza
Forty-five of 60 chemotherapy medications needed at a hospital in the Gaza Strip were out of stock as of Monday, according to a medical official in the coastal enclave
By Adam Rasgon
Palestinian youths play volleyball as the sun sets in Gaza City, on April 26, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED
August 12, 2018, 2:29 pm
Over half of Palestinian college graduates are unemployed, report finds
37.8% and 72% of male and female graduates, respectively, did not have jobs in 2017; nearly 70% of those who pursued education degrees unemployed
By Adam Rasgon
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