West Bank attack victim was recent graduate of US school

An American student identified as Ezra Schwartz has been confirmed as one of five people killed in terrorist attacks in Israel by Palestinian suspects on Thursday. Two other Palestinians died of wounds they sustained after being shot by Israeli forces during protests on 11 and 12 November.

“Forces on site fired towards the vehicle, identifying a hit”, an army statement said. “This makes his death even more tragic”, Natan Sharansky, chairman of the Jewish Agency, said.

Schwartz had recently graduated from the Maimonides School in Brookline, Mass. May the Schwartz family and the Maimonides School family be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a November 9 meeting with US President Barack Obama, was said to have spoken of measures aimed at easing tensions amid the wave of Palestinian attacks.

According to police, the attack took place in southern Tel Aviv, in a shop on the second floor of an office building where a group of Israelis had gathered to hold afternoon prayers.

But more visits in recent years by Jewish religious activists and ultra-nationalist Israeli politicians to the complex, where two biblical temples once stood, have done little to convince the Palestinians.

Yesterday Palestinian terrorists murdered four Israelis and a Palestinian bystander.

According to the Federation of Israeli Industrialists, there are a few 600 Israeli factories operating in the West Bank, including a number of huge export companies.

In another day of violence last month, three Israelis and three Palestinians, including two said by Israel to have been attackers, were killed.

Israelis and Palestinians buried their dead on Friday (Nov 20) after one of the deadliest days in almost eight weeks of lone wolf violence that is challenging Israeli security thinking.

There can be no justification for a spate of deliberate deadly attacks by Palestinians on civilians over the past week in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories which displayed a clear contempt for human life, said Amnesty global.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians with work permits travel into Israel daily and are traditionally perceived as a low threat. In the Tel Aviv area, there hadn’t been any attacks for the past two weeks.

Also Thursday, Israeli Maj.

Palestinian mobile operators Paltel and Wataniya, still using 2G technology and losing money, want to offer 3G to meet surging demand for data bandwidth for social media applications.

Several Palestinian factions and political powers had earlier called on the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza for a day of rage to back the Palestinian Uprising against Israel. The agreement will not enable 4G service for Palestinians, nor will it cover the Gaza Strip. The officer was sentenced Wednesday.

Member of Parliament Meyer Habib, a French-Israeli who represents French citizens overseas in Israel and other countries, said it was time for the free world to “put an end to jihad, once and for all, Sunni and Shi’ite”.