The Knesset Absorption Committee, chaired by MK Colette Avital (Labor), held an emergency closed-door session today on the current situation of the Jews of Iraq. Some 40 Jews, mostly elderly, remain in the country, with most of them living in Baghdad. The committee heard from a senior Mossad representative, the chairman of the Babylonian Jewish […]

In a tragic case of mistaken identity this afternoon, two Israeli citizens were killed by IDF forces in the Southern Mt. Hevron region. The two were hired guards of a private contractor working in the area. The IDF released a statement saying that the forces were on high alert, following intelligence warnings of a planned […]

(Washington, D.C.): Six months to the day after President Bush offered not only Saddam Hussein but the United Nations one last chance to disarm Iraq, the verdict is in: So long as the former is in power, he will not voluntarily, fully and permanently surrender his weapons of mass destruction programs or credibly foreswear the […]

As the latest series of the Intel’s new series of mobile Centrino computer chips and products is unveiled in New York this week with great fanfare and an unprecedented $300 million advertising campaign, the team at the company’s R&D facility in Haifa will be looking on with a particular sense of pride. The Centrino officially […]

The Supreme Court rejected a request today by the Hevron Jewish Community to deal urgently with an issue that has been on hold for over three months. The Court issued a restraining order in December preventing the demolition of several buildings along the route leading to the Machpelah Cave. The army had requested permission to […]

If you’ve ever thought you detected a certain anti-Israel bias in the reportage of NBC’s longtime Israel bureau chief Martin Fletcher, there’s good reason: Despite being Jewish, married to an Israeli and the father of three Israeli sons, Fletcher considers Israel worse than South Africa in the days of apartheid and won’t even say whether […]

Arafat’s millions and Bush’s principles set the stage for a post-Iraq-war collision This past week, the Palestinian Authority’s top accountant told The New York Times that the P.A.’s finances are “a mess.” Think you have trouble sorting out your investments? According to Salam Fayyad, the gun-toting kleptocracy that has raked in billions in foreign aid […]

A 17th victim of the Haifa bus bombing of six days ago has died. Moran Shushan, 20, of Haifa, was critically wounded in the attack, and succumbed to her wounds early this morning. Moran is survived by her widowed mother and three sisters. Fifteen people were killed in the attack, and a 16th victim died […]

Our wily prime minister is a master of obfuscation, especially when it comes to Israel-Palestinian diplomacy. To judge by the old maxim: “keep the enemy guessing,” he is doing a wonderful job. The problem is that Ariel Sharon’s contradictory policies toward Yasir Arafat and the Palestinian Authority have everybody confused – not just our enemies. […]

One of the clearest signs of the growing Nazification of so much of the world’s media is the increasing trend to label Palestinians atrocities, such as the exploding of the bus full of children in Haifa last week, as “Palestinian resistance”. The PLO and its amen choruses routinely explain away such mass murders of Jewish […]