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Haaretz
February 25, 2018
Over 40 percent of the graves in West Bank settlements have been dug on privately owned Palestinian land, according to new research by a left-wing Israeli ... a nongovernmental organization concerned with Israeli settlement and the state's land policies beyond the Green Line (Israel's pre-1967 borders).
Haaretz
February 14, 2018
As head of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council, Wallerstein initiated the construction in the settlement of Ofra of a sewage treatment center, built on privately owned Palestinian ... He served for two years as head of the Yesha council, the umbrella organization of all Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
+972 Magazine
December 31, 1999
Palestinian youth respond to a play based on testimonies by Israeli soldiers, which portrays the brutality of the occupation from the point of view of the occupiers. By Pam .... Israeli settlers and Palestinian demonstrators throw stones at each other, near the West Bank settlement of Ofra, May 3, 2013. (photo:ÃÂ ...
American Theatre
January 30, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO: Theatre Bay Area (TBA) has announced that playwright Ofra Daniel and the Jewish Circle Theatre have been selected as the recipients of the 2018 Will Glickman Award for Daniel's Love Sick. Jewish Circle Theatre produced the world premiere of the musical, in association with JohnÃÂ ...
Haaretz
January 18, 2018
Bastiker's public defender Ofra Siboni said, “This is a young man with no criminal record. After a preliminary psychiatric evaluation the court decided to send him for psychiatric evaluation in order to ascertain his fitness to stand trial.” Bastiker's mother said he hadn't eaten or drunk in recent days, finding itÃÂ ...
Art Newspaper
January 1, 2018
Avi Gisser, an Israeli orthodox rabbi who heads the West Bank settlement of Ofra and is chair of Israel's national religious education council, has deep respect for his Islamic partners. “I teach in the Jewish religious community that we need to build our life together, Jew and Arab, Jewish and Muslim; thereÃÂ ...
The New York Review of Books
December 30, 2017
A circular dated November 14, 1979, restricted public access to land records. Such records are still restricted for most of the land in the West Bank that Israel controls. Soon after the court ruled against Albina, two representatives from the illegal settlement of Ofra—established mainly on private Palestinian land—came to seeÃÂ ...
+972 Magazine
December 22, 2017
Construction workers clear land for new caravans in the settlement of Ofra, West Bank, January 29, 2017. ... Regev, in the name of Israeli sovereignty over all the land between the river and the sea, insists on blurring the distinct between the settlements and Israel proper. By doing so, she marks the entireÃÂ ...
Haaretz
December 14, 2017
A local Israeli government in the West Bank is using private Palestinian land to store mobile homes that are meant to house settlers evacuated from the illegal Amona outpost, Haaretz has learned. The land, situated near the West Bank settlement of Ofra, was previously expropriated from Palestinian ownersÃÂ ...
+972 Magazine
December 31, 1999
Bungalows built by Israeli settlers on land seized from the Palestinian village of al-Mazraa al-Kubliyeh, near the West Bank city of Birzeit, seen on the hillside, ... Jewish men pray early in the morning on the hill overlooking Ofra in the Jewish settlement of Amona in the West Bank, December 18, 2016.
+972 Magazine
September 28, 2017
Netanyahu vows to never remove settlements. ... 50 years of the Israeli settlement movement, Gush Etzion, West Bank, ... Construction workers clear land for new caravans in the settlement of Ofra, West Bank, January 29, 2017. ... toward peace is Palestinian incitement, or refusal to recognize Israel as anÃÂ ...
Press TV
September 13, 2017
An Israeli bulldozer destroys a family house in the Israeli settlement of Ofra in the occupied West Bank on March 1, 2017. (Photo by AFP).
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
September 3, 2017
Israeli settlers scuffling with security forces during an evacuation operation ... Amona's former residents are currently living in a field school in the Ofra settlement, where ... from homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in February. Israel has not established a completely new settlement since the earlyÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
September 2, 2017
There are some 196 government recognized Israeli settlements ... settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law. ... where the settlement is being built, have filed a case with Israel's Higher ... Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Committee memberÃÂ ...
