While the Palestinian and Israel Prime Ministers visit Washington to pursue high-level diplomatic discussions, a simple yet extraordinary humanitarian event occurred in the Mideast on Friday. Six elderly Iraqi Jews — remainders of what was once a vibrant and ancient community — were flown to safety in Israel, reuniting with long-lost family. The touching event […]

The Temple Mount is once again closed to Jewish visitors – adding “mourning to our mourning,” in the words of the Yesha Rabbis Council. Police Chief Shlomo Aharonishki says it was closed, in coordination with the government, for “operational” reasons. He did not respond to a request by Arutz-7’s Moshe Priel to enumerate those reasons. […]

Fawzal Abdullah Mohammed, a senior activist in Al-Qaida who is believed responsible for attacks against Israeli and American targets in Kenya and Tanzania recently arrived in east Africa and is plotting an attack with a light aircraft against an Israeli or American target, say Israeli security sources. He is on the FBI’s list of most […]

The Associated Press (AP) has adopted the word “militia” to refer to Palestinian terrorist groups such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades. Not only are Hamas and Islamic Jihad on both the U.S. and U.N. list of international terrorist organizations, but all three share a platform of targeting and killing civilians. […]

Editor`s Note: This past spring, HarperCollins released a book titled Terrorist Hunter: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman Who Went Undercover to Infiltrate the Radical Islamic Groups Operating in America. For obvious reasons, the author was billed as “Anonymous.” Just prior to its publication, “60 Minutes” did a segment on the book and named some […]

Echoing in stronger terms the warnings of many of Israel’s security leaders over the past weeks, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Yaalon said today that he is “beginning to count the days until the next outbreak of [Palestinian] violence.” Echoing in stronger terms the warnings of many of Israel’s security leaders over the past […]

The authors of the Road Map have not only seemingly failed to consider the moral implication for the Arabs themselves of a Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza (Yesha), but also completely disregarded other fundamental issues. One of them is the viability of such a state. Already in the 1970s, Israeli Professor Yehoshafat Harkabi, […]

Near the Israeli-Arab village of Kfar Kana, just north of Nazareth in the lower Galilee, searchers found the body of Oleg Shchaiat this morning. Thus came to a tragic end a week of an intense investigation into the sudden disappearance of the soldier. The police and Shabak surmise that Oleg, 20, was kidnapped by Arabs […]

The Doctors’ Plot was the beginning of the Communists’ Final Solution. Stalin’s Last Crime The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors 1948-1953 by Jonathan Brent and Vladimir P. Naumov HarperCollins, 399 pp., $26.95 THERE’S NOTHING NEW about the upsurge in recent months of leftist theories about Jewish conspiracies, particularly in Europe. Anti-Semitism has long been established […]

Alcohol, as it turns out, may be an effective and safe alternative to dangerous and complicated surgical procedures for patients suffering from Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Alcohol, it turns out, may be an effective and safe alternative to dangerous and complicated surgical procedures for patients suffering from Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. The Bikur Holim Hospital in Jerusalem is pioneering […]