by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (IsraelNN.com) The Almagor Terror Victims Organization said Monday that an attack on an IDF soldier earlier in the day was the result of the removal of military checkpoints near Jericho. A month ago, Almagor called on the government to return the checkpoints to the roads, warning that the stretch between Ramallah and Jericho […]

By Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent Last update - 00:40 15/09/2008 www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1020978.html A member of the Winograd panel on Sunday blasted the government and defense establishment for not implementing all the recommendations made in the damning report on their conduct during the Second Lebanon War. “About half the recommendations have not been put into action,” said Prof. Yehezkel Dror. […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) The Muslim Fatah-controlled authority in Judea and Samaria is encouraging a “sharp demographic shift” in Bethlehem, where the Christian population went from a 60 percent majority in 1990 to a 40 percent minority in 2000, to about 15 percent of the city’s total population today. It is estimated that, for the past […]

By Karin Kloosterman September 08, 2008 America was shocked when Dirty Dancing star Patrick Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier this year. His “coming out” brought attention to the silent killer, which afflicts about 30,000 Americans each year. Most - unfortunately - don’t live past a year of diagnosis. But hope might be […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) An Arab terrorist stabbed a nine-year-old Jewish boy at the Shalhevet neighborhood in Yitzhar in Samaria on the Sabbath, torched an empty house and tried to set fire to a second building. The terrorist threw the boy four meters down off of an outdoor porch, into an area filled with construction […]

IDF Spokesperson’s Office September 10th, 2008 Two Israel Air Force pilots were killed after a “Cobra” type combat helicopter crashed this evening (September 10th, 2008) during a training flight near the Israeli kibbutz of Ginegar in the Yizrael Valley (northern Israel). The families of the pilots were notified. During the training session, the helicopter took part in a flight formation. Approximately ten […]

by IsraelNN TV (IsraelNN.com) While Vice-Premier Chaim Ramon (Kadima) has put forward a proposal to pay Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria (Yesha) to leave voluntarily, a private initiative to counter Ramon’s plan is being set up. Attorney Yossi Fuchs is heading an initiative to keep Yesha in Jewish hands. Fuchs, who is running for a […]

By Israel Today Israel Today | Tuesday, September 09, 2008 Muslim students at the University of Southern California are enraged by the school’s recent decision to remove from a student group’s website an Islamic text that encourages the murder of Jews. Until recently, the website of the now-defunct Muslim Student Association, which is hosted on the university’s […]

by Zeev Ben-Yechiel (IsraelNN.com) A former top Israel Defense Forces officer blasted the IDF’s top brass Thursday, laying the blame on them for botching the “embarrassing” war in Lebanon in 2006, and said that due to a low level of training the army is unprepared to for the next one. Major-General (res.) Moshe Ivri-Sukenik was most […]

August 1, 2008 PM Sharon & IDF Chief Yaalon’s 2002 statements on Saddam’s WMDs confirmed An American official has just confirmed what has been long suspected – that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) were dispersed to Syria and Lebanon prior to the deposition of Saddam Hussein’s regime by US-led forces in 2003. This would tend to confirm […]