A 13-year-old boy who was critically injured in a stabbing by two Palestinian teens is conscious and breathing on his own a week after the attack.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has come to Israel in an effort to tamp down the current wave of violence.
In assigning blame for the recent wave of violence in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has turned to the usual suspects – Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry rejected calls to have an international presence on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and called for agreed-upon steps to calm the current wave of violence.
A friend in Israel writes, “Sometimes we feel as though no one in chul (chutz la’aretz — outside of the land) really understands what is happening here.”
On Saturday, seventeen-year-old Bayan Essiely left her home in the village of Wadi Algrouf near both the Jewish community of Kiryat Arba and the Palestinian city of Hebron
S., the Palestinian events coordinator at one of Jerusalem’s fanciest hotels, speaks perfect Hebrew and has many Israeli Jewish friends.
Approximately 300 Jews and Arabs held hands in a chain in the central Galilee to call for reconciliation amidst the violence in Israel over the past few weeks.
The United States’ ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro, said Washington does not view Israel’s recent actions to curb Palestinian violence as excessive and supports Israel right to defend its citizens.
The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to hold a special meeting on the spate of violence in Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
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