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A United Nations worker tasked with monitoring Palestinian workplace rights was injured by Palestinian rock-throwers on Friday, The Times of Israel reported. Mounir Kleibo, who heads the UN bureau of the International Labor Organization in the Palestinian Territories, sustained serious injuries to his jaw after coming under attack by Palestinian rock throwers in...

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Here is the Facebook profile icon for UNRWA worker Sohaib Fayyad, who lives in Khan Younis: Fayyad, who is linking to lots of anti-Israel videos from Shehab News Agency and others, is clearly advocating that Arabs stab Jews. His main profile image shows rock throwing as well, associating it with...

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The mayor of Nazareth, Israel’s largest majority-Arab city, blasted Arab members of Knesset in interviews on Sunday, blaming them for inciting riots and violence. Over 200 residents of Nazareth rioted on Thursday night, setting fires and throwing rocks at security forces. Ayman Odeh, the chairman of the Joint (Arab) List...

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A Palestinian woman detonated an explosive device in her car, seriously injuring herself and an Israeli police officer who stopped her as she neared a Jerusalem-area checkpoint, The Times of Israel reported today. Police said officers noticed a suspicious vehicle driven by a woman heading toward a checkpoint on the...

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In a statement at a press conference on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the latest wave of terror against Israelis on “wild and mendacious incitement by Hamas, the Palestinian Authority [PA],” and others. While Mahmoud Abbas, president of the PA, has recently claimed that he seeks to avoid...

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Dr. Michael Satlow, a professor of religious studies and Judaic studies at Brown University, wrote today that the existence of a Jewish temple on the Temple Mount is “as historically certain a fact as one can get.” Satlow’s statement, published on his website, was prompted by a report yesterday in The...

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