Hilltop youth

How Israel's hilltop settlers coordinate attacks to expel Palestinians - analysis

Most of the world considers all Israel's settlement activity in the West Bank illegal under international law relating to military occupations. Israel disputes this view.

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A masked man prepares to hurl stones at Palestinians who had gathered for the annual olive harvest season, during an attack by Israeli settlers on the Palestinian village of Beita, south of Nablus in the West Bank, on October 10, 2025.
An attorney has urged the Shin Bet to act after three Jewish hilltop youth allegedly attacked a pregnant Arab woman in Jaffa, warning that settler violence is being shifted from the West Bank into Israel’s cities.

Attorney urges Shin Bet action after alleged Jaffa attack by Hilltop Youth

An attorney claimed the Shin Bet policy of relocating violent settlers into Israel proper has led to rising threats in mixed cities like Jaffa, endangering residents’ safety.

|ByHODAYA RAN
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Police arrest Hilltop Youth for 'racist attack' on pregnant Arab woman, family in Jaffa - KAN

According to initial reports, KAN explained, the Hilltop Youth assaulted the woman while she sat in her car with her family, spraying them with pepper spray while shouting "dirty Arab."

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli security forces clash with Jewish settlers during the evacuation of Illegal structures in Tzur Misgavi, an outpost in Gush Etzion, in the West Bank, November 17, 2025

Israel must restore equality under the law or risk collapse of its liberal democracy - opinion

A danger that Israel's liberal democracy might collapse does exist, unless a change takes place in the foreseeable future in the way the state is being run.

|BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF

Settlers file police complaint against author Amos Oz for incitement to racial hatred

Amos Oz castigated hilltop youth as Hebrew neo-Nazis, condemning those who carry out ‘price-tag’ attacks on Muslims and Christians.

MAY 11, 2014ByJPOST.COM STAFF
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Amos Oz: Hilltop youth are Hebrew neo-Nazis

The Israeli author says "price tag" attacks and their perpetrators are "a monster that should be called by its name."

MAY 10, 2014ByJPOST.COM STAFF
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