Israel’s refugee roundups

As visitors flocked last week to an East Jerusalem mourning tent honoring the late Ala Abu Dheim, much of Israel was seized with an uneasy sense that its capital city has an enemy within. Abu Dheim, the deceased, was identified as the shooter in the....

The official Palestinian Authority newspaper has described Ala Abu Dhaim, the terrorist who killed eight Jewish seminary students in a shooting attack at their school nearly two weeks ago, as a "groom." The paper also described his funeral as a......

Funerals are being held for eight Israeli seminary students who were killed when a Palestinian gunman opened fire in a crowded school library. March 7 -- The mourners came in the thousands, sobbing and swaying in prayer as the bodies of eight......

The rabbi was not badly hurt, but the attack is expected to raise tensions. On Sunday, there were clashes in East Jerusalem between Israeli police and stone-throwing Jewish activists. The protesters were attempting to reach the family home of a......

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says the country will continue to build homes in the disputed Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa, rejecting international criticism of the project. He made the announcement during a joint press conference with......

A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli rabbi in Arab East Jerusalem on Tuesday, emergency services said, in an attack likely to further increase already high tensions in the city. The rabbi, 49, was stabbed in the neck but his wounds did not appear to be.....

The man, 49, was stabbed in the neck and sustained moderate injuries. Nationalistic motives are believed to be behind the stabbing. According to an eyewitness, the man attacked is a rabbi at the Ateret Kohanim yeshiva in the Old City, who was......

Jerusalem, March 18 : The top Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met Monday, resuming talks stalled since an Israeli military incursion into the Gaza Strip last month. I sraeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni met with chief Palestinian negotiator......

They were bent on destroying the home of the man responsible for the terrorist attack at Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, and the place and time were printed on announcements pasted up all over the city. In view of this, the unbearable ease with which the......

But it seems that the reasons they are occupied with should be sought not only in the realm of security, but in the political arena as well. Great effort is being made, at any cost, to show a connection between the murderer from Jabel Mukaber and......