by Aaron Klein A number of Christian and Jewish American groups have announced the formation of an umbrella organization that will lobby against acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s plan to withdraw Jewish communities from the West Bank, arguing in part any withdrawal would be against United States interests. “Olmert’s plan means the destruction of the […]

By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent 29 March 2006 www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/699804.html For the first time, Palestinians fired a 122mm Katyusha rocket, a much longer-range projectile than the Qassam, from the Gaza Strip into Israel, the IDF confirmed Tuesday night. The Katyusha was fired Tuesday morning. It caused no injuries or damage. Israel Channel 10 Television said the […]

By Ezra HaLevi The following is a breakdown of the 120 tentative members of the 17th Knesset and the parties they belong to. Party names are hyperlinked to their English web sites, where available. _Kadima_ (http://www.kadimasharon.co.il/11-en/index.aspx) ? 28 seats: Chairman Ehud Olmert, Shimon Peres, Tzipi Livni, Meir Sheetrit, Avi Dichter, Marina Solodkin, Haim Ramon, Shaul […]

Borders are interesting places to be. From the border, one needs to turn his back on the rest of the world to see the interior, while to focus on the outside world requires facing away from the interior. It induces a certain clarity of thought that sometimes is lacking in more muddled locales. Borders, of […]

Hanan Greenberg and Shmulik Hadad YNET 28 March 2006 www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/CdaNewsFlash/0,2297,L-3233163_3089,00.html [IMRA: South correspondent Nissim Keinan of Israel Radio reports that the daughter of the murdered man was also there and was able to report that she heard the shriek of an incoming rocket or mortar shell before the explosion. The media team covering Amir Peretz […]

The Arutz Sheva news and radio staff will be wide awake all night Tuesday to provide up-to-the-minute reporting and analysis as the ballots are counted for Israel’s national elections. Arutz Sheva’s homepage – IsraelNationalNews.com – will provide updated results showing the distribution of Knesset seats and the percentage of votes counted. The graph on the […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has repudiated as intellectually dishonest and anti-Semitic a pseudo-academic ‘Working Paper’ written by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, ‘The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy’, published as part of the Faculty Research Working Paper Series of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University […]

(IsraelNN.com) Israel’s Police have announced that the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, is now closed to Jews. The decision followed threats of Muslim violence leveled by Islamist Mufti of Jerusalem and other Arab leaders, who promised they would not allow rabbis to ascend the mount as planned Monday. The Movement for the Establishment of the […]

Researchers in Israel are working on a new treatment they hope will slow down the progressive deterioration suffered by patients with multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases. The new treatment uses the body’s own cells as a vaccine against autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS), according to Professor Irun R. Cohen of the Weizmann […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This column by Professor Beres was originally published in The Jewish Press ten years ago. It pointed out – even then – that Hamas power was rooted in Israeli capitulations and that if it were left unchecked, Hamas would ultimately become the official core of a murderous Palestinian state. Since the latest Arab […]