Micky Rosenfeld

American tourist found stabbed to death in Israel

Body of American woman found in hills near Jerusalem; stabbed friend accuses Arabs of attack. Israeli police discovered the body of an American woman, hands bound and full of stab wounds, in a rugged forest outside Jerusalem Sunday, a day after a friend said Arab assailants attacked the pair during a hike in the hills.
 

American tourist stabbed to death in Israel

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An American tourist was stabbed to death and another woman wounded while hiking in foothills outside Jerusalem, Israeli police said on Sunday.
 

Body of slain US woman found near Jerusalem

Israeli police on Sunday found the body of a missing US tourist, apparently stabbed to death, and are investigating whether she was the target of a terror attack, a spokesman said.
 

Tourist stabbed, search for woman: Israel police

A tourist was stabbed in the hills outside Jerusalem on Saturday and police were searching for a possible missing female companion, an Israeli police spokesman told AFP.
 

Sand, snow, thunderstorms wreak Mideast havoc

Winds, rain, sandstorms and hail battered the southern and eastern Mediterranean on Sunday, killing at least five people, closing ports and disrupting traffic in the Suez Canal.
 

Israel group blasts arrests of Palestinian minors

Israeli group: Arrests, interrogation of Palestinian minors for stone throwing violates law. Heavily armed Israeli police dragged the Dana brothers from their home before dawn, tossed them in armored jeeps and hauled them in for interrogation, the Palestinian boys and their father told The Associated Press.
 

Sand, snow, thunderstorms wreak Mideast havoc

Winds, rain, sandstorms and hail battered the southern and eastern Mediterranean on Sunday, killing at least five people, closing ports and disrupting traffic in the Suez Canal.
 
Heavy rains, strong winds batter Middle East

Heavy rains, strong winds batter Middle East

Heavy rains, strong winds batter Middle East, 1 killed in Lebanon by tree that crushed car. Heavy rains and fierce winds pummeled countries across the Middle East over the weekend, sinking a ship off Israel's coast and killing a woman in Lebanon whose car was crushed when a tree fell on it.
 

Israel police arrest four teens over huge inferno

Israeli police said on Monday they arrested four teenagers suspected of starting a blaze that swept through a forest and killed 42 people in the country's worst fire disaster.
 

Israel fire quelled, senior policewoman dies of burns

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's most senior policewoman died Monday of severe injuries suffered in a huge forest fire, raising the death toll in the blaze to 42.
 

Israel arrests two suspects in deadly fire

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police said on Saturday they had arrested two people suspected of setting a deadly forest fire that has spiraled out of control for three days.
 

Thousands battle Israel's worst-ever fire as toll hits 41

Thousands of Israeli rescuers and firemen backed by fire crews from around the globe battled on Friday to conquer the biggest inferno in Israel's history, which has already killed 41 people.
 

Protests after Israel demolishes E.Jerusalem home

Palestinians protested in east Jerusalem on Tuesday, throwing rocks and setting several cars on fire, after Israeli forces demolished a home in the Arab neighbourhood of Issawiya.
 

Israel police under fire for abusing east Jerusalem children

Israeli police were accused of "flagrant violations" of the law Thursday over their harsh and at times violent treatment of Palestinian children suspected of stone-throwing in east Jerusalem.
 

Israeli police break up Yeshiva scam

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police broke up a scam carried out by ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups who faked ID cards for fictitious students in order to receive millions of extra dollars from the state, a spokesman said Sunday.
 

Gun fire from Gaza hits Israeli kibbutz: police

"The shots were fired from the Gaza Strip and hit a building and a vehicle in Kibbutz Zikkim," Micky Rosenfeld told AFP, referring to a collective village located several hundred metres (yards) from the northernmost part of the border between Israel and Gaza.
 

Israel demolishes illegal mosque in Arab town

Israeli police demolish illegally built mosque in Arab town, drawing protests. Israeli police demolished an illegally built mosque in this impoverished Arab town on Sunday, touching off rock-throwing protests by residents and fueling new grievances against the government by the country's Arab minority.
 

Clashes as Israel police raze mosque in Bedouin town

Local residents said thousands of police and border police drove into the southern desert city overnight and set up roadblocks to prevent people from reaching the condemned mosque.
 

Israeli police, Arabs clash over rightist march

UMM EL-FAHM, Israel (Reuters) - Israeli police on Wednesday fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse Arabs who were protesting against a rally by ultranationalist Jews in an Israeli-Arab town.
 

Clashes as Israeli extremists march in Arab town

As a group of some 20 rightwing activists arrived in Umm al-Fahm, Arab youths with scarves wrapped around their faces burned tyres and hurled stones at police clad in riot gear, who fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse them.