Miriam Naor, President of the Supreme Court of Israel, shortly before the ceremony of the Jewish Law Fellow Award, conferred on Judge Elyakim Rubinstein, at the President’s Residence.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touring southern Tel Aviv.

Ultra-Orthodox from the Hapeleg Hayerushalmi (followers of Rav Shmuel Auerbach) demonstrating against enlistment of ultra-Orthodox in the IDF.

From its earliest days, Amona was an illegal military outpost, which was settled in August 1995 near Ofra. The settlement’s land was privately owned by local Palestinians. In 1996 three caravans were set up and inhabited by settlers. Over time more families joined, and prior to late 2005 some thirty families lived on an area of approximately 400 dunams.

In February 2006, the inhabitants of nine illegal permanent buildings were evacuated and the buildings demolished, after the police force evacuated thousands of barricaded demonstrators. In 2008, several Palestinian landowners appealed to the Supreme Court arguing that the entire settlement was built on land that was not owned by the inhabitants. In late 2014 the Supreme Court ruled that the entire outpost should be evacuated within two years.

In early 2015 some fifty families lived in the settlement which was the largest outpost in Judea and Samaria. The Settlement Movement launched a wide-ranging media campaign with the objective of annulling the Supreme Court ruling, however after repeated postponements a decision was taken to evacuate the settlement in the winter of 2017. Again, hundreds of young people came and barricaded themselves. Scenes
from the Gaza disengagement were reenacted, but the protest was of no avail. On 1 February the settlement was evacuated and several days later, demolished.

Huge fires broke out in several locations in the center and north of Israel. The fire demolished houses and hundreds of dunams of natural woodland.

On 14 July, three Israeli Arabs, residents of Umm al-Fahm, shot to death two Border Police officers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque square (1). In response, the prime minister ordered placing metal detectors at the gates leading to Temple Mount. Members of the Waqf opposed this move, instructing the Muslims to refuse to go to Temple Mount until the detectors were removed, calling them to pray demonstratively outside the compound (2). Protest activity led to harsh confrontations between Palestinian youth and the Security Forces in East Jerusalem and the West Bank (3, 4). The cabinet decided to remove the metal detectors and replace them with different security means. Members of the Waqf opposed this move as well and violent conflicts continued in the course of which four Palestinians were killed (5). On 21 July a terrorist entered the settlement of Halamish, murdered three members of the Salomon family and severely injured the mother. He claimed that he did this for Al-Aqsa. The crisis lasted for two weeks and eventually Israel removed all security measures from the compound (6).

Director of the Hadassah Medical Center, Prof. Zeev Rotstein, ordered to combine the pediatric and adult hematology-oncology transplant departments. This move was part of an overall financial recovery plan for the hospital. Prof. Mickey Weintraub, head of the department, and the team of physicians, refused to carry out this move, claiming that it would be detrimental to the children. The children’s parents protested and the attempts of the minister of health to bring about a compromise between the parties, failed. Finally, in response to the physicians’ requests, the matter was submitted to the Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the management. Prof. Weintraub and his team resigned from the hospital, and the children were dispersed in various hospitals for treatment.

In the photo, the father of one of the children treated in the department verbally attacks the hospital director, Prof. Rotstein.

Leah Goldin, mother of kidnapped soldier Hadar Goldin, hurling a paper cup filled with water at Knesset Members David Bitan and Miki Zohar, following their insensitive remarks at the State Control Committee meeting which reviewed the conclusions of the Operation Protective Edge.

Evacuation of Jewish inhabitants whose homes were built on Palestinian land.

Funeral of Sergeant Elhai Teharlev, who was murdered in a vehicle-ramming attack. In the photo, his younger brother.

The labor party’s chairperson, Avi Gabbay, at his victory speech at the party primaries.

Soldiers evacuated from a vehicle-ramming arena, in which four of their companions were murdered and thirteen injured.

Knesset Member Oren Hazan pushing himself into a selfie photo with US President Donald Trump, during the official ceremony on the occasion of his first visit to Israel.

Funeral of Israel’s former president, Shimon Peres, who passed away at the age of 93. In the photo, Peres’s great grandson, Ari.