West Bank
3 stories from Middle East Affairs.
Israeli military figure attacks rabbi's ban on voting for party with Arab candidate
A retired Israeli general defended an Arab candidate on his new political party after a prominent rabbi said Jewish law forbids voting for a party with a non-Jewish member in a senior position.
Report raises questions about activist's background ahead of deportation hearing
A 101-page report by researchers David Collier and Rachel Feldman questions the accounts given by Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia graduate student facing deportation, claiming his public biography contradicts years of archived social media posts.
Israeli checkpoints and barriers fragment West Bank, Palestinian officials say
Movement restrictions across the occupied West Bank have reached their highest level in two decades, with hundreds of checkpoints, gates and barriers fragmenting Palestinian territory and damaging the economy.
