When I received information about the shooting at the Gush Etzion junction this week, my first thought was, “Where is my daughter?” Ophira was in Jerusalem and frequently comes home to Hebron, ‘tramping’ (or hitching in Americanese) from the Gush Etzion intersection. I tried calling her cell phone, but she didn’t answer. I tried a […]

“No democratic country should ever abandon its citizens like this,” stated MK Dr. Uzi Landau on Wednesday after viewing the conditions of Jews expelled from Gush Katif and northern Samaria. Landau, who is running for the leadership of the Likud party, has called for the Likud Party to debate the issue in two weeks’ time […]

The load of misery which Ariel Sharon inflicted on the Jews of Gush Katif has affected the nerves, the hearts and the minds of myriads (conceivably a majority) of the Jews in Israel. In the tragedy of the expulsion an effective supporting role was played by most of the Hebrew media. Shockingly, neither they nor […]

The Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz, has stated that Israel has a military option to defeat terrorism and bring it down “very close to zero.” In a detailed interview, Halutz disagrees with the tired argument that there is no military solution to the problem of terrorism. He has said that only […]

Dear S.A. Halevy, Shalom. I don’t know who you are, but your identity is not important. The issue is your article entitled _”Leaving Israel Because I’m Disengaged”_ (http://jewishvoiceandopinion.com/pdf/200509.pdf) . Reading your article, I felt your deep anguish, your almost physical pain as you tried to express in mere words your disillusionment, frustration, and helpless anger […]

Hillel Fendel, writing for Arutz Sheva on Oct. 17, describes the Land of Israel Legal Forum second report to the State Comptroller, entitled, “THE FAILURES IN CARING FOR THOSE UPROOTED FROM GUSH KATIF AND NORTHERN SHOMRON.” “The 19-page report details all that went wrong with the government’s treatment of the residents after their expulsion. The […]

Terrorists from the PA fired on a hitchhikers on Route 60 in Gush Etzion south of Jerusalem, killing three and wounding five. In a similar attack near Eli, north of Jerusalem, one Jew was wounded. Two young women and one boy were murdered in the attack in Gush Etzion, as Arabs driving by opened fire […]

The western media corps largely ignores Muslim violence against Christians in the Holy Land For years, media outlets have largely refused to report one of the most troubling aspects of the Mideast conflict ― Muslim intimidation and violence against Christians in Palestinian-controlled areas. The latest shocking episode again made its way to very few news […]

by Judy Lash Balint 1. You can’t get on a bus without being poked in the rear a dozen times with someone’s stray lulav. 2. The sweet smell of etrogim in Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda (Yehuda Market) is overpowering. Huge crowds descend on the parking lot near the market to vie for the best lulav and […]

The Gush Katif fact-finding mission of Rabbi Pesach Lerner, the executive vice president of the Young Israel National Council, next took us to our last stop of the day, to the Alon Shvut Yeshiva in Gush Etzion where fourteen young families from the Shirat Hayam settlement were living in the dormitory. The plight of the […]