Tablet Magazine
December 31, 1999
The notion of a Kurdish state as a “second Israel” is not new. It was first coined in Iraq during the Kurdish revolution in the 1960s. The couplingÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
March 15, 2017
While both are illegal under international law, Jewish settler outposts are different than traditional settlements in that they are not formally recognized by the Israeli government and are built on privately-owned Palestinian land, rather than Israeli ...
JerusalemOnline
March 6, 2017
Israel why absorbing palestinians while anexing West Bank ? just relocate them to saudi arabia where is their place !
Arab News
March 6, 2017
A bulldozer demolishes a house in the West Bank settlement of Ofra, in this March 1, 2017 photo. .... Judea and Samaria is the biblical term for the West Bank, land Israel captured in the 1967 war and continues to occupy. ... annexing the West Bank ...
The Electronic Intifada
March 3, 2017
A Palestinian youth from the West Bank was arrested after he allegedly injured six people during a shooting and stabbing attack in Petah Tikva, a city in Israel, on 9 February. A Palestinian citizen of Israel was ... Dozens of police officers were ...
TheTower.org
March 3, 2017
The following day, Israeli security forces evacuated and demolished nine homes near the West Bank community of Ofra on Wednesday after being ordered to do so by the High Court. ... Herzog suggested that in the absence of such a partner, Israel can ...
Los Angeles Times
February 28, 2017
When the Israeli government reluctantly complied with a court order and booted several hundred Israeli settlers from a hilltop outpost in the West Bank early this month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's administration promised to break ground within ...
Idaho Press-Tribune
February 28, 2017
OFRA, West Bank (AP) - Israeli forces began evacuating nine homes in the West Bank settlement of Ofra on Tuesday, following a Supreme Court decision that ruled they were built on private Palestinian land. Dozens of settlers and their supporters were ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
February 28, 2017
The homes located in the West Bank settlement of Ofra were ordered demolished by Israel's Supreme Court after it was determined that they were built on Palestinian-owned land. The evacuation began Tuesday ahead of a March 5 court-ordered deadline forÃÂ ...
Broadway World
February 17, 2017
s music lit a sparkle in the eye of French actress Isabelle Adjani by way of the voice of Israeli singer Ofra Haza. The following year, while war ravaged their country, Bregovi?
Newsweek
February 14, 2017
A boy rides his bicycle past houses in the Israeli settlements of Ofra, in the occupied West Bank, February 6. Robert Lifton writes that it would be a mistake for Israel to undertake settlement activities that preclude a future two-state resolution and ...
JNS.org
February 9, 2017
A demonstration against the planned demolition of nine homes in the Israeli settlement of Ofra Feb. 5, 2017. Credit: ... Palestinian land. The law's passage is being hailed by supporters of Israel's 40-year-old settlement enterprise as a step toward ...
The Jewish Voice
February 8, 2017
The Supreme Court has postponed the planned evacuation of nine homes on Ofra, which were allegedly built on purportedly Palestinian owned land. The residents had asked for a three month delay, to enable them to complete getting their new homes ready.
Al-Monitor
February 8, 2017
The contentious law, advanced by HaBayit HaYehudi, is intended to legalize Jewish homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the West Bank. Mor Yosef says that as far as the settlers are concerned, this is only the beginning. In the next stage ...
Arab News
February 7, 2017
... due to meet with his Israeli counterpart in Tel Aviv - in the first visit by a top government official from Turkey since the two countries last year patched up ties that were badly damaged over the 2010 raid of a Gaza-bound Turkish ship by Israeli ...
Mondoweiss
February 3, 2017
Israeli police evacuated more than 200 Israeli settlers Wednesday from the West Bank outpost of Amona, dragging families with young children out of the illegal community that was built more than a decade ago.
Haaretz
February 1, 2017
SCOTUS TALK: "President Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court, elevating a 49-year-old judge who has served on a federal appeals court for more than a decade to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia... Gorsuch'sÃÂ ...
The Jewish Voice
February 1, 2017
He also said the retroactive expropriation of private land is a clear violation of the both the Geneva Convention, which Israel is a signatory to, and Israeli constitutional law. Sunday, Opposition Leader Isaac Herzog called ... In light of the ...
TRT World
January 30, 2017
Though illegal under international law, Israel's military-backed settlements in the Occupied West Bank have been expanding for decades.
