A very large and unusual room, with a mikveh [ritual bath] from the Hashmonaim period (some 2,100 years ago), was discovered accidentally in Jerusalem’s Old City a number of weeks ago, near the Hasmonean Tunnels. The room is 20 meters high, 10 by 10 meters wide, with the mikveh at the bottom, including a stairwell […]

On its surface, THE PIANIST is the true tale of a great Jewish musician caught in the unfathomable depths of Nazi occupation. More profoundly, it is a visual microcosm of the titanic human struggle between good and evil. a struggle that is sometimes utterly clear but sometimes also very “gray.” The Nazis in Poland were […]

According to a report published in today’s “New York Times”, U.S. President George Bush has decided to freeze implementation of his mid-east peace plan calling for the creation of a Palestinian state, until the end of the crisis with Iraq. Administration officials say that it makes no sense to publish the peace plan, known as […]

JERUSALEM — Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasir Arafat may be under the looming threat of war and military siege, respectively, but their personal financial wealth places them among the elite of world rulers. With $2 billion, Saddam is the fourth-richest among royals and dictators, on par with the king of Liechtenstein, […]

Critics of America’s plan to liberate Iraq are right about one thing: We don’t know exactly how this policy will look in practice. But there are a few things we do know. In particular, we know what happens when we depend on the so-called peaceful alternatives of restraining Saddam with “disarmament” and “containment.” We know […]

The Hebron Municipal Board is demanding the permanent closure of the Arab Polytechnicum institute in Hebron where yesterday’s Haifa suicide bomber was a student. The municipality is also calling for the expulsion of all persons connected to the institution, as well as the entire extended Kawasma clan to whom the terrorist bomber belonged. The Polytechnicum […]

Israel Foreign Ministry officials are irked at media portrayal of last night’s IDF counter-terrorism actions in Gaza as a “massacre,” a “retaliation for yesterday’s terrorist attack,” or both. IDF sources say that there is a wave of disinformation regarding the killing of 11 Arabs in Gaza last night. It is being said that the 11 […]

Fifteen people, possibly including the terrorist, are reported dead and close to 40 are wounded as a result of a bus bombing in Haifa. A bus on a main artery in the central Carmel area blew up at around 2:15 PM, and emergency medical teams quickly arrived to begin treating the wounded. Zaka Rescue and […]

In Shechem, IDF forces once again took action in the Kasbah area, only a week after completing a thorough anti-terrorism offensive there. Arab sources say that the army took over several buildings in the area, that explosions were heard, and that two Arabs have been killed. An explosives vest was found in one home, together […]

In assessing the Likud’s victory and the Labor-left camp’s defeat in the recent Israeli election, some Palestinian Authority figures concluded that it was the PA’s strategy that led to the election’s outcome. Therefore, they have called for a change in the PA’s strategy in order to prevent such an outcome in the future. The following […]