Second intifada

The miracle that shaped Israel Prize winner Avi Rivkind’s life and career - opinion

How one trauma surgeon’s split-second decision changed the course of a young soldier’s life.

AVIYA, SHIMON, holding his sister’s grandson, and Aviya’s daughter Tahel.
A gaping hole is left in the shop front of the Sbarro pizzeria after a suicide bombing, August 9, 2001

Fight for Second Intifada victims reopens with $655 million judgment against PA - interview

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah (L) and Hamas politburo member Khalil al-Hayya.

PA ordered to pay $655.5 million to Intifada victims after NY Appeals Court reinstates prior ruling

WORKING OUT of the Talpaz Ceramic Studio in the Saltiel Community Center, in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood. She gives classes there as well.

Francine Bork Strausberg: Living a perfectly imperfect life in Israel


Israel breaks 20-year record for administrative detention of Palestinians - analysis

Identifying the possible implications of ending the administrative detention of Palestinians.

IDF with Palestinian demonstrators during a rally in solidarity with six Palestinian prisoners who managed to esacpe from an Israeli prison a few days ago, in Hebron, September 9, 2021.

Burns: A lot of Israeli-Palestinian violence resembles Second Intifada

The US is working as closely as it can with the Israeli and the Palestinian security services to prevent violence, CIA head William Burns said.

 CIA Director William Burns gestures as he speaks during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats in Washington, DC, US, April 15, 2021.

Supreme Court permanently bars screening ‘Jenin Jenin’ in Israel

The film has caused controversy dating back to the Second Intifada in 2002 when it was created to present Israel’s operation against Palestinian terror in Jenin that year in a negative light.

 THE SUPREME Court, Jerusalem: Critiques from Right and Left.

'Born in Jerusalem and Still Alive' tells a capital tale with dark humor

Atia has real feeling for Jerusalem and portrays the changing city vividly, but the film as a whole is something of a missed opportunity.

 ‘BORN IN Jerusalem and Still Alive.’

The lessons of Defensive Shield, 20 years on - opinion

Editor's Notes: "After Defensive Shield... the situation in Israel completely changed."

 AN ISRAELI tank patrols the deserted central square of Ramallah on March 31, 2002, two days after Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield.

No, it's not the Third Intifada - analysis

The spate of attacks in Israel that has claimed close to a dozen lives has stirred up memories of the Second Intifada.

 Scene of incident in Mahane Yehuda in Jerusalem, March 30, 2022

Jerusalem terror shooting triggers intifada memories - analysis

Whenever there is a terrorist attack that results in deaths, it brings all the trauma of the second intifada back to the surface again.

 Israeli security personnel carry a dead body down the steps following a shooting incident in Jerusalem's Old City November 21, 2021.

21 years after 'dying,' Shimon Ohana celebrates son's bar mitzvah - opinion

Shimon had a tenth of one percent chance of recovery after being shot in the Second Intifada. Today, he is alive.

 RACHEL Ohana and Avi Rivkind stand on either side of the happy couple at Shimon and Avia’s wedding.

American victims of Second Intifada want Supreme Court to review case

A group of about 200 Americans with family members harmed in the early 2000s attacks in Israel are asking the Supreme Court to review a decision by a federal appeals court

A general view of the US Supreme Court building at sunset in Washington, US, November 10, 2020.

Colin Powell was a true friend of Israel - editorial

Colin Powell represented a unique breed of US supporters for Israel, who had an emotional understanding of what makes Israel unique and what the country means in historic terms for the Jewish people.

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