The campaign in Iraq has claimed a soldier believed to be the second American Jewish military casualty. David Bernstein, 24, of Phoenixville, Pa., a first lieutenant with the U.S. Army’s 173rd Airborne Infantry Brigade based in Camp Ederle, Italy, was killed in Taza, Iraq, when enemy forces ambushed his patrol with rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms […]

Some 164,400 people have left Jerusalem over the last decade, while only 97,300 new residents have moved into the capital, according to the data published in the latest edition of the Statistical Yearbook of Jerusalem. Dr. Maya Choshen, the editor of the yearbook, told Haaretz that a relatively high proportion of those who have left […]

At the crack of dawn on a typically gray Cleveland morning, Michael Jones woke up with a bad headache and feeling of confusion. After consulting his doctor, Jones – not his real name – drove himself to the nearest clinic. The technician on duty did an MRI of Jones’ brain which he sent to the […]

A Palestinian terrorist was shot and killed during the course of his attempt to murder two Jews in Hevron today. The terrorist fired and wounded the two in the Admot Yeshai neighborhood shortly after 1 PM today, leaving one in “moderate” condition and one with light wounds. Security forces opened fire and killed the attacker, […]

Training At Nahrawan and Salman Pak “An Iraqi officer (L) [only identified by initial] tells us that one day a Land Cruiser belonging to the Personal Security Force (Al-Amn Al-Khass, responsible for the protection of Saddam Hussein) arrived and a senior officer from the Presidential Palace stepped out of it. He was one of those […]

“If they are hell-bent on sending suicide bombers at hotels, restaurants, and social clubs, there may not be much we can do about that.” These were the ominous words of a U.S. counterterrorism official interviewed by CNN after Islamic terrorists launched a coordinated suicide bombing in Casablanca that targeted a hotel, a community center, and […]

The Oct. 15 killing in Gaza had a bitterly ironic quality. The victims were three Americans, security personnel protecting an academic review committee en route to interview Palestinian applicants for the Fulbright program, an academic exchange funded and run by the U.S. government. The killers were Palestinian terrorists. The three, in other words, were murdered […]

Yesterday was one of Israel’s more successful days in its long-running war against Palestinian terrorism, featuring five Israel Air Force attacks on terrorist targets in Gaza – yet the army found itself on the defensive this morning, in light of the incidental death of five civilians in the attacks. At least eight terrorists were killed, […]

The Beit El pre-military yeshiva academy The town of Beit El also was the scene of joyful Sukkot festivities today. Residents of the Binyamin-area community, 10 miles north of Jerusalem, dedicated a campus for a pre-military yeshiva academy with great fanfare. Busloads of tourists and Beit El supporters from Israel and abroad arrived from Jerusalem […]

In light of today’s court ruling convicting ten Arutz-7 directors and staff members of broadcasting without a license, Arutz-7 stopped its radio broadcasts at 5 PM this afternoon. It issued the following message to its “precious and loyal listening public:” “To the precious and loyal listening public of Arutz-7, may G-d bless you from Zion. […]