by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) A series of documents in the British National Archives released to the public on Monday reveals the fierce debate over the tattered remnants of European Jewry who desperately tried to reach Israel during the British Mandate. The document, more than 400 pages long, showed how British diplomats around the world warned […]

6 Iyar 5768, 11 May 08 08:28 by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) With army approval and protection, thousands made their way to the Disengagement-destroyed Shomron town of Homesh on Independence Day - and then another 150 continued further north, in the middle of the night, to establish a presence at another Disengagement-town, Sa-Nur. The midnight pioneers say their goal […]

by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) At least one Arab terrorist entered a sixth-floor hotel room and briefly took three Jewish youths hostage in central Warsaw on Monday. The Arab, a 23-year-old man who identified himself only as “Muhammad,” was reportedly drunk and unarmed, according to police spokesman Mariusz Sokolowski. He threatened to blow up his young hostages before […]

Florida’s Governor Charlie Crist expressed concern over the apparent arson that severely damaged a Miami Beach synagogue on the third day of Passover, and said that applicable hate crime laws should be enforced if a bias crime is proven.

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) Knesset Members Moshe Sharoni, Sarah Marom-Shalev and Elchanan Glazer of the Pensioners’ Party announced that they would be leaving the party and the coalition led by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Glazer said Saturday that “in view of Prime Minister Olmert’s investigations, the government’s days are numbered, and an alternative approach to […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Civil Administration and police officials swooped down on the small Jewish neighborhood of Havot Yair, located in Samaria 14 miles east of Herzliyah, and destroyed a small unauthorized swimming pool. The pool was about seven feet wide and 28 feet long. Though word of the impending law-enforcement operation was received early, dozens of […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Shlomo Taub of Israel, founder of a Polish-based organization, spoke with IsraelNationalRadio’s Eve Harow about his efforts to help Holocaust-era Jews reclaim their long-lost property from the hands of absentee-owner administration authorities, mostly in Poland. Taub’s Legacy organization helps Holocaust victims and their descendants reclaim property they left behind in Poland and […]

 by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (IsraelNN.com) Following a day of enemy rocket barrages from Gaza, hundreds of residents of the southern city of Sderot took to the streets in an angry spontaneous demonstration Monday night. They protested against the government’s failure to stop the Palestinian Authority attacks on them. Attacks continued Tuesday morning, with PA rockets and mortars […]

Syria used to control the Golan Heights. From there, it shelled Israeli kibbutzim, killing more than 140 people and making life extraordinarily difficult for the intrepid residents (farmers couldn’t hear the shells from their tractors, so they had flagmen watch for the incoming rounds and wave at them to get to the shelters). Children slept […]

JINSA Syria and North Korea are/were pursuing something that appeared to be nuclear-related. Israel destroyed it, the United States approved and today the CIA is giving some of the details to Congress. One might think the United States and Israel would be pleased that their respective tough lines are vindicated, but both wish knowledge of North […]