A busload of high school junior girls from Maaleh Levonah - a small Jewish community near Eli and Shilo - set out from their school Monday afternoon towards Jerusalem. North of Ofrah, near the hostile Arab village of Sinjil, a round of gunshots rang out, and though the bus is mostly bulletproof, three girls were wounded by shrapnel.
Three other girls - both of whom lost brothers at the hand of Palestinian terrorist murderers, and one who lost both parents in a terrorist shooting - were treated on the scene for shock.
Jews from the Shilo area conducted a morning prayer service at the site of the shooting the next morning.
It was originally thought that the play for the school's commencement exercises the next night would be canceled because of the injuries of some of the actresses, but in fact, the show in Maaleh Levonah went on as scheduled - with the participation of all the peformers.
Last week, two 9th graders from Maaleh Levonah were saved from an Arab kidnapping attempt as they waited on the highway for a ride to Jerusalem. One girl ran away as the armed Arabs got out of the car and made their way towards her, while the other was nearly pushed into the car, but escaped with several scratches on her face when an army car happened along at that moment.
This coming Thursday, at 4:30 PM, in response to the near-abduction, a small group of women will demonstrate Jewish presence on the roads of Shomron by walking from Tapuach to Eli.
The group has been making similar walks for the past four months. Without any official army escort, they have made their way from Tapuach to Ariel, from Ramat Gilad to Karnei Shomron, from Yakir to Emanuel, and along other routes. They invite others to join up; call Ruthie at 0577-208135.
Arabs attacked an Israeli car with rocks near Karnei Shomron Tuesday morning; damage was caused, and no one was hurt.
In Yitzhar, at a hilltop outpost known as Hilltop 725 - one of those on Defense Minister Amir Peretz's list of outposts to demolish forthwith - a soldier shot over the heads of Jews Tuesday afternoon. The Jews were in the midst of trying to banish an Arab who had approached their homes with his car, and the soldier was trying to deter them. Just over a week ago, a policeman fired in the air at a group of Jews during a scuffle.
Arab terrorists fired an anti-tank missile from northern Gaza late Wednesday morning, causing no damage.
Early Wednesday morning, an IDF force encountered two armed terrorists in the Shechem region, and opened fire, killing one - Daoud Katuni. Katuni was responsible for dispatching the suicide terrorist who, dressed as a religious hitchhiker, entered a Jewish car and blew himself up at the entrance to Kedumim. Four Jews were murdered in that attack three months ago: Rafi and Helena Levy, 20-year veterans of Kedumim; Reut Feldman of Herzliya, who was on a year of National Service in Kedumim; and Shaked Lasker, a 16-year-old from Kedumim.
Three other girls - both of whom lost brothers at the hand of Palestinian terrorist murderers, and one who lost both parents in a terrorist shooting - were treated on the scene for shock.
Jews from the Shilo area conducted a morning prayer service at the site of the shooting the next morning.
It was originally thought that the play for the school's commencement exercises the next night would be canceled because of the injuries of some of the actresses, but in fact, the show in Maaleh Levonah went on as scheduled - with the participation of all the peformers.
Last week, two 9th graders from Maaleh Levonah were saved from an Arab kidnapping attempt as they waited on the highway for a ride to Jerusalem. One girl ran away as the armed Arabs got out of the car and made their way towards her, while the other was nearly pushed into the car, but escaped with several scratches on her face when an army car happened along at that moment.
This coming Thursday, at 4:30 PM, in response to the near-abduction, a small group of women will demonstrate Jewish presence on the roads of Shomron by walking from Tapuach to Eli.
The group has been making similar walks for the past four months. Without any official army escort, they have made their way from Tapuach to Ariel, from Ramat Gilad to Karnei Shomron, from Yakir to Emanuel, and along other routes. They invite others to join up; call Ruthie at 0577-208135.
Arabs attacked an Israeli car with rocks near Karnei Shomron Tuesday morning; damage was caused, and no one was hurt.
In Yitzhar, at a hilltop outpost known as Hilltop 725 - one of those on Defense Minister Amir Peretz's list of outposts to demolish forthwith - a soldier shot over the heads of Jews Tuesday afternoon. The Jews were in the midst of trying to banish an Arab who had approached their homes with his car, and the soldier was trying to deter them. Just over a week ago, a policeman fired in the air at a group of Jews during a scuffle.
Arab terrorists fired an anti-tank missile from northern Gaza late Wednesday morning, causing no damage.
Early Wednesday morning, an IDF force encountered two armed terrorists in the Shechem region, and opened fire, killing one - Daoud Katuni. Katuni was responsible for dispatching the suicide terrorist who, dressed as a religious hitchhiker, entered a Jewish car and blew himself up at the entrance to Kedumim. Four Jews were murdered in that attack three months ago: Rafi and Helena Levy, 20-year veterans of Kedumim; Reut Feldman of Herzliya, who was on a year of National Service in Kedumim; and Shaked Lasker, a 16-year-old from Kedumim.