The fire that engulfed a makeshift West Bank synagogue and destroyed Torah scrolls on Friday was caused by arson, likely by suspects from the nearby Palestinian town of Halhul, an Israeli investigation determined. The scrolls were housed in a tent next to Karmei Tzur that was used as a synagogue and...

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A senior official from Fatah, the party led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, said Europe only paid attention to the conflict in Syria when it impacted the continent directly, and asked whether Palestinians needed to “hijack your planes and destroy your airports again” to make Europeans care about the...

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with the families of terrorists, calling them “martyrs,” hours after Israeli policewoman Hadar Cohen was killed in a Jerusalem terror attack, Ynet reported Thursday. At Abbas’ meeting, the families of 11 dead terrorists asked Abbas to demand that Israel return of the terrorists’ bodies. A video of the meeting was later...

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The expense and effort that the terrorist organization Hamas is putting into building attack tunnels while the Gaza Strip, which it rules, is mired in poverty shows that “the last thing Hamas cares about is the welfare of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,” veteran Palestinian affairs correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh wrote in...

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Thousands of mourners marching at the funeral of a Palestinian Authority police officer who wounded three IDF soldiers during a shooting attack on Sunday chanted “death to Israel” and called for killing hundreds of Israelis, the Times of Israel reported on Monday. “It is time for the machine gun, to...

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The Palestinian Authority’s police force praised an officer who carried out a shooting attack that wounded three Israeli soldiers at a West Bank checkpoint near Beit El on Sunday. “With great pride, the members of the Palestinian police eulogize the brave martyrdom of their colleague, Master Sergeant Amjad Sukkari, ‘Abu Omar’,...

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A Palestinian girl from Nablus with a rare medical condition underwent lifesaving surgery at Rambam hospital in Haifa last week, The Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday. Jummana, 17, suffered from hypophosphatemia, a dangerous condition caused by low phosphate levels that led to extreme pain in her bones. Her treatment was facilitated by...

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Newly released videos from the cellphone of the Arab-Israeli gunman who killed three people during a New Year’s Day rampage in Tel Aviv show the man denigrating “enemies of Islam” and using rhetoric similar to that used by the Islamic State, JNS.org reported Thursday. Nashat Milhem killed two men and injured seven...

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Ongoing incitement from Palestinian schools, media, and political and religious leaders under the watch of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas “positively guarantees” the continuation of anti-Israel violence and terrorism, David Horovitz, founding editor of The Times of Israel, wrote on Tuesday. Horovitz acknowledged that although security cooperation between Israel and...

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The 15-year-old Palestinian accused of killing an Israeli mother of six was incited to violence by Palestinian television programs, the Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security agency, said Sunday. Incitement by Palestinian officials and media has frequently been blamed for the rise in violence against Jews in the last six months....

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