The Jewish residents of Gaza won their second “battle” against the intentions to abandon their security in two days. The road passing through Kfar Darom will remain closed to Arab traffic – for now. The Jewish residents of Gaza won their second “battle” in two days against the intentions to abandon their security. Yesterday, their […]

Never has there been more urgency to topple the mullah regime in Iran. Yes, the world has known for a long time that Tehran is up to its eyeballs in the sponsorship of jihadist Islamic terrorism. Yes, the world has known Iran under ayatollah rule has become one of the most repressive places on Earth. […]

From 1997 to 1998, John Dubrow got to know the World Trade Center fairly well. He made many paintings from a high vantage point on the 91st floor in a temporary studio granted him by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. His heavily worked cityscapes built solid compositions out of urban structure, color and space and […]

Many hundreds of people were on hand this morning to greet 330 new immigrants from North America who flew in on a special chartered plane. The mass aliyah was arranged by Nefesh B’Nefesh and the Jewish Agency for Israel. Interior Ministry officials greeted them on the plane from New York, and began processing their papers […]

It took about 15 hours, but the police finally determined with certainty this morning that the explosion last night in the Netanya-Kfar Saba region that killed Mazal Afari, 65, mother of eight children, was a terrorist attack. She was buried this afternoon in the Tel Mond regional cemetery. The explosion shook Moshav Kfar Ya’vetz, founded […]

WASHINGTON – New documents released this week by America’s National Security Agency support Israel’s version of a long-festering controversy between the two countries: Israel’s shelling of an American spy ship, the USS Liberty, off the coast of Gaza during the 1967 Six-Day War. Israel has always said it had no idea the ship was American, […]

Talk and writing about Israel and the Middle East feature the nouns “Palestine” and Palestinian”, and the phrases “Palestinian territory” and even “Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory”. All too often, these terms are used with regard to their historical or geographical meaning, so that the usage creates illusions rather than clarifies reality. What Does “Palestine” Mean? It […]

Early this afternoon, I opened the newspaper and saw a little boy, smiling, wearing a leather helmet on his head, waving at the camera. The article alongside the picture, in big white letters on a celebratory blue background, read, ” Ariel returns with a smile.” I stopped my other activities to read the article, and, […]

It is wrong, it is demeaning, it is pure folly for the Israeli government to discuss the so-called Road Map with its perpetrators. Its fancy name does not lend charm to the obnoxious fact that it is a diktat such as is handed by a triumphant victor to his enemy defeated in war. Israel has […]

The girl who sat in front of me was six years old. Her father took a seat with us as she showed work pages from nursery school. The Arabic writing confirmed her story. At age four her teachers taught her to hate Zionists and Ariel Sharon. A hand-drawn map in the collection of work pages […]