Tag: Riots
Arab rioting during Gaza conflict exposes long-simmering issues in Israeli mixed cities
The rioting and violence that took place in mixed Jewish-Arab cities during the 11-day Gaza conflict in May has unsettled many Israelis and exposed long-simmering problems in these communities, such as high rates of...
Mansour Abbas: Arab protests were legitimate due to Jerusalem ‘provocations’
The chairman of Israel’s United Arab List Party (Ra’am) on Thursday defended the right of Arab Israelis to protest against the state’s “provocations” on the Temple Mount and in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of...
Israeli Border Police chief: ‘Clashes in mixed cities bordered on anarchy’
The recent clashes between Jewish and Arab Israelis in the country’s mixed towns were worse than the public believed and bordered on anarchy, Border Police Commissioner Maj. Gen. Amir Cohen said on Wednesday.
The violent...
Israel Police arrest 74 people on day one of ‘Operation Law and Order’
Seventy-four people were arrested in the first 24 hours after Israel Police launched a nationwide crackdown on Sunday in the wake of the violent riots that have rocked the country in recent days, particularly in cities...
Temple Mount reopens to Jewish visitors after 19 days
After 19 days during which Jews were banned from visiting the Temple Mount due to Muslim unrest in Jerusalem, a group of 20 Jewish visitors was allowed on Sunday morning into the compound.
On Friday,...
Arab-Israeli suspect arrested in Jaffa firebombing
The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and Israel Police announced on Monday the arrest of an Arab Israeli man in his 20s on suspicion of hurling a firebomb that seriously injured an Arab Israeli...
Victim of Lod lynch mob dies of wounds
Fifty-six-year-old Lod resident Yigal Yehoshua died on Monday, less than a week after being critically wounded by a mob of Arab rioters in the central Israeli city.
Yehoshua was struck in the head by a brick while...
Arab-Israeli doctor injured saving Jew from Arab lynch mob
In an extraordinary act of bravery, an Arab Israeli doctor was injured trying to save the life of a Jewish Israeli man during an attempted lynching in Tamra, a Muslim city in the Galilee,...
US envoy Hady Amr arrives in Israel to de-escalate conflict
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israel and Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr arrived in Israel on Friday as part of efforts by the Biden administration to de-escalate the conflict in the region.
The U.S. embassy in...
Arab rioters in Israel damage tourism center in Akko’s multicultural Old City
Jewish National Fund-USA’s (JNF-USA) Western Galilee Tourist Information Center sustained significant damage overnight after it was ransacked by rioters in Israel’s northern city of Akko.
The center, in the heart of Akko’s Old City, has...