Israel Charges Firebrand Islamic Cleric with Incitement
An Israeli court on Thursday charged a firebrand Islamic cleric with incitement to terrorism in connection with deadly unrest at a Jerusalem holy site last month, the justice ministry said.
An Israeli court on Thursday charged a firebrand Islamic cleric with incitement to terrorism in connection with deadly unrest at a Jerusalem holy site last month, the justice ministry said.
Bayit Yehudi chairman Naftali Bennett accused Joint List lawmakers of supporting and inciting terrorism in a speech to the Knesset on Wednesday.
JERUSALEM — In an extensive radio interview, Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief and senior reporter Aaron Klein confronted an Islamic leader here about his false claim that Israel is attempting to limit Muslim worship at the holy site.
Friday prayers normally held at hundreds of mosques in Arab towns in Israel were canceled in dozens of locations following pressure from local Muslim leaders to encourage thousands to throng the Temple Mount area.
TEL AVIV – It cannot be ignored that today’s deadly Palestinian terrorist attack at the Temple Mount comes less than two weeks after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) passed an anti-Israel resolution declaring Jerusalem’s Old City and its ancient walls to be “occupied” sites and scandalously listed the areas as Palestinian heritage sites.
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday that, in any future peace deal with the Palestinians, Arab List Knesset members suspected of incitement to violence against Jews or of harboring terrorist sympathies should leave Israel.
Elements in Hamas’ political leadership have expressed concern that the election of a hardline militant as leader of the Islamic movement may jeopardize its recent diplomatic efforts to thaw relations with Egypt and could precipitate a more extremist approach toward the region.
An Arab terrorist cell that was planning attacks on IDF soldiers in the southern part of Israel was recently discovered, defense officials revealed Tuesday.
The Nazareth District Court on Sunday indicted four senior members of a recently outlawed Islamic activist group for provoking tensions at the Temple Mount holy site in Jerusalem, Israel’s Shin Bet security agency said Sunday.
Ordinary Israelis on Thursday were doing what they could to help the 75,000 Haifa residents who were evacuated from their homes due to fires that raged in and around the port city, destroying buildings and wooded areas.
Several institutions affiliated with initiatives of the Islamic Movement in Israel were shut down on Thursday, after the Shin Bet recommended the courts extend a previous declaration made by the Security Cabinet, which found the northern branch of the Islamic Movement to be an unlawful instigator.
Israel is expected to demolish Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque in 2019, 50 years after an arsonist attempted to burn down the Muslim holy site, the Palestinian Authority’s Jerusalem Affairs Minister Adnan Ghaleb al-Husayni baselessly claimed in a recent interview with the Palestinian Information Center.
The Muslim Brotherhood offices in Jordan were shut down on Wednesday by the state authorities. No reason was given for the sudden crackdown on the Islamic movement, which recently cut ties with sister chapters in the Arab world.
JERUSALEM – Palestinian claims of a so-called Jewish threat to the Al Aqsa Mosque continued to unravel on Monday, when the Jerusalem District Court here sentenced three Palestinians to prison time for a plot to kidnap and murder Jews on the
The Israeli government has banned the radical northern branch of the Islamic Movement for its alleged ties to terrorist groups and for inciting a recent wave of Arab violence in Israel. Israeli Defense minister Moshe Ya’alon issued an edict forbidding