Construction of new homes and apartments was down 8% throughout Israel last year – but in Judea, Samaria and Gaza (Yesha), it rose by 35%. The numbers released today by the Central Bureau of Statistics show that the number of homes started last year was less than 29,700 – the lowest number since 1989. The […]

A mortar shell damaged another home in Jewish Gaza last night; the Binyamin Region security officer escaped unscathed from a shooting attack near his home; and more. A night of attempted terror attacks passed over Judea, Samaria and Gaza last night. In one of the attempts, Avigdor Shatz, security coordinator of the Binyamin Region, was […]

I’ve been on R and R – home for a week. It’s been wonderful being back in Gaza. My heavens, the place is growing. And below ground, the tunnels are huge. You could rent them out. I was buying some dried figs – try getting decent ones in the States – the other day, and […]

http://www.jewishworldreview.com | A generation ago, Jewish students stormed the citadels of American Jewish power, intent on changing the way our institutions did business. The focus of the Jewish students of the 1970s was on getting a tired and disengaged organizational world to speak up about the plight of Soviet Jewry, and to infuse more Jewish […]

ROME, Feb. 29 (JTA) — Just a few weeks before Passover, a real and potentially devastating plague of locusts may be hitting the Red Sea coast and other parts of the Middle East and Africa. In a warning issued last week, the Rome-based U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said a locust outbreak is “in progress […]

IDF Chief of Staff Yaalon, Shabak Head Dichter, and Intelligence Chief Farkash are just some of the top defense sources featured in a full-page ad warning of the dangers of Ariel Sharon’s planned unilateral withdrawal. The ad, published by the < a target="_blank" href="http://www.myesha.org.il/default.asp?lang=E" class="wntu"> Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, includes […]

A long and extensively-illustrated article by correspondent John Ward Anderson deploring Israeli policy in Jerusalem dominated the National and World News “A” section of the February 10 edition of the Washington Post (“Israel Hems In a Sacred City; Encircling of Jerusalem Complicates Prospects for Peace”). The feature, including eight color photographs and three maps, spilled […]

Moments after the latest bus bombing in Jerusalem, the group claiming responsibility, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, identified its action as an expression of “freedom fighting.” Plainly, however, there is no cause on the face of this bleeding planet that can ever warrant the deliberate mutilation and murder of defenseless civilians riding on a municipal bus. […]

In an alarming development, IDF troops uncovered a terrorist cell made up of two 13-year-olds as well as a 14-year-old who were in the midst of planning a terror attack. The three had left letters for their parents about their decision to become ‘martyrs’. The three young terrorists were on their way to carry out […]