Israel Diaries

Independent investigative journalism

Givat Ronen Attack: Did it happen as reported?

On Friday, 9 August, there was a serious incident in Givat Ronen, a hilltop outpost near the ancient city of Shechem, a city that the Arabs call Nablus (the Romans rebuilt it and called it Neopolis and Arabic has no “p”). Mirroring the existence of different names in Arabic and Hebrew for places in the […]

Burin: Who is Harassing Whom?

Following an incident at Burin, at a special Law Committee session dealing with so-called “settler violence,” Rabbis for Human Rights Executive Director Avi Dabush was honoured with having had the closing remark in the press release summarizing the session: Givat Ronen is known as a place that harasses Palestinians.. . . We will return to […]