Jewish Extremism

Israeli society must reclaim the Torah’s moral core - opinion

Violence, extremism, and division are distorting Torah values in parts of Israeli society and religious life.

An Israeli settler argues with a Palestinian farmer, during olive harvesting in Silwad, near Ramallah, October 29, 2025.
NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir leads Otzma Yehudit faction meeting at the Knesset, on Monday.

Do Ben-Gvir’s flotilla follies make him Israel’s anti-Zionist of the year? - opinion

‘We were taught to love each other, not to hate. Christians are a peaceful community,’ says Naji Mansour, owner of Mansour Money Change in the Old City. PremiumPremium

'I refuse to hide my cross': Jerusalem's Christians describe a climate of fear

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and committee head MK Zvika Fogel attend a National Security committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament on March 24, 2026.

Israel must confront Jewish extremism while rejecting Europe’s double standards - editorial


Israel and the Diaspora: Abandonment of the Jews?

The Jerusalem Post

Jewish extremists accused of targeting, beating Palestinians in Jerusalem

Police deny report of not intervening in Lehava assault that led to one victim hospitalized.

Ben-Zion Gopstein (left), leader of the group Lehava, gathers with some of his young followers in Jerusalem in 2014

Palestinian family sues Israel for failing to prevent deadly arson attack

Jewish extremist Amiram Ben Uliel was indicted in January 2016 for the terror attack, which killed Saad and Reham Dawabshe and their infant son, Ali.

A man looks out of a house badly damaged by a firebomb attack by suspected Jewish extremists in the Palestinian village of Duma in the West Bank, July 31, 2015

Ramat Hasharon mayor threatened by Jewish extremist group

Speaking to Hebrew media, the mayor said he was “shocked” and called the threat “terrorism in every way.”

Threatening letter and bullet found in Ramat Hasharon mayor's car

We’ll do it our way

Polly Bronstein says she "came back to Israel in 2013 to a changed country."

Polly Bronstein

Jewish extremism

The big problem – one of Israel’s biggest – is the death grip in which the state holds the practice of Judaism.

Praying at the Western Wall

Dans la peau d’Yigal Amir

A travers l’analyse des motivations de l’assassin d’Yitzhak Rabin, Israël a longtemps cherché à comprendre comment il avait pu engendrer un tel fils

Yigal Amir, lors de la reconstitution de la scène  du crime

Have documents in the Duma arson case vanished in a cover-up?

Prosecution calls them ‘technical’ and unimportant.

A man looks out of a house badly damaged by a firebomb attack by suspected Jewish extremists in the Palestinian village of Duma in the West Bank, July 31, 2015

Female member of extremist group Lehava indicted on weapons charges

Lehava propagates the racist ideology of the late Jewish Defense League founder Meir Kahane, who was assassinated in New York City in 1990.

Sparring: Members of the Lehava movement protest. A sign reads, ‘Father, where is my mother?’

Jewish community must make clear: Hateful extremism will not be tolerated

The late rabbi Meir Kahane, pictured here on a poster.