Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has agreed to convene a restricted forum of ministers and other public officials to discuss the danger that the Temple Mount’s southern wall may collapse. Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert, Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein, security force heads and Antiquities Authority officials are expected to participate. The issue burst onto the public scene yesterday […]

WASHINGTON — I was dubious at first. But now I think Dick Cheney has it right. Making the case for going to war in the Middle East to veterans on Monday, the vice president said that “our goal would be . . . a government that is democratic and pluralistic, a nation where the human […]

It is hard to believe how much has taken place over the last few weeks. Just three weeks ago Mordechai and a group of friends began renovating the caravan designated for his sister (the bride) and her fiance. We worked till the last minute making sure their first home would be one happily remembered. A […]

I’d rather be rotting in prison than sitting "Shiva" for the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who could have died because of my cowardice." A statement by Jonathan Pollard when asked why he gave information to Israel. "The reasons that I did what I did in April of 1985 were personal, banal and amounted really […]

A Palestinian-launched mortar shell slammed into a house in a Gush Katif community in Israel’s southern Mediterranean costal area last night, causing severe damage. Three children were treated for shock-like symptoms. Oshrit Greenberg of N’vei Dekalim recounted for Arutz-7 today what happened when the mortar shell exploded in her home last night: “It was 11:20 […]

When the media furor was at its peak – a few days after the liquidation of Hamas activist Saleh Shehadeh in the Gaza Strip on July 22, by means of a one-ton bomb that killed 15 civilians – Israel Air Force Commander Major General Dan Halutz met with the pilot who dropped the bomb and […]

Following last week’s bombshell news of the involvement of five Israeli-Arabs from the Jerusalem area in three murderous terrorist attacks, the police and GSS came out with another shocker (for some) this morning: Seven Arab citizens of Israel from the Galilee – all members of the extended Bakri family of the village Ba’na – have […]

Talk about a bad idea. For Israel to release Palestinian tax revenues while neither the Palestinian Authority nor the other Palestinian terrorists organizations have changed their stripes is counterproductive. The message the PA gets is this: If we just stay corrupt and keep killing Israeli civilians, eventually Israel will fold. There is a very simple, […]

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – The scenes are grimly familiar. In the Gaza Strip, Palestinian children carrying rifles chant, ”Ya Saddam! Ya Saddam!” and goad the Iraqi leader to lob Scud missiles at Israel. Up the Mediterranean coast, in the basement of a Tel Aviv kindergarten, 20 teachers watch a soldier demonstrate how to administer atropine, an […]

It is said that the Arabs are big believers in grand conspiracies. When they see Israeli leaders act foolishly, the Arabs interpret the foolishness as if it were part of a sophisticated Israeli plot. But I find it hard to believe that even the most suspicious Arab thinks that the latest news from Israel is […]