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    Ofra, the Mayflower of the Settlements

    The author of ‘The Hilltop’ revisits the lands and people Amos Oz confronted in the early 1980s to see how far the West Bank settlements have come, and where they are headed

    byAssaf Gavron
  • Almost 40 years after 67 Jewish residents were killed by Arab rioters in the city in 1929, right-wing Jewish settler Tova Felix cleans the yard of the renewed settlement August 10, 1968 in the biblical town of Hebron.(Photo: Moshe Milner/GPO via Getty Images)
    Almost 40 years after 67 Jewish residents were killed by Arab rioters in the city in 1929, right-wing Jewish settler Tova Felix cleans the yard of the renewed settlement August 10, 1968 in the biblical town of Hebron.(Photo: Moshe Milner/GPO via Getty Images)
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    Are Right-Wing American Jewish Settlers Destroying Zionism?

    A new history, City on a Hilltop, looks at the huge range of political affiliations that have animated people to occupy land in and around Israel

    byDavid Mikics
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    U.S. Citizen Among 5 Killed in Tel Aviv and West Bank Horror

    A Palestinian man stabbed two to death outside a synagogue in Tel Aviv. Hours later, a Palestinian man opened fire with a submachine gun in the West Bank, killing three, including an American.

    byJonathan Zalman
  • Palestinian women walk past a mural depicting late Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin (L) and late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on May 4, 2014 in Gaza City.(Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images)
    Palestinian women walk past a mural depicting late Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin (L) and late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on May 4, 2014 in Gaza City.(Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images)
    Israel & The Middle East section icon
    Why Great Palestinian Victories Are Worse Than Defeats

    Hamas today is in the same position as Yasser Arafat once was: sacrificing its people to a corrupted ideal

    byEdward N. Luttwak
  • Hitchhikers wait for rides south from the Gilo trempiada in Jerusalem in June.(Photo by Daniel Estrin)
    Hitchhikers wait for rides south from the Gilo trempiada in Jerusalem in June.(Photo by Daniel Estrin)
    Israel & The Middle East section icon
    A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the West Bank

    How the culture of shared rides around Israeli settlements breeds a sense of community, and a delusion of safety

    byDaniella Cheslow
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