If Israeli professor Eliahu Levitas has his way, women undergoing IVF treatment will all have the benefit of a hypnotist at their bedside. According to Levitas’s team from Soroka Hospital in Beersheva, hypnosis can double the success of IVF treatment. Levitas’s study of 185 women found that 28% of women in the group who were […]

MONTREAL – After Rwanda, the world learned once more the peril of genocide in rogue states. Yet the world, or the United Nations as its representative body, is seemingly a reluctant learner with flawed memory. Darfur is a remote part of Sudan — itself remote from cosmopolitan centres of Europe and North America. There, in […]

The Embassy of Israel in Nairobi, Kenya, closed its doors for one day yesterday in order to deliver 15 tons of food to the village of Miangeni, hard-hit by the recent drought, which has affected many parts of Kenya. The Embassy of Israel in Nairobi, Kenya, closed its doors for one day yesterday in order […]

The Arab terrorist prisoners’ hunger strike entered its second week today, and they have not yet reduced their astonishing list of demands. Public Security Minister Tzachi HaNegbi, who said at the beginning of the strike that as far as he’s concerned, “they can starve until they die,” said that he had not changed his stance. […]

Jews and the Olympic Games By Paul Yogi Mayer Valentine Mitchell 255pp., $27.95 It’s like the punch line of a joke: Someone displays the cover of a book entitled Greatest Jewish Sport Heroes, only to reveal that the volume is just three pages long. It is an outdated misconception; any true sports fan can quickly […]

The largest international body outside the United Nations, the 115-member Non-Aligned Movement, passed a series of anti-Israel resolutions last night. Among them is a call for action “to decline entry to Israeli settlers” – i.e., the 450,000 Jewish residents of areas liberated in the Six Day War such as eastern and northern Jerusalem, Gush Etzion, […]

The Likud Party Central Committee voted last night against Prime Minister Sharon’s attempts to include the Labor Party in his government coalition. The vote places a big question mark on the future of the government and the disengagement plan. The convention delegates were asked to vote on two proposals. One, formulated by Prime Minister Sharon, […]

One thinks of international monitors in connection with elections in the Third World where ballot boxes are stolen, voters are shot at to discourage participation, and military coups follow disputed contests. But now thanks to a gang of Democratic congressmen and their stooges in Colin Powells State Department — for the first time in our […]

Two Kassam rockets were fired at the Negev city of Sderot this afternoon, wounding two people lightly – including a child. Some 30 people were treated for shock. One of the rockets landed in a shopping center. Another Kassam rocket was fired at the western Negev this morning, landing in an open field. In other […]

The drama-ridden Likud convention will begin at 4:00 this afternoon, and Prime Minister Sharon may have found a “Zionist” solution to extricate him from the problems he faces. The anti-disengagement forces in the Likud, led by Minister Uzi Landau, are preparing to vote against including Labor in the coalition. This will force Sharon to either […]