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Vehicle seized after search, 2 suspects caught in Bedouin town of Hura; in separate hit-and-run, 15-year-old boy is killed; woman killed after bus hits her in Ashdod

Paramedics take victims to hospitals in unrelated occurrences within an hour

Rioting by Bedouin residents of the Negev that began Tuesday night in protest over KKL teams planting trees continued overnight Thursday and Friday.

Local Bedouin uproot sapling trees, throw rocks at police, civilian vehicles • 10 rioters arrested, three residents suffer minor injuries.

Demonstrators block highway; officers respond with tear gas, stun grenades; 3 hospitalized, 13 arrested during 3rd day of protests

Fifteen sewage treatment plants were torched in recent years, mostly for suspected protection rackets. The police tell corporations to hire security guards

May. 12, 2021 11:37 AM Israel declared overnight Tuesday a state of emergency in a mixed Arab-Jewish town in central Israel following clashes there in recent days between Jewish and Arab residents and police. Twelve were wounded, one in serious condition. Declaring a state of emergency transfers control over Lod to the police, granting Commissioner Kobi Shabtai broad powers and the authority to impose nighttime curfew in an attempt to quell the violence. Anti-police violence broke out Tuesday a...

Follow May. 12, 2021 The Israel Defense Forces and Hamas have clashed repeatedly in recent years, but the latest round of fighting appears significantly different from previous iterations, with the conflict spreading into internal civil strife between Israel’s Arabs and Jews. The current fighting started on Monday following weeks of Arab-Jewish clashes in Jerusalem over tensions on Temple Mount and in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. But as Hamas rockets began landing across ...