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..... In Tarayrah’s Facebook posts over recent months, he repeatedly publicized his desire to die and his love of martyrdom for the Palestinian cause.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman announced late Friday their decision to approve 42 new housing units in the town of Kiryat Arba near Hevron, where a terrorist murdered a 13-year-old girl in her bed on Thursday. The new houses will be built in the same part of the town where the young victim of that attack, Hallel Yaffa Ariel, lived. Tenders for the housing units in question were initially issued a year and a half ago, but they were frozen for political reasons. The government's decision yesterday essentially green-lighted construction to begin. In addition, the decision...

A teenage girl was killed Thursday morning in Kiryat Arba when a terrorist broke into her home and stabbed her dozens of times as she lay in bed. A second victim, who responded to the terror attack, has been seriously wounded. The terrorist has been eliminated. MDA emergency responders were called to the scene at around 9:00 a.m. on Thursday following reports of a terror attack. Two victims were transferred to Jerusalem hospitals. A Kiryat Arba spokesperson said the terrorist penetrated the town's security perimeter and entered the Ramat Mamre (Givat Harsina) neighborhood. Officials reported that the terrorist broke into...

Ruti Hasno, the bereaved widow of Avraham Hasno who was brutally run over and murdered by an Arab terrorist last October, spoke with Arutz Sheva on Monday following a difficult Passover without her husband. Sahban Wael At-Titi, who ran over Hasno, was originally indicted for manslaughter last month before that charge was upgraded to murder following the outrage of Ruti Hasno and her children. Hasno, a 54-year-old resident of Kiryat Arba, was murdered at the Al Fawar junction near Hevron. After being ambushed by Arab rock throwers, Hasno left his vehicle to chase off his attackers, but was intentionally run...

Security forces and civil administration arrived Thursday morning to the “Shchunat Gal” outpost near Hevron and demolished a fence, foundations for a barn and a building that served as a synagogue. As a result, clashes broke out between the demolition team and locals. Two minors were details but released shortly thereafter. Yisrael Bramson, acting mayor of Kiryat Arba, responded to the destruction of the synagogue: “(Moshe) Ya'alon again demonstrated his attitude to settlements and in to synagogues in particular. This structure in question was not built on Arab territory, only the Likud party would destroy and devastate the land of...

The military prosecutor on Tuesday indicted Mahmoud a-Titi, 27, from Hebron, on a manslaughter charge for running over and murdering Avraham Hasno, 54, during a riot in Hebron last October. Abraham Asher Hasno was killed in a drive-by attack while driving near Hebron’s Kiryat Arba. His car was hit by stones thrown by Arabs, and Hasno stopped to assess the damage and to chase away the attackers. As he left his vehicle, an Arab truck ran him over and dragged his body a few hundred feet. The mortally injured Jewish man lay on the road for quite a while, did...

Leah Hasno, the daughter of Avraham Hasno, is not consoled by the impending demolition of the home of the Arab terrorist who murdered her father. "It is absurd that they're going to check the measurements of the house and what they can demolish and what not to demolish," Hasno told Arutz Sheva on Thursday, after IDF engineering units overnight made preparations for the demolition. Just this Tuesday the family of an Arab terrorist bought a villa on donations after their home was demolished. "Here they destroyed an entire family and no one checked. Does anyone think that you can measure...

As thousands of Jewish visitors stream in to visit the Cave of the Patriarchs to celebrate Passover holiday, dozens of rioters throw stones at soldiers in West Bank city. For the second day in a row violent clashes broke out between the IDF and Palestinian activists in Hebron by the Policeman’s Checkpoint in the West Bank city. On Thursday the clashes occurred on the sidelines of a Hebron demonstration to mark Prisoner Security forces responded with riot dispersal means, including tear gas. The checkpoint separates the section of the city that is under control of the Palestinian Authority from the...

Had to do it. Mother-in-law came to live after dad-in-law died. We had the only available ground-floor, no-stairs apartment in good condition, and the landlady sold it out from under us. And then there was the fact that mom-in-law is too old to learn Hebrew and has nothing to do there. So we've moved to Efrat, a/k/a "Little America", where Hebrew is not required, and where there's free transportation to the senior's center in Alon Shevut near by. Oh, and the link is to a book I wrote that I highly don't care if anyone buys, except for the money...

Police and Civil Administration personnel demolished homes in the new community (“outpost”) of Mitzpeh Avichai, near Kiryat Arba, early Thursday morning. Residents said that the forces destroyed at least 10 temporary buildings. Nine families were kicked out of their homes in the raid. Residents told Arutz Sheva that the forces entered the homes and forced whole families – including mothers, infants, and small children – into the near-freezing cold rain that fell overnight Wednesday. Residents said they were not deterred, however, and would rebuild. “Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are tough when it comes to pushing...

