Arab citizens of Israel feel tensions
This weekend, Israel’s security services went on high alert as rumors spread that an Israeli soldier had been kidnapped near Israel’s border with Syria.
This weekend, Israel’s security services went on high alert as rumors spread that an Israeli soldier had been kidnapped near Israel’s border with Syria.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at a meeting in Berlin called for an end to incitement to violence against Israelis.
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, not Adolf Hitler, was the architect of the Holocaust which killed six million Jews, Benjamin Netanyahu told an audience at the World Zionist Conference this week.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has come to Israel in an effort to tamp down the current wave of violence.
A deluge of videos posted by Israelis and Palestinians hit social media
Jerusalem quiet; Palestinian stabbing thwarted
Human rights groups allege checkpoints amount to collective punishment
Israelis have become accustomed to dismal news in the past few weeks – mornings and evenings punctuated by stabbings, car attacks and rock throwing.
Officials on both sides are playing down the comparisons of violence to the first and second intifadas.
Heavy clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians continue