Both Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer have approved Ya’alon’s appointment. The appointment came just after Ben-Eliezer rejected a proposal to extend IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz’s position, and at the same time as Arab terrorism continues to intensify. The appointment of the new chief of staff must still […]

In a spectacular scoop, the most serious and authoritative newspaper of France, Le Monde, announced on its front page last Tuesday that “An Israeli Spy Network Was Dismantled in the United States.” The lengthy article asserts that “without doubt” this is the biggest spy story of its type in over 15 years. But American journalists […]

Responding to terrorist attacks and attending funerals are the two most dreadful public duties elected officials are called upon to perform. For the mayors of many Israeli cities they have also become a routine part of our work. For those of us in Jerusalem, this week began as tragically as the last. First, on Saturday, […]

Community to be targeted by Jews for Jesus A magazine called “Israel My Glory” with a photograph of Israeli troops liberating Jerusalem in 1967. A mezzuzah with the requisite Hebrew prayer in an enclosed pamphlet. These are some of the strategies that messianic Jewish groups are using to woo Jewish converts. “They’re taking everything that […]

Three Israeli soldiers were killed this morning near the Netzarim junction in Gaza. Terrorists hiding behind a building near the road detonated a powerful roadside bomb by remote control while the tank passed by. The names of two victims have been released: Sgt. Rotem Shani, 19, of Hod HaSharon, and Sgt. Matan Biderman, 21, of […]

The new program, which recently came out of the Beit Midrash (study hall) of the Hassidim of Oslo, does not take into account that we already saw this movie, even before 1967. Separation already existed back then. However, the shootings and artillery attacks from the “West Bank” on Israel’s Mediterranean coastline showed how ineffective it […]

Dr. Aryeh Stav, Director of the Ariel Center for Policy Research, told Arutz-7 today that it matters little whether the terrorists were from Hizbullah, Fatah, or Tanzim: “We are at war, at this stage of which the Arab world is trying to defeat us using Palestinian terrorism. In yesterday’s case, add to this the great […]

From someone living far away it must be hard to imagine what life is like now, here in the holy land. People are apprehensive before the hourly news since most probably it will tell of another terror attack. Everyone knows that a terror attack means innocent people killed or wounded, maybe even crippled for life. […]

Six Israelis were murdered this afternoon in a terrorist shooting attack in an area of the country that until now had been considered relatively safe: northwest Israel, near the city of Shlomi. Seven people were wounded, including two in moderate condition. Around 12:40 PM, a cell of two or three terrorists suddenly opened fire from […]

Ari Fleischer was teased at the Gridiron dinner the other night for being “the only White House press secretary with his own Middle East policy.” That was because the president’s spokesman had blurted out an incontrovertible truth last week, as pressure mounted for renewed U.S. intercession between Palestinian attackers and Israeli defenders. What was the […]