The Jerusalem District Court sentenced David Mizrachi of Kiryat Arba to three months' community service for running over a terrorist who stabbed his wife. Mizrachi, 57, was convicted in June of serious assault as part of a plea bargain, and the sentence was handed down Tuesday. The incident took place at the gas station at the entrance to Kiryat Arba in November of 2009. The terrorist, Wasim Maswada, came to the Paz gas station armed with an axe and a knife. He entered the convenience store that Mizrachi ran along with his wife, Tamar, and stabbed Tamar in the neck...

A traffic accident involving an Israeli driver and a Palestinian Authority youth sparked a riot on Friday morning near the city of Kiryat Arba. The Arab youth was hit and critically injured by the car at a local gas station. The cause of the accident is not yet clear. As paramedics tended to the youth, PA Arabs from Hevron and nearby towns began to riot and to attack security personnel at the scene. Police made several arrests, but the mob was undeterred. As the riot continued to spiral into violence, police began using rubber bullets to force the crowd away...

I learned the difference between firecrackers and gun shots in Brooklyn, It's now 10:30 a.m. here in Remat Mamre, and for the past hour, my wife and I have heard explosions, and they are not fireworks. While the Arabs do set them off at weddings, they do not generally have weddings so early in the day. Also, they don't sound like fireworks and the reports keep coming from different locations and varying in tone and frequency. I do believe we are witnessing a shootout, and a burst of what sounds like automatic small-arms fire has just confirmed it. The Arabs...

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/145227 and also http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/145229 Videos included in both stories.

NOTE: THIS IS THE NEW ISRAEL-RELATED THREAD Note The following news brief is a quote: Report: IDF attacks targets in south, central Gaza Strip Published: 08.17.10, 23:45 / Israel News Palestinians reported that the IDF had fired towards open ground in Khan Younis and attacked the smuggling tunnels in the south of the Gaza Strip. No injuries were reported. Two IDF soldiers were lightly wounded Tuesday morning from shells fired into the western Negev. (Ali Waked)

Vuz Vuz 2 is a discussion board of, by and for the English-speaking residents of Kiryat Arba, Israel. It is a place where the curious may find out more about Kiryat Arba, Judah and Shomron, and Israel generally, and those already living or just visiting our town may share their personal observations, advertise job opportunities/seeking employment, property for sale/rent/looking to buy/rent (both personal and real), news, political shmoozes, humor, and generally get together and talk. When the shortcomings of Google web sites made it unrealistic to continue using in the original Vuz Vuz site, I decided to start from scratch...

Last night, having been stranded in Gilo, I took a cab home. The gate off Highway 60 was open, but with sentries on duty. Before they let my cab driver through, one of them, armed with a rifle that he clutched nervously, opened first his door and then mine, quizzing us each in turn. He demanded to know what I was doing coming in at that hour (10:30), and when I told him I was coming home for the night, he demanded that I tell him quickly my building and apartment number (in Kiryat Arba, building numbers are sequential, regardless...

(IsraelNN.com) First response to the government's construction freeze: A Palestinian terrorist attacked Jews with a knife at the gas station in Kiryat Arba, near Hevron, wounding a man, 45, and a girl, 16. The terrorist was shot and killed by a soldier and a guard; the soldier is of the Nachshon Regiment, which was in the news recently for signs waved by some of its members against being used to remove Jews from their homes. The woman and man are reportedly in light condition. A Magen David Adom emergency crew arrived quickly on the scene, as did police and army...

Mar. 11, 2003 Mitzna: No way to protect lives of Hebron residents By THE JERUSALEM POST INTERNET STAFF Labor Party Chairman Amram Mitzna said Monday that there is no way to defend the lives of the residents and soldiers in Hebron. According to Mitzna, the public has to know that there are no real, professional or military ways to protect the population of Hebron and the soldiers that are in the divided West Bank town to protect them Mitzna's comments come a day after a soldier was killed in Hebron and the Friday night attack that killed a couple in...

Mar. 11, 2003 IDF reinforcements to Hebron after wave of attacks By DAVID RUDGE The IDF is expected to boost forces in Hebron and change its operational deployment there after the latest attack on Monday night in which St.-Sgt. Tomer Ron was killed and five other soldiers wounded - one of them seriously. The death of Ron, 20, of Moshav Moledet, brought to 25 the number of soldiers and Jewish civilians killed in the area in the past four months - prompting the urgent need for new security measures in the ancient city and its environs. Ron, a member of...