(JPFS) – JERUSALEM – In a marked boost in military cooperation, the Israeli Air Force held a joint exercise recently with the U.S. Air Force over the Negev involving midair refueling, dogfighting, and air-to-ground attacks. While the American and Israeli air forces have a long but quiet tradition of exercising in Israel, it was the […]

Part 1: The Debate over Religious Legitimacy The Arab media has recently plunged into a debate concerning the religious, political and moral legitimacy of the Palestinian suicide bombings against Israel. The leading Sunni-Islamic authorities, as well as political officials and columnists took part in the debate. The question of the religious legitimacy of suicide attacks […]

Harper’s, the literary magazine founded in 1850 and celebrated in its early years for featuring the works of Herman Melville, Henry James and Mark Twain, has for most of its history been an insomniac’s delight – a snooze-inducing bore found mainly in the waiting rooms of doctors who hope to impress patients with a little […]

Beit El resident MK Rabbi Benny Elon (National Union) was asked by Arutz-7’s Haggai Segal how he feels traveling almost every day along the route on which Assaf Hershkovitz was murdered today. Elon’s response: “For myself it’s one thing, but what’s harder is to send my 12-year-old daughter every day to school in Ofrah. But […]

An Op-Ed piece being offered around town by Americans for Peace Now is fresh evidence that their positions are unworthy of serious consideration. Entitled “Crossed Lines” and authored by APN’s President and CEO, it takes the notion of equivalency to truly absurd heights. Some revealing excerpts are: Over the past several months, Israel and her […]

Israel’s leaders express understandable concern when Secretary of State Colin Powell referred to recent Israeli counter-terror measures as “excessive and disproportionate.” After all, America’s armed forces have repeatedly used massive force against its enemies (sometimes under the direct command of Powell himself, a former head of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff) even when those […]

Part I E. Initial Restoration Attempts – 1931 Following the riots and deportations, the reinnants of the Jewish community strove unceasingly to restore Jews to the city of their forefathers. One leading figure in these efforts, despite his own horrendous personal tragedy, was the aged Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Slonim, Chief Rabbi of Hebron, whose family […]

The Israeli national anhem, Hatikvah, has been attributed to Naftali Herz Imber, but the Hatikvah that is sung today has little resemblance to the original poem written in 1878 and published in 1886. The poem was first published under the title of Tikvatenu (Our Hope) in Imber’s Barkai. The inspiration of the poem is said […]

A. The Jewish People’s Deepest Roots Jewish history begins in Hebron. The Patriarch Abraham, the first Hebrew, chose Hebron as the first place of settlement in the Land of Israel. It was here that he purchased the first legacy, the Cave of Machpelah, where the Patriarehs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the Matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca […]

The Egyptian government daily, Al-Ahram, echoes Qadhafi’s accusations against the US and Israel: “Our brother, the Colonel Mu’ammar Al-Qadhafi, the leader of the Libyan revolution, revealed that two years ago Libyan children in the city of Benghazi suffered from the most abominable crime in the history of mankind, when foreign nurses injected them with the […]