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Overnight, terrorists fired anti-tank missiles toward the area of Har Dov in northern Israel. As a result, an Israeli civilian doing infrastructure work was injured and he was later pronounced dead. The victim was identified as Sharif Suad, a resident of Ras al-Ein, an Arab village in the Galilee. Overnight, IAF fighter jets struck Hezbollah terror targets in the area of Chebaa in southern Lebanon, including a weapons storage facility and a launcher used by the terrorist organization. In addition, IDF soldiers fired to remove a threat in the area. Furthermore, IAF fighter jets struck Hezbollah operational infrastructure in the...

An Israeli-Arab was attacked by a lynch mob on Thursday in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina. His offense? Speaking Hebrew. Muhammad Abed Abu Rahman, a 24-year-old resident of the Israeli Arab town of Abu Ghosh near Jerusalem, recalled a harrowing experience in the capital on Thursday while driving through an Arab neighborhood. While speaking on the phone in Hebrew, locals surrounded his car and began threatening him for “daring” to speak Hebrew near the home of Abu Khder, the 16-year-old murdered in a revenge attack following the killings of three abducted Israeli teens in 2014. “Someone came up to...

Israel’s Independence Day celebrations are seen by Palestinians as dancing on their blood and ignoring their tragedy, Jamal Zahalke of the Balad party said Tuesday at a demonstration near Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel. He was speaking at an event, the 16th March of Return, in which the Nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe,” associated with the establishment of Israel and the uprooting of Palestinians from certain villages, is commemorated. Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign up! The Israeli-Arab legislator blamed the government for the ongoing tragedy and bloodshed of the...

Ahmed Tibi was not at all afraid to say on TV that he is the master of the Land of Israel. What does it mean that he was elected by Israeli Arabs? What makes Israeli Jews stand for this? I am the master here!" shouted MK Ahmad Tibi on Israeli television, completely losing his cool. When I heard that sentence I understood that I did not need to say anything more. I did not need to remind the viewers of our debate that Tibi was the aide and close advisor of the arch-murderer who killed more Jews than anybody since...

An Israeli-Arab human rights activist has confessed to spying for the Hizbullah terrorist organization. Amir Makhoul headed the Israeli-Arab organization Ittijah, a group that has rejected anti-terror clauses in funding agreements. The Haifa-based organization, established in 1985, describes itself as “the network for Palestinian non-governmental organizations in Israel.” At present, his brother Issa – a former Israeli-Arab Knesset Member – heads the organization. Amir Makhoul, who was convicted Wednesday, confessed to charges of espionage and aggravated espionage, according to a statement issued by the Justice Ministry. Under the terms of a plea bargain deal, Makhoul also pleaded guilty to charges...

An Israeli Arab man has been indicted for allegedly working on behalf of Hezbollah in a plot to assassinate Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi, a gag order lifted on Monday revealed. Tira resident Rawi Fuad Sultani, 23, was arrested by Shin Bet and Israel Police forces earlier this month and indicted at the Haifa District Court. According to the charge sheet, Sultani first made contact with Hezbollah agents at a multi-national Arab summer camp in Morocco organized by the Israeli Arab political party Balad. Lebanese Hezbollah agent Salman Harev, who also took part in the camp, spent...

Nov. 21, 2006 15:31 | Updated Nov. 21, 2006 16:23 Israeli Arab convicted as Iranian spy By YAAKOV KATZ AND JPOST STAFF Jaris Jaris: Another Israeli Arab accused of helping an enemy. Photo: Channel 2 A prison term of 34 months and 12 months probation was the sentence handed down on Monday to an Israeli Arab convicted of spying for Iran, it was released for publication on Tuesday. Jaris Jaris, 59, was arrested on December 12, 2005, after investigators discovered that he had been recruited by Iran and was asked to use his political contacts to infiltrate the corridors of...

Tension between Jewish and Arab MKs have increased since the abduction of Corporal Gilad Shalit last week, and on Monday harsh words were exchanged during a session on the no-confidence vote submitted by the Arab parties on the heels of the arrests of Palestinian parliament members. MK Moshe Sharoni of the Pensioners party called out to the Arab MKs, “you are collaborators of terror; you encourage terrorists. Go there (Gaza). “Where were you when an 18-year-old boy was murdered (Eliyahu Asheri )? It didn’t even interest you. The name ‘Gaza’ should be switched to ‘city of terrorists’.” MK Alex Miller...

A terror attack was prevented today at a checkpoint outside Shechem at the same time as security forces revealed the prevention of a massive multi-pronged attack between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Two PA Arabs tried to pass through a roadblock southwest of Shechem, near Har Gerizim this afternoon. One looked suspicious and was spotted with a pipe bomb. The soldiers isolated the terrorist and searched him, finding two more bombs on his person. The second terrorist then tried to stab one of the soldiers with a knife. He was subdued and the explosives detonated in a controlled manner by IDF...

The Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court revealed Wednesday that an Israeli-Arab youth aged 17 has been accused of aiding and abetting Hamas terrorists, conspiring to assist the enemy in a time of war, and being in contact with enemy agents. The youth allegedly promised to put his Israeli ID and navigational abilities to enemy services and drive Hamas suicide bombers to their targets in the Afula and Netanya regions, Army Radio reported. He also provided information to the Hamas regarding entry points from the PA into Israel and was asked to provide Israeli ID cards to terrorists. The youth also tried...

(IsraelNN.com) Um el-Fahm resident Jamal Mahadjne, 47, was indicted today in the Haifa District for transporting the female suicide bomber who perpetrated the Maxim Restaurant attack in Haifa on 4 October inside Green Line Israel. Mahadjne was a habitual violator, who regularly took a fee for driving PA residents across the Green Line illegally, taking advantage of his Israeli identity card to cross back and forth without difficulty. Several days before the attack, he allegedly drove the bomber, a Jenin resident, into Green Line Israel where she perpetrated the attack that claimed 21 lives and left over 65 injured. The...

The discovery of yet another Israeli-Arab terrorist ring shook Israel today - although it appeared that the shock was somewhat less intense than that which Israel suffered last August when a gang of Israeli-Arab Hamas members from the Jerusalem area was uncovered. Today's shock was also apparently less powerful than the one experienced in October of last year when an Israeli-Arab terrorist cell was uncovered in Ramle. In fact, over the past year many terrorist initiatives by Arab citizens of Israel have been discovered, including three terrorists from Tzur Baher who were planning a string of major terror attacks in...

The Interior Ministry, in a report entitled "Polygamy in Israel," shows that Israel is paying through the nose to 20,000 Israeli-Arab men who have married multiple wives from other countries and thus receive child-support payments for them. The report, submitted to Prime Minister Sharon yesterday, was prepared by Brig.-Gen. (res.) Herzl Gedz, head of the Ministry's Population Registry. "The State of Israel, for known reasons, is a choice destination for non-Jewish immigrants from various other countries," states the report, quoted in Maariv today, "and especially from Arab nations and the Palestinian Authority. This wave of immigration is very dangerous to...

An Arab with Israeli citizenship attempted to hijack an El Al airliner last night, planning to ram the plane into a Tel Aviv building. He was tackled to the ground by two plainclothes security guards while trying to storm the plane's cockpit, and the 170 passengers aboard flight #581 from Tel Aviv landed safely at their destination - Istanbul, Turkey. The alleged would-be hijacker is Tawfik Fukara, 23, of a Galilee village 15 kilometers west of Tiberias. An investigation is underway to determine how Fukara managed to board the plane with the small knife with which he may have threatened...