Overview
- More than 2,000 Israeli artists and hundreds of Diaspora philanthropists and rabbis published open letters urging a crackdown on what they call Jewish‑extremist terror in the West Bank.
- The London Initiative helped organize the Diaspora letter, which asks President Isaac Herzog to press Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and far-right ministers to stop the attacks and hold offenders accountable.
- Israeli military leaders redirected soldiers from the Lebanon front to the West Bank and warned that the unrest there is worsening a manpower shortage across the army.
- Recent settler assaults have included arson, village raids and reported killings, with seven Palestinians said to have been killed in the last month and with reports of little enforcement by police.
- Haaretz reports that West Bank police and the Shin Bet have been sidelined and that lines between settlers and soldiers have blurred, while some religious‑Zionist rabbis are now urging their leaders to curb the violence.