Near Ofra, Arabs stoned Magen Dovid Adom paramedics who responded to a traffic accident, injuring them. Police responded in force and arrested three. IDF forces stationed near Hizma were confronted by Arab rioters who hurled stones and firebombs ...

First Sergeant Moshe Naftali of Ofra, who was killed in the terror attack on Route 12 near Eilat last August, received on Sunday a posthumous citation from the Head of Southern Command. The announcement about Naftali’s citation was made in late April.

Speaking with Army radio on Monday, Barak said that Israel planned to annex both Ofra and Bet El, two communities with a combined population of some 9,000 residents, "on any map anyone thinks will be part of a permanent arrangement." In response ...

He, himself, is not accused of any violent act. Since October 10, Ismael has been held at the Ofra detention facility near Ramallah. This is the first time Ismael was detained. His parents are banned from seeing him. No official explanation is given for this ban.

“The greatest and most complex challenge we faced was how to create reasonable conditions under impossible circumstances,” says Ofra Paz, director of the UNITAF Project. Below the school is the commercial bazaar whose photogenic, romantic and ...

Barak said he believed that Beit El, along with the neighboring Ofra settlement, would remain part of Israel in any final status agreement with the Palestinians. But he said, the issue here is not the future of the settlements, but Israel’s standing in ...

Ofra, Gilo, Beit El, Givon, to ensure that the capital and its flanks are secured, and underpinned by urban and rural settlements.” Peres elaborated: “These settlements will be connected to the Coastal Plain and Jordan Valley by new lateral axis roads ...