Turkish Capt. Huseyin Ozaslah describes Palestinian murder of his comrades Turkish Capt. Huseyin Ozaslah, a member of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) observers team that was attacked by a Palestinian terrorist on Tuesday night, was phone-interviewed in English on Israel Radio on his way to the hospital. The following is a transcript prepared […]

Thousands of army reservists were activated over the weekend, even on the Sabbath, and called to the Ramallah area in Binyamin. The suddenness of the call-up found the army without sufficient food supplies, but the residents of Beit El came to the rescue. Over 2,000 soldiers who were called to the army base outside Beit […]

(30 March – 23:35pm) 26 persons were wounded in the suicide bombing attack in Tel Aviv on King George Street. At about 9:11pm Saturday night, the suicide bomber entered the Bialik Café [also known as My Coffee Shop] and detonated what police called a relatively large bomb. UPDATE ON THE VICTIMS There are 26 victims […]

Palestinian warfare continued today, albeit at a reduced pace. A suicide terrorist attack failed this afternoon in the Shomron, when an Arab approached Israeli policemen with an explosives pack. The bomb did not go off, however. A car bomb exploded near the Biblical Zoo in southern Jerusalem this morning, miraculously killing only the two terrorists […]

The respect with which Moslem Arab leaders can be expected to treat agreements reached with Jews was, yet again, made abundantly clear last week by Sheikh Mohammed Sayyid Tantawi, the leading Egyptian Sunni cleric and spiritual head of the al-Azhar University in Cairo. In late January, Tantawi was one of the Moslem representatives who attended […]

WASHINGTON — At the annual Jewish Seder (which was Jesus’ Last Supper, and is why Easter and Passover are so close), the youngest child will ask the Four Questions. The examination about the ancient Israelites’ flight to freedom begins with “Why is this night different from all other nights?” In Israel this week, however, the […]

NEW YORK – In the first three days since Vice President Dick Cheney offered to meet with Yasir Arafat if Palestinian Arab terrorism ceases, there have been at least 20 Palestinian Arab terrorist attacks, in which 11 Israelis were murdered and 123 were wounded. The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), which monitors Palestinian Arab terrorism, […]

It now appears that Prime Minister Sharon is leaning towards allowing arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat to attend the Arab League summit in Beirut – but Arafat himself may choose not to go. Arafat now says that if the Americans don’t issue guarantees that he will be allowed to return to the autonomous areas, he will choose […]

As an alumnus of the inaugural March of the Living, I was appalled to read in the Israeli media that the March has cancelled the Israel leg of its 2002 journey. The definition of a march is a purposeful journey, on foot, from a starting point to a final goal. As a participant in the […]

A major terrorist attack was thwarted this afternoon when IDF soldiers of the elite Egoz unit, covered and aided by combat helicopters, killed four terrorists just southeast of the Kinneret Sea. Thus ended an operation that began the night before when Jordan notified Israel that terrorist-cell tracks had been detected. Only later this afternoon was […]