Middle East

Police said Thursday that they had arrested an East Jerusalem man suspected of being a senior activist in the outlawed Al-Shabab Al-Aqsa organization. Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up Rami Fahouri, 26, a resident of the Old City in Jerusalem was questioned on

A teenager from the West Bank settlement of Bat Ayin has been charged with assaulting an Arab bus driver with pepper spray, the courts said Thursday. Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up According to the indictment, which was filed with the Jerusalem Magistrate’s

UMM Al-FAHM — Late in August, Mervat Igbaria caught a bus from the lower Galilee city of Afula, near her home in the Arab Israeli town of Umm al-Fahm, down to Beersheba, where she studies. Normally an unremarkable several-hour journey, the bus ride turned harrowing when a fellow passenger mistook her cell-phone for a bomb

An Arab woman who attacked MK Shuli Moalem-Refaeli (Jewish Home) at the Temple Mount two years ago was sentenced to a half-month in prison Thursday. The sentence handed out by the Jerusalem Magistrate Court is in addition to the prison sentence she is currently serving. The attacker was also given a four month suspended sentence

A controversial referendum on Kurdish independence in Iraq will go ahead according to Massoud Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in the country. “The referendum will be held on time… Dialogue with Baghdad will resume after the referendum,” he said in an official statement on the KRG website. He had earlier told a

President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday called on industry leaders to bring Arabs and ultra-Orthodox Jews into Israel’s burgeoning high-tech sector, which he said would help realize the vision of late president Shimon Peres for the country. Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up Rivlin