It took the Palestinians a few hours to grasp to the full the dimensions of Sharon’s bloodless coup in Jerusalem in retaliation for the one of their most horrendous terrorist outrages since the onset of the Intifada las October. Before even 15 victims of the Sbarro’s pizza parlor suicide bombing were buried Friday, among them […]

Twelve persons were wounded, one very critically, in a suicide bombing attack this morning in downtown Jerusalem near Bikur Cholim Hospital. Three people are listed in moderate condition. Shortly before 8 AM, two Border Guard policemen were alerted to a suspicious bearded male wearing religious garb. As the two began to cautiously approach the suspect […]

Shalom. A few years ago, an older man, together with a younger woman, walked into my office here in Hebron. Seeing them, I asked how I could be of assistance. The gentleman said to me, “My name is Salom Goldshmidt. My father Moshe Goldshmidt was murdered here in Hebron in 1929. I’m here with my […]

This morning was one of good fortune in the capital city of Jerusalem, when two car bombs and two explosives went off at various locations, causing hardly any injuries. Early this morning, one explosive went off under a parked truck in Ma’alot Daphna near Ramat Eshkol, while another one blew up close to midnight in […]

A History Channel program to be broadcast on the evening of August 9 will reportedly charge that the US and Israel have covered up the facts behind the attack by Israeli jets and torpedo boats on a US intelligence-gathering ship during the 1967 Six Day War. The USS Liberty was steaming more than 10 miles […]

The following are the results of a Dahaf telephone poll of representative sample of 501 Israeli adults (including Israeli Arabs) carried out on 28 August for Yediot Ahronot. Estimation error +/- 4.5 percentage points: Was it a correct move for the IDF to enter Beit Jallah last night? Yes 75% No 20% No reply 5% […]

The denunciation of Israel by the U.S. State Department for the killing of Mustafa Zubari, terrorist and murderer of countless Israelis, clearly puts President Bush and the State Department on two different tracks. While President Bush stated on August 24 that Arafat was not doing enough to stop the terrorist attacks on Israel, Richard Boucher, […]

Hevron was the site of intense hostilities over the weekend, and Jewish residents there spent much of the Sabbath ducking bullets. Terrorists from the Shalhevet (Abu Sneineh) and Harat a-Sheikh hills overlooking the Jewish neighborhoods attacked with automatic weapons and firebombs almost throughout the entire Sabbath, lightly wounding 8-year-old Haggai Ze’ev in his face. An […]

The apologists for Yasser Arafat’s criminal war on Israel have seized on another tactic in the parallel propaganda battle. They are attacking Israeli use of U.S.-made planes and weapons to fight terrorists. The logic of this latest Palestinian ploy doesn’t stand up under the cold harsh light of reality. Israel acquired the weapons for self-defense. […]

Bernard B. Kerik, New York City Police Commissioner, visiting in Israel this week, told Public Security Minister Uzi Landau and Police Chief Shlomo Aharonishki yesterday that he chose to come to Israel specifically now, and not six weeks from now as he had originally planned, “to demonstrate my deep solidarity with the State of Israel […]