Josef Federman

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East Jerusalem construction plan moves ahead

Josef Federman · October 1, 2014 6:16 pm

Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, speaks during the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Monday, Sept. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

National Security

Israel, Palestinians part ways in dueling speeches

Josef Federman · September 30, 2014 6:42 pm

Palestinians laborers work at a construction site in the Jewish West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, near Jerusalem. Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. Israel's settler population in the West Bank increased by 2 percent in the first half of the year, an advocacy group announced Tuesday, signaling robust growth in the settlements even while Israel was conducting peace talks with the Palestinians. The new figures drew criticism from the Palestinians, who seek the West Bank as part of a future state. The Palestinians and most of the international community consider Israeli construction there to be illegal or illegitimate. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

West Bank settler group boasts rapid growth

Josef Federman · September 16, 2014 6:26 pm

This undated image released by the Israel Defense Forces on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014 shows a graphic overlay of a satellite image that purports to show Hamas military compounds next to civilian houses and a hospital of Jebaliya, northern Gaza Strip. With a 50-day war in Gaza behind it, the Israeli military is gearing up for what could become its next big battle: the possibility that a U.N. investigation could result in war-crimes allegations. The army has beefed up its legal staff, is conducting internal investigations of its wartime actions and has prepared a detailed PR campaign of satellite photos and video clips_ all with the goal of explaining why its campaign was justified and necessary. (AP Photo/Israel Defense Forces)

Jittery Israel gears up for war crimes battle

Josef Federman · September 4, 2014 6:52 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. Israel's prime minister declared victory Wednesday in the recent war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, saying the military campaign had dealt a heavy blow and a cease-fire deal gave no concessions to the Islamic militant group.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Europe seeks role in postwar Gaza

Josef Federman · August 28, 2014 7:40 pm

FILE - This undated file image released by the Israel Defense Forces shows a combination of three photos of Israeli teens Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, a 16-year-old with dual Israeli-American citizenship, who disappeared while hitchhiking home near the West Bank city of Hebron late at night on June 12, 2014, and were never heard from again. Their bodies were found two weeks later. Saleh Arouri, a senior Hamas leader, said on Wednesday, Aug. 20, that the group carried out the kidnapping and killing of the three Israeli teens in the West Bank in June - the first time anyone from the Islamic militant group has said it was behind the attack that helped spark the current war in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Israel Defense Forces, File)

Hamas admits kidnapping Israeli teens

Josef Federman · August 21, 2014 8:38 pm

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man carries the body of Avrohom Wallis during his funeral in Jerusalem, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. An assault carried out with a construction vehicle served as another reminder of the tense climate. Israeli TV stations broadcast a series of amateur videos of the attack, in which a Palestinian man used the front shovel of a construction excavator to ram a bus and tip it over. Police said a man who worked at the site was run over and killed by the construction vehicle. He was identified as a 29-year-old religious inspector whose job was to ensure that ancient graves were not damaged by construction work. A policeman who happened to be in the area shot the driver, who was identified as a resident of a Palestinian neighborhood in east Jerusalem. The man's uncle, Hisham Jaabis, said the incident was a traffic accident and that his nephew had been gunned down in cold blood while trying to dodge the bus. "All of them started shooting at him," he said. In the past, Palestinian attackers have gone on deadly rampages with bulldozers in Jerusalem traffic. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israel, Hamas accept Egyptian cease-fire plan

Josef Federman · August 5, 2014 3:00 am

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he speaks during a press conference at the defense ministry in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on Friday, July 11, 2014. Netanyahu said he will not cave in to international pressure to stop a military offensive in the Gaza Strip. He told a news conference Friday that Israel will continue its offensive until rocket fire out of Gaza is halted. (AP photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool)

As deaths rise, no end seen to Israeli offensive

Josef Federman · July 11, 2014 9:41 pm

Palestinians search the wreckage of vehicle reportedly belonging to a taxi driver working for a local media company following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. Wednesday, July 9, 2014. Israel stepped up its offensive on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Wednesday, pummeling scores of targets and killing more than a dozen people as Israeli leaders signaled a weeks-long ground invasion could be quickly approaching. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Israel steps up offensive as diplomacy kicks off

Josef Federman · July 10, 2014 2:23 am

Israeli FM ends alliance with Netanyahu

Josef Federman · July 7, 2014 10:34 am

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in his office in Jerusalem, Sunday, July 6, 2014. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israel would act calmly and responsibly in the face of rising Israeli-Palestinian hostilities, just hours after Israel's military carried out airstrikes on 10 sites in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool)

Hamas says 7 militants killed in Israeli strikes

Josef Federman · July 7, 2014 4:05 am

Israeli soldiers stand at a damaged home after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza, landed in the southern town of Sderot Thursday, July 3,2014. Israeli military carried out airstrikes on the Gaza Strip after Palestinian militants fired rockets into Israel early Thursday. The Israeli military said the air force struck 15 "terror sites" in Gaza. "The targets included weapons manufacturing sites as well as training facilities," a military spokesman said. (AP Photo / Tsafrir Abayov)

Israel rushes forces to southern border with Gaza

Josef Federman · July 3, 2014 8:04 pm