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School Transportation News
April 19, 2018
These case studies are summarized from “Security Awareness for Public Bus Transportation: Case Studies of Attacks Against the Israeli Public Bus System (MTI Report 11-07)” prepared by the Mineta Transportation Institute. Aug. 2, 2001: Kibbutzun Junction, No casualties. A suicide bomber trying to boardÃâà...
The Guardian
April 19, 2018
It was harder three years later when a woman suicide bomber from Jenin blew herself up and killed 21 others in Maxim's restaurant – jointly owned by Jews and Arabs. In the Lebanon war of 2006, a missile fired by Hezbollah killed two elderly Arabs. Successive Israeli wars against Hamas in Gaza – inÃâà...
Haaretz
April 19, 2018
Some wore vests with pockets stuffed with dozens of tear-gas grenades; they looked like suicide bombers with explosive belts on the way to perpetrating an attack. The dogs heightened the aura of terror projected by their masters. The atmosphere in the East Jerusalem neighborhood was tense and highlyÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 29, 2018
BEIRUT (Sputnik) - The Syrian forces have seized a total of 36 would-be suicide bombers at different humanitarian corridors in the Eastern Ghouta enclave ... Four days ago we received reports about the provocations being prepared by suicide bombers wearing explosive belts, who were supposed to beÃâà...
Haaretz
March 2, 2018
“I am not a Shi'ite suicide bomber,” she said, after announcing her withdrawal. In the past few weeks, she met with many hundreds of party members. Many said they identified with Zandberg's stand – as she stated in an interview with Haaretz – against automatically disqualifying Avigdor Lieberman and hisÃâà...
Haaretz
March 1, 2018
“I'm not a Shi'ite suicide bomber,” she said shortly after announcing her exit. In recent weeks Galon had met hundreds of party members. Many of them, especially the new ones, supported Zandberg's position, which doesn't automatically rule out joining Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu as futureÃâà...
Al-Monitor
February 26, 2018
The biggest one, of Abdallah Mahmoud Atawi, a suicide bomber who drove a car packed with 500 kilograms (1,102 pounds) of explosives into two Israeli convoys in 1988, is nearly as high as the wall. A cease-fire has largely been maintained along the frontier since Israel fought a war against Hezbollah inÃâà...
CNBC
February 7, 2018
Andy Monfried was on vacation in Israel when he had what he described as the "seminal" moment in his career. He and his wife were in Jerusalem when the restaurant they were eating in became the target of two Hamas suicide bombers. The couple were among the few survivors of the attack, shieldedÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 2, 2018
The Israeli intelligence community had come across suicide bombers before, but it had no solution for it. “What can you do against a suicide bomber when he's already walking around in your streets looking for somewhere to blow himself up?” said Yitzhak Ben-Yisrael, the head of the Administration for theÃâà...
