Senior officer claims activists 'caused considerable financial damage,' when seizing abandoned churches near the Qasr al-Yahud holy site in the West Bank, in mid-December.
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Chaim Levinson is a Haaretz correspondent, covering the Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Previously, he was the Yedioth Ahoronot correspondent for Religious Affairs and the Orthodox communities.
Levinson received his B.A. in Social and Humanities Studies at the Open University and is currently studying for his M.A. in Interdisciplinary Democracy Studies.
Senior officer claims activists 'caused considerable financial damage,' when seizing abandoned churches near the Qasr al-Yahud holy site in the West Bank, in mid-December.
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Eight men suspected of tracking IDF movements in area in order to disrupt dismantling of illegal West Bank outposts, alerting other activists.
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Group allegedly gives people a phone number they can use to report unusual troop movements that could presage an evacuation of an outpost.
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Overnight operation takes place in Jerusalem, settlements of Yitzhar, Itamar, Harsha, and Kiryat Arba; activists: Israel Police has gone mad.
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Ramat Gilad was established in 2001 after Gilad Zar, a security coordinator for the Samaria Regional Council, was killed in a terrorist attack.
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Rabbi Eliezer Melamed says gender segregation on public buses hurts the 'proper family order', notes gender segregation is appropriate only during when performing 'public acts'.
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Shin Bet recommends at least three right-wing extremists be put in administrative detention in response to escalation in attacks on Palestinians and IDF.
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Suggestion follows incident where about 50 assaulted a top Israel Defense Forces officer and vandalized military vehicles on a West Bank base.
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The prisoner, Danny Ohana, from Mizpeh Ramon, has been convicted over the last several years of crimes involving drugs, violence and robbery.
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Over the decades permit regimen grows into vast, triple-digit bureaucracy.
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Most military court cases do not go to trial; they are resolved in plea bargains with the prosecutor or through guilty pleas.
9 commentsVictim complained to authorities her husband had physically abused her, over the years, but police say since no complaint had been filed they had no authority to take action.
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In the latest incident, graffiti sprayed on the mosque's wall made reference to Mitzpeh Yitzhar, an illegal West Bank outpost where security forces had demolished two buildings shortly before the mosque was vandalized.
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With tensions rising in the West Bank, and with Israeli military and police forces moving to demolish illegal structures, Haaretz is brining you a map listing the main outposts, their position and legal status.
61 commentsIsrael Police asks Channel 2 and right-leaning paper Makor Rishon to get film, photographs in their possession to aid investigation into IDF base attack; not first time police ask media for material to assist investigations.
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Netanyahu accepted recommendations of Public Security Minister Aharonovitch and Justice Minister Neeman to deal with Jewish lawbreakers on West Bank following recent infiltration of IDF base by right-wingers.
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15 arrested after crossing border fence, seizing abandoned churches in a deliberate attempt to gain attention of the Jordanian authorities.
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Three Palestinian vehicles set alight, stones hurled at Tapuach Junction as IDF convoy makes its way through the West Bank overnight.
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Team of some 30 police reviews all old files with even minor charges against extreme right-wingers, keeps them under surveillance.
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Information reportedly known to Central Command's top brass prior to a Monday attack on an IDF base int the West Bank.
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Yitzhar resident 'warns' soldiers not to take certain actions that may prevent evacuations, such as spreading nails on roads or damaging engines.
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Rabbi Avichai Ronsky, current head of Itamar settlement in West Bank, also called on settlement heads to meet urgently in wake of rightist attack on IDF base Tuesday.
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Yesha council chair, Im Tirtzu leader strongly condemn attack by right-wing activists on IDF soldiers; Defense Minister Barak says actions carry an 'air of self-made terrorism.'
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In planned provocation, about 25-30 activists enter sealed-off tract of land near border holy site, saying the incident is message to Jordan to keep out of Temple Mount affairs.
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Mustafa Tamimi, 28, sustained head injuries after being hit by a tear gas grenade that was fired at close range by a soldier from inside a patrol jeep in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh.
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