No, not those targeted killings. The Palestinians have embarked on a policy of eliminating “traitors and collaborators” within their population – sometimes with the benefit of a kangaroo trial, sometimes without. “T&C” are those who cooperate with Israel in some “unacceptable” manner, generally meaning to provide information to Israel on the whereabouts of terrorists or […]

The Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida carried a story this week about IDF tactics that surpassed all previous accusations of supposed Israeli deviousness – poisoned candies, hormone-laced gum, poisoned wells, magnetized belts – in its bizarreness. According to an Al-Hayat Al-Jadida front page report, the IDF has turned to using armed, female strippers in its […]

It is hard to sum up the last two weeks and formulate words that would express accurately how I, like many other in this country, feel. Two weeks ago, several hours before shabbot, two little children were playing near where mortars had fallen (shattering the windows of homes) just a week and a half earlier. […]

On the night before a young man begins his service in the Israel Defense Forces, neither he nor his parents sleep too much. The soon-to-be IDF inductee parties with his friends. The parents do not sleep out of worry, fear and apprehension. This month we accompanied our first born son, Noam, to the IDF recruitment […]

Arab killers moved into ambush position early this morning, and awaited an Israel vehicle along the Trans-Judea highway which connects Hevron and the Judean hills to the southern coastal plain. Five people from two Jewish families left their homes in Adura heading for Kiryat Gat, near Ashkelon. At about 7:25, the Arabs opened fire on […]

Picture this: You’re driving home from a long day at work. Twenty minutes from home the traffic jams starts. Eventually, reaching the beginning of the line, you are waved into a huge parking lot. After finding a spot to park, you walk to the next line. Finally it’s your turn, and you climb up onto […]

We’ll get to the latest Palestinian massacre of Israeli civilians in a moment, but first a lesson in historical context. One of the most memorable stories Ariel Sharon tells is of the visit he made to Washington in 1982 on the eve of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. Then Defense Minister, Mr. Sharon met with the […]

Ever since Israel won Judea, Samaria and Gaza in the 1967 Six-Day War, the United States has insisted on classifying these territories as “occupied”. Ignoring Israel’s Biblical, historical and legal rights to the areas and overlooking the fact that they were taken in an act of self-defense by a country threatened with extinction by its […]

An Arab terrorist, apparently a suicide bomber, walked into the Wall Street Cafe in Kiryat Motzken near Haifa just after 5:00 PM, and detonated a powerful explosive, which has injured 15 people. The terrorist blast occurred inside the cafe, similar to the suicide bombing in center city Jerusalem on Thursday which claimed 15 lives and […]

After Israeli forces liberated the remainder of Judea in the miraculous Six-Day War, Yochanan Ben Yaakov was part of a group of Jews who explored the south Hebron hills in southern Judea to search for traces of their Jewish past. They found Jewish synagogues in Eshtemoa, Yatta, and Carmel. Indeed, in Yatta, one of the […]