President George W. Bush puts his money where his mouth is. He has me convinced. Erev Shabbos Chanukah I received an envelope from a Texas accountant. Having no business in Texas, I was immediately curious. Inside was a generous contribution to the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, the organization I have run for the last […]

“I have given an order to plan for the evacuation of 17 settlements in the Gaza Strip.” So said Prime Minister Ariel Sharon today in an interview with Haaretz columnist Yoel Marcus. “It is my intention to carry out an evacuation – sorry, a relocation – of settlements that cause us problems and of places […]

According to Zeev Boim, Israeli Deputy Minister of Defense, Israel plans to target Sheik Ahmed Yassin, founder of the deadly Hamas terror group. Boim authoritatively cites numerous acts of barbarism authorized by Yassin, with particular reference to Yassin`s recent religious ruling allowing women to become suicide bombers. Although assassination is already an integral part of […]

LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM Wednesday, January 28, 2004 Dear Friends, For many months the Women in Green traveled the length and breadth of Israel in our “Truth Mobile” to collect signatures for a Petition addressed to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, protesting his plan to create a Palestinian state in the Biblical […]

Today at 8:50 A.M. a Homicide Bomber from the Dahaishah Refugee Camp in Bethlehem blew himself up in Jerusalem on the #19 bus killing instantly 10, wounding 50, 12 critically. The passengers were mostly Israeli Jews and Arabs, patients and support staff, doctors and nurses who were going to Hadassah Hospital on Mt. Scopus in […]

Last week, the Jewish Nation suffered a fierce and devastating blow, when a synagogue was destroyed. One may question with great concern. Where? France? Poland? Prague? Of course had it been in one of these known anti-Semitic countries our lives would have been made much easier. We would all rise up in unison chanting “Never […]

The Arutz-7 community lost an old and dear friend, Yechezkel Goldberg, in yesterday’s terrorist attack in Jerusalem. Goldberg, a 42-year-old social worker from Beitar Illit, was the former host of Arutz-7’s English-language Radio program “Youth Beat,” dealing with youth in crisis. He hosted the show until 2001. In addition, Chezi was also a periodic contributor […]