Alexander Levlovich

Israeli police at the scene of a stabbing attack near a Police station in East Jerusalem, October 12, 2015. A Palestinian teenager was shot and seriously injured after she allegedly carried out an attack that wounded two Israelis. (Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

What are the odds? A statistical look at the stabbing attacks

The chances I will be harmed in a terror attack are very low. A tiny fraction of one percent of Palestinians are involved in recent terror attacks against Israelis, and hardly any are citizens of Israel. Walking past Dizengoff Center in Tel Aviv recently on a crowded sidewalk full of jostling youngsters, I found myself imagining someone attacking…

By Dahlia Scheindlin October 17, 2015

Israeli settler couple killed, and the band plays on

Our hearts are desensitized by horror fatigue, convinced that nothing can change. But we must still try, if not for the dead then for the living. A lifetime of sorrow lies before four children who became orphans last night when their parents were killed in a hailstorm of bullets on a West Bank road. The children were…

By Dahlia Scheindlin October 2, 2015

A Palestinian runs to take cover from tear gas, during clashes with Israeli police at the Palestinian refugee camp of Shuafat in East Jerusalem, November 5, 2014. Clashes broke after a Palestinian man drove a car into a crowd, killing a policeman and injuring 13 people in Jerusalem. By: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org

How to neutralize stone throwers — without killing them

End the occupation, and extend full civil rights to Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem. It’s that simple. Reports of violent clashes in Jerusalem are leading the Israeli news cycle these days, and receiving quite a bit of international coverage as well. Mako, a popular Israeli news site, refers to the actions of Palestinian teens confronting…

By Lisa Goldman September 20, 2015

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