Tens of Thousands at the Kotel for Birchas Kohanim
Tens of thousands of Jews visited the Western Wall Monday morning for the traditional Bircahs Kohanim ceremony on Chol HaMoed Pesach.
Tens of thousands of Jews visited the Western Wall Monday morning for the traditional Bircahs Kohanim ceremony on Chol HaMoed Pesach.
“There is no doubt that this was a terror attack,” Jerusalem police commissioner Yoram Halevy said in regards to a bus that exploded today, Monday, in Jerusalem.
A bus has exploded in the heart of Jerusalem, wounding at least 16 people. An Israeli police spokeswoman initially called the blast a terrorist attack, but in an updated statement said it may have begun when an empty bus caught fire, ignited another bus that had passengers aboard.
The month of March has experienced a drastic drop in Palestinian terrorism attacks in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and in Israeli cities within the Green Line, according to IDF data.
More than 24 hours after a terrorist detonated his bomb on one of Istanbul’s busy thoroughfares, it has emerged that Jews were indeed the intended target, as surveillance footage shows the suicide bomber following the group from their hotel all the way to the city center.
Three Israelis were killed and 11 were wounded in a Shabbos morning suicide bombing in Istanbul, Turkey. 36 people in total were wounded in the terror attack.
Amid a horrific day of terror yesterday in Israel, a Palestinian terrorist stabbed and wounded an Orthodox-Jewish man in Petach Tikvah. Despite his injuries, the victim managed to pull the knife from his own neck and kill his attacker with it.
Three Israelis were wounded, at least two of them critically, in separate shooting and stabbing terror attacks that occurred within minutes of each other in Jerusalem and Petah Tikva, respectively. Later in the day, a third terror attack occurred in central Jaffa, with the stabbing of at least three Israelis, one of whom died while being treated at the hospital.
Last night, the IDF launched a dramatic rescue operation to extract two soldiers who accidentally strayed into a Palestinian neighborhood in north Jerusalem, and found themselves in the midst of a massive riot. Five soldiers were injured amid the rescue operation.
Eliav Gellman, a 30-year-old Israeli father of two, died of his wounds on Wednesday afternoon following an attempted terrorist stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank.
An off-duty soldier stabbed to death by young terrorists while shopping Thursday with his wife and baby at a supermarket near Ramallah was laid to rest at the Har Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem.
Two Palestinians armed with knives entered a supermarket near Jerusalem in the West Bank and stabbed two Israeli civilians, killing one and wounding the other, before they were shot and wounded by an Israeli bystander.
Six people were killed when an Egged bus, line 402, traveling from Jerusalem to Bnei Brak crashed into a truck parked on the side of Highway 1 on Sunday evening.
A new bandage invented by Israelis aims to save lives by stopping otherwise unmanageable bleedings in the field and in hospitals.
A Jerusalem court issued a verdict ordering a young Lubavitcher woman to pay some 75,000 shekels after she was sued by her prospective groom for cancelling their wedding just over 2 weeks before it was set to take place.
A 30-year-old Israeli man was moderately wounded in a terror stabbing Tuesday evening at the entrance to the Nave Daniel settlement in the West Bank’s Gush Etzion bloc.
A terrorist stabbed a Jewish woman in a market in an Arab town in southern Israel, seriously wounding her before running away.