Micah Halpern When Ephraim Halevy has something to say, people listen. And Halevy, former chief of the Mossad, does not believe Israelis should be involved in American politics. The Obama camp, apparently, thinks otherwise. In an Obama ad running on YouTube and on television and radio, prominent Israeli heroes are seen and heard endorsing Barack […]

By Philippe Karsenty A week before Americans vote, Obama has already been elected President of the United States…of Europe. From first hand experience, I can tell you that the French love him and have already chosen him for their/your president. It’s true! Only last month, his victory was celebrated on the cover of a French […]

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (IsraelNN.com) A Palestinian Authority newspaper reported on Sunday that Arab residents of Gaza are randomly calling Americans at home in hopes of persuading them to vote for Democratic candidate Senator Barack Obama in next month’s US presidential election. The article in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, first noted and translated by Palestinian Media Watch, quotes […]

By Dr. Paul Kengor On October 6, 1973, the Egyptian army pulled off a devastating attack on Israel – payback for the Arab defeat in the Six Day War of June 1967. This week marks the 35th anniversary of that attack, which came as a surprise to almost everyone. Among the few who suspected there […]

Oct. 27, 2008 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s failure to form a government proved that all roads do in fact lead to Jerusalem. It was the issue of Jerusalem that deadlocked and ultimately scuttled Livni’s coalition negotiations with Shas, which demanded that she pledge not to negotiate the partition of […]

Avraham Shmuel Lewin, Jewish Press Israel Correspondent Posted Oct 22 2008 ‘I Will Be The Next Mayor Of Jerusalem’ , Avraham Shmuel Lewin, Jewish Press Israel Correspondent The Jewish Press Speaks With MK Meir Porush Seven days after Americans go to the polls to elect a new president on Nov. 4, Jerusalemites will be voting […]

David Wilder October 26, 2008 The Jewish Community of Hebron P.O. Box 105, Kiryat Arba 90100 Israel Tel: 972-2-9965333; Fax: 972-2-9965304 Last night at just after one o’clock my cell phone rang. When the phone rings at 1:00 in the morning, at least in my house, something is wrong. Orit Struck was on the other […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) Would-be Prime Minister Tzipi Livni announced Saturday night she will tell President Shimon Peres early Sunday morning she is throwing in the towel on trying to form a new government coalition and will opt for new elections. Her decision followed a demand by Shas chairman and Cabinet minister Eli Yishai, […]

By Morton A. Klein and Daniel Mandel JewishChronicle.org | Thursday, October 09, 2008 On June 20, 1995, the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin boasted, “[The Opposition] promised us Katyusha [rockets] from Gaza, but Gaza has been under the primary control of the Palestinian Authority for more than a year now, and there hasn’t been […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 23 October 2008 “In an effort to maintain momentum on the ground in the absence of a peace deal with the Palestinians, Defense Minister Ehud Barak has drawn up a plan under which Palestinian security forces would take control of several key West Bank cities during the coming year. The “Jenin […]