JNS.org
January 23, 2017
(JNS.org) The Israeli cabinet decided to delay a vote on a bill for Israel to annex the Jerusalem suburb of Ma'ale Adumim, which lies beyond the 1967 lines, until Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Donald Trump next month.
http://hamodia.com
January 23, 2017
Currently, under Israeli law, such claims are enough to warrant the demolition of homes even before proof of ownership is supplied, with the High Court ruling that the adjudication of whether or not the land is actually owned by absentee Arabs is ...
Science Daily
January 18, 2017
Sagi Barzilai, Sandeep Kumar Yadav, Steven Morrell, Francesco Roncato, Eugenia Klein, Liat Stoler-Barak, Ofra Golani, Sara W. Feigelson, Assaf Zemel, Sussan Nourshargh, Ronen Alon.
Haaretz
January 18, 2017
... the Arab-Israeli conflict, the peace process, Israeli politics, Jerusalem affairs, international relations, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the Israeli business world and Jewish life in ...
Gatestone Institute
January 16, 2017
"Illegality in international law" applies neither to the Israeli settlements that existed prior to Oslo II nor to any continued subsequent Israeli building that was confined to the official boundaries of those settlements (including Jerusalem in its ...
3ders.org (blog)
January 16, 2017
Israel, which boasts one dentist per 1,400 people (according to the National Center for Biotech Information), is considered to be one of the world's leaders in dentistry and dental technologies.
Business Mirror
January 14, 2017
In direct coordination with Israel Ambassador Effie Ben Matityau, 120 Israeli dentists held their annual conference here in the country and hosted a meeting with the Philippine Dental Association, led by its president, Dr.
Al-Monitor
January 13, 2017
Bennett has led this campaign since the US elections and has called on Israel "to impose Israeli law on the predominantly Jewish areas of Judea and Samaria: Maale Adumim, the Jordan Valley, Ariel and Ofra. In the rest of the area, there will be ...
http://hamodia.com
January 13, 2017
Like in Amona, the nine homes in a neighborhood on the edge of Ofra are built on land claimed by Arabs. Currently, under Israeli law, such claims are enough to warrant the demolition of homes even before proof of ownership is supplied, with the High ...
San Francisco Examiner
January 12, 2017
"There's no word for it in English," says Ofra Daniel, its creator. The playwright ... Daniel had never paid much attention to the "The Song of Songs" until she was searching for fresh material for a series of monologues based on Israeli poetry. She ...
Press TV
January 11, 2017
A Fatah spokesman said on Wednesday that Talal Dweikat, a former governor of the northern West Bank district of Tulkarm, was seized from his home in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. "The Israeli occupation targets every Palestinian regardless ofÃÂ ...
SF Weekly
January 10, 2017
Actress, playwright, and composer Ofra Daniel was scouring the public domain for something new and innovative to put on the stage, when her ex-husband suggested she look at the Song of Songs.
The Electronic Intifada
January 7, 2017
Thirty-five Palestinian children were slain by Israeli forces and private security guards during 2016. Defense for Children International - Palestine called it the "deadliest year of the past decade for West Bank children." Israel transferred the ...
The Salem News
January 5, 2017
Peabody: "The Forgotten Refugees" film screening, 7 p.m., Temple Ner Tamid, 368 Lowell St. Documentary on the 1948 establishment of the State of Israel and the exodus of one million Jewish people. Ofra Yaakov discuss her family's experience with theÃÂ ...
SFGate
January 5, 2017
Ofra Daniel was drawn to the Hebrew text "The Song of Songs," she says in a statement, because it "expresses perhaps the strongest female voice" of any biblical text.
Jewish Link of New Jersey
January 5, 2017
... are blinded by their contempt for Israel or their own biases. Many seem psychologically incapable of accepting the reality that Palestinian Arabs refuse to accept Israel's right to exist, and that until they do so, the war against the Jews will ...
Jweekly.com
January 5, 2017
There is a Hebrew word - mopha - that describes the hybrid performance art of theater, dance, song and live music, says Israeli stage artist Ofra Daniel. It has no exact equivalent in English, the Berkeley-based actor and director says. But that won ...
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