By Sharon Kanon Unexpected findings of a new Israeli study reveal possible links between weight gain and dementia in middle age. Overweight-Man-Measuring-Waist A new study from Israel shows a reduced risk of dementia among men who maintain minimal mid-life weight fluctuations. Is being overweight a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias? Do fluctuations […]

by Dr. Rafael Medoff (Israelnationalnews.com) These days the United States media’s sports pages sometimes resemble a police blotter. One of baseball’s most famous pitchers has been indicted for perjury and lying to Congress. A champion cyclist is under investigation for using steroids. A college basketball star has been suspended for assaulting his girlfriend. In times […]

(Communicated by the Prime Minister’s Media Adviser) Following are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks at the start of the special Cabinet meeting today (Sunday), 5.12.10, in Tirat Hacarmel: “First, I would like to say that our hearts go out to the families who are laying to rest their loved ones. The entire nation identifies with […]

By Moshe Dann Why would President Obama place American prestige, money, and influence on the line for a three-month restriction on Jewish building in areas conquered by Israel in 1967? Another round of negotiations is doomed to fail, since Palestinian leaders have already refused to resume talks unless the freeze applies to eastern Jerusalem. Why […]

ZOA to Obama: Condemn Abbas’ anti-Semitic actions In the space of a mere two weeks, Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) has broadcast on PA TV indoctrinated children claiming Jews poisoned Yasser Arafat, named the ruling Fatah’s party convention after Munich Olympics Jew-killer Al-Hindi and broadcast pro-terror songs and pro-terror bands in the officially controlled PA […]

by David Lev and Chana Ya’ar (Israelnationalnews.com) Fire Chief Shimon Roma announced Sunday morning that the worst may be over and “cautious optimism” is at hand but the fire is still raging in a number of locations and total control will take time. Roma told listeners on IDF Army Radio that although the combined strength […]

by Elad Benari, Gil Ronen and Hillel Fendel Dozens of security personnel, many from the Israel Prisons Service, perished in the fire that has been raging on the Carmel Mountain since Thursday morning. Twenty two people were confirmed dead by 7:00 PM Thursday and 14 more bodies were reported found shortly after 10:00 PM. The […]

Nearly two decades into the 20th century, Jews were suffering the horrors of pogroms, mass expulsions, starvation and disease in Eastern Europe while Jewish soldiers in various armies were enduring the carnage of the battlefield. Amid the horrors, however, a glimmer of hope appeared.   During the First World War, two powers fought over control […]

Leo Rennert The Washington Post has spared no printer’s ink in reporting criticism by the Obama administration of Israeli construction in East Jerusalem and West Bank settlements as obstacles to the peace process. There have been dozens such articles over the last two years. But when the Palestinian Authority issued a purported historical “study” which […]

by David Lev (Israelnationalnews.com) Jews young and old know the story of Chanukah – the persecution of the Jews at the hands of the Seleucid Syrian-Greek Hellenists, the dramatic uprising of a small Jewish group that took on the mightiest armies of the day, and the highlight of the holiday – the miracle of the […]