by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) A ministerial committee headed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak has given its final approval to the purchase of F-35 warplanes from the United States. Senior IDF officials took part in the final decision. “Purchasing this fighter jet, the most technically advanced on earth, is a significant […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is asking Members of Congress to urge the Obama Administration and the State Department to stop pressuring Israel to extend the 10-month freeze on Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria which is due to end on September 26. The ZOA is also continuing to urge Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]

By Lisa Damast Israel is at the cutting edge of some of the best Internet technologies around. ISRAEL21c takes a look at the brightest new companies that are now revolutionizing the web. Israel’s success in the technology sector is no secret. Over the years, the country has become a key research and development center for […]

by David Lev and Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) Terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza Sunday morning attack Israel after the IDF retaliated for Kassam missile attacks on the Rosh HaShanah holiday. Two rockets exploded in the area of Sderot, one of them landing next to a kibbutz field. No injuries or damage was reported. On Thursday, Gaza […]

Yoram Ettinger, September 8, 2010 Based on Jewish Sages 1. Rosh Hashanah – unlike all other Jewish holidays – is a universal (stock-taking, renewal and hopeful) holiday. It is celebrated on the sixth day of The Creation, which produced the first human being, Adam. Rosh (Hashanah) means in Hebrew “beginning,” “first,” “head,” “chief.” The Hebrew […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) Nonstop rock-throwing attacks by Arabs against Jews in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Shimon HaTzaddik led to the wounding of an eight-year-old Jewish boy Sunday afternoon. The child was treated on the spot by Magen David Adom emergency services and a complaint was filed with police. A resident of the neighborhood […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel will not extend the freeze on Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria past the end of September, but will not carry out all of its planned construction there either. In a meeting with Middle East Quartet representative Tony Blair, Netanyahu explained that he […]

BY CAL THOMAS tmseditors@tribune.com `Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Never has George Santayana’s oft-quoted warning had greater significance than when it comes to Middle East “peace talks,” including the latest round scheduled to begin Sept. 2 in Washington, D.C. In constantly pressuring Israel to go far beyond the multiple […]

In response to the murder of four Israelis by Arab terrorists, President Obama said the following: ”[In this] tragedy…people were gunned down on the street by terrorists who are purposely trying to undermine these [Israeli-Palestinian peace] talks.” The aim of the terrorists, however, was not to stop peace talks. The attack occurred close to the […]

by Rachel Saperstein (Israelnationalnews.com) “Where shall we meet?” they asked, ‘they’ being Rabbi Chaim Eisen, his wife Reya, and our dear Dutch friends Christa and Johan Rhodius. These four had lived in our home in Gush Katif – as did some twenty to thirty others – for the last month before our expulsion. Rabbi Eisen, […]