One person was seriously wounded this afternoon when a terrorist-fired mortar shell landed near the entrance to N’vei Dekalim in Gush Katif this afternoon. At least one other person was treated for shock. Other military news: IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Yaalon denied yesterday the headlines of last week, according to which he had […]

1. REDUCING TERRORIST PLATFORM. Israel’s re-control of Gaza (given up in 1993) would REDUCE hate education (engine of homicide bombing), recruitment and training of terrorism, terrorist maneuverability, manufacturing and smuggling of terrorist equipment. General Earle G. Wheeler, former Chairman of the Joint C-O-S: “The occupation of Gaza by Israel would reduce the hostile border by […]

A week after the Benuck family made aliyah from New Jersey, lunchtime at their house is cheese sandwiches, fruit and yogurt on a wobbly card table in an empty living room. The rooms only decoration is a poster explaining the administrative steps for immigrating to the Jewish state. But there is good news, Mitchell Benuck […]

Tensions are high in the ruling Likud Party, only a day before a critical Central Committee session that is likely to decide the future of the government. The central question at hand is whether or not to include Labor in the government. Convention Chairman Yisrael Katz, a Likud Cabinet minister with right-wing leanings, promised last […]

A 40-year-old Arab man from Shuafat – an Arab-populated neighborhood in northern Jerusalem – attempted to murder a Border Guard policeman in Jerusalem shortly before 10:00 this morning. The terrorist stabbed his victim on the eastern side of the capital’s Highway #1, less than 300 yards north of the Old City. The policeman, though wounded […]

The ranking of Israeli