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The murder of a mob complainant – a reason for outrage

By / December 1, 2020

Shai Bachar never had a chance. The bomb that tore through his car on Friday left him sprawled on the asphalt near the Hod Hasharon railway station, with massive internal injuries and burns across his body. Luckily, his 17-year-old daughter sitting in the passenger seat was only lightly hurt by the shock wave, but her father would be ruled dead shortly after sundown. One witness told Channel 2 that the car bomb which killed the produce vendor sounded like a rocket …

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Scenes from a terror attack

By / December 1, 2020

The first news about the stabbing spree on the Tel Aviv bus Wednesday morning came in like it always does – in a short message on WhatsApp, trailed by a barrage of follow up questions and replies, sending my phone into seizures. Just like that, one moment you’re feeding your infant daughter breakfast and the next you’re taking pictures of blood puddles and paramedics, an avalanche of information piling up around you. Somehow nobody was killed in Wednesday’s attack, but the …

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Police vs politicians on the Temple Mount

By / December 1, 2020

(This post was originally published in the Jerusalem Post weekend magazine on December 4th, 2014) One gets the impression as of late that if left up to the top command of the Israel Police and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), the entire Temple Mount would be sealed off to all visitors, left to gather dust atop the Old City. That’s not possible, of course, as it would entail a radical change in the status quo, and banning access to one …

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The bombs at those other schools

By / December 1, 2020

  No one knows how long the bombs were stashed at the school, but it could have been weeks, maybe longer, that hundreds of kids passed through the school none the wiser. The weapons were stashed in a closet inside a classroom that hadn’t been used for some time. It was a serious haul: 13 mortar shells, three rifles, incendiary flares, and sacks filled with hundreds of rounds of .9mm ammunition. The arsenal was found in Abu Snan only a few …

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On Price Tag attacks, tough talk and weak suggestions

By / December 1, 2020

  Carmi Gillon is not impressed. Following a series of “Price Tag” attacks (acts of vandalism or violence directed at Arabs, often in response to Israeli government policy in the Palestinian Territories) within the Green Line, the former Shin Bet Chief said Israel could stop the attacks if the authorities really wanted to and that like the agency dealt with the Jewish underground when he was in charge, they could do the same if they just had the willpower. “We don’t …

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Terror in Avihayil?

By / December 1, 2020

Yitzhak Algabry didn’t know his life was about to end when he walked into his backyard in Moshav Avihayil in the Sharon one night in October 2012 to grab some bread for a family dinner that was taking place inside the house. Instead, Algabry surprised three burglars from Tulkarm who were hiding in the apartment unit in the back yard. The men began to fight with him, with one bludgeoning him in the head before another stabbed him in the chest …

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‘You only notice us when there’s a rocket or a rape’

By / December 1, 2020

Did you come to see the house that was hit by the rocket?” asked a little Ethiopian-Israeli boy. “The whole world’s already been here,” The child ran off to play soccer in a run-down courtyard nearby and I continued to the site of the attack that claimed the lives of three Israelis two weeks earlier.

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