This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareJERUSALEM — Nearly five years after the brutal killing of a Palestinian family in the West Bank village of Duma, an Israeli court on Monday convicted a Jewish extremist on three counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder but stopped short of finding the perpetrator guilty of membership in a terrorist organization.According to Israeli authorities, Amiram Ben-Uliel lobbed a molotov cocktail through the window of the Dawabshe family home in the early morning of July 31, 2015, sparking a fire that spread rapidly as...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareJERUSALEM — Nearly five years after the brutal killing of a Palestinian family in the West Bank village of Duma, an Israeli court on Monday convicted a Jewish extremist on three counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder but stopped short of finding the perpetrator guilty of membership in a terrorist organization.According to Israeli authorities, Amiram Ben-Uliel lobbed a molotov cocktail through the window of the Dawabshe family home in the early morning of July 31, 2015, sparking a fire that spread rapidly as...WW…

This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareUMM AL-FAHM, Israel — Leila Jabarin looked every inch the matriarch of the Muslim family that surrounded her on a recent morning, encircled by some of her 36 grandchildren in a living room rich with Arabic chatter and the scent of cardamom-flavored coffee.But Jabarin, her hair covered with a brown headscarf, was talking to visitors in Hebrew, not Arabic, and telling a story that not even her seven children knew until they were grown. She was born not Leila Jabarin, but Helene Berschatzky, not a Muslim but a Jew. Her...…This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareUMM AL-FAHM, Israel — Leila Jabarin looked every inch the matriarch of the Muslim family that surrounded her on a recent morning, encircled by some of her 36 grandchildren in a living room rich with Arabic chatter and the scent of cardamom-flavored coffee.But Jabarin, her hair covered with a brown headscarf, was talking to visitors in Hebrew, not Arabic, and telling a story that not even her seven children knew until they were grown. She was born not Leila Jabarin, but Helene Berschatzky, not a Muslim but a Jew. Her...WW…