The New York Times reported yesterday that what began on Tuesday “as a hunt for an ancient Jewish text at secret police headquarters [in Baghdad,] wound up unearthing a trove of Iraqi intelligence documents and maps relating to Israel as well as offers of sales of uranium and other nuclear material to Iraq.” Among the […]

In honor of Israel’s 55th birthday, we asked Aish.com readers to share their favorite reason to visit Israel. From the hundreds of responses, it was not easy paring it down to the top 55. Which one strikes you? (1) Feeling the serenity of Shabbat in Jerusalem. (Alain Sportiche) (2) As a Holocaust survivor, I recognize […]

A Survey of Week #1: April 29, 2003 – May 5, 2003 BACKGROUND: On June 24, 2002, President Bush set forth the conditions that the Palestinian Arabs must fulfill in order to merit U.S. support for the creation of a Palestinian Arab state. Among the major obligations are that the Palestinian Arabs must “dismantle the […]

A popular new music video with outright incitement to murder Jews is being aired on official Palestinian Authority (PA) television. The video features lyrics and footage encouraging attacks specifically upon Jews living in Judea, Samaria and Gaza (Yesha). Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) translated the movie clip from Arabic. As images of a Jewish couple and […]

LONDON, May 7 (JTA) — The phenomenon of suicide bombing “is going to be around for a long time,” a British professor predicts in a new paper. But despite the fact that two Britons were responsible for a suicide bombing last week that killed three Israelis in Tel Aviv, Britain is not likely to produce […]

Professor Adi Shamir, a computer scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, has been named a 2002 winner of the A.M. Turing Award, regarded in academic circles as the “Nobel Prize” of computer science. Shamir shares the award with Ronald L. Rivest of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Leonard M. Adleman of […]

NEW YORK, May 7 (JTA) — Funders of the University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies have links to Al-Qaida, according to a campus Jewish newspaper. Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz al Saud, who funds the center’s Sultan Endowment for Arab studies, is a primary defendant in the $100 trillion lawsuit filed in […]

May 14, 1948 THE DECLARATION OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL ERETZ-ISRAEL [(Hebrew) – the Land of Israel, Palestine] was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the […]

Israel celebrates its 55th Independence Day (Yom Ha’Atzma’ut) tonight and tomorrow, joined by many communities around the world. A partial list of Yom Ha’Atzma’ut celebrations in Israel and worldwide, as well as articles on the significance of the day, can be seen here. The Israeli Air Force will open certain facilities to the general public […]

Gideon Lichterman, 27, of Achiyah, east of Shilo, was murdered by Palestinian terrorists last night on his way to give a ride home to a fellow resident. A member of the town’s secretariat, he heard that a friend – Tamir Dar, 25, a reserve soldier – needed a ride back to the community, and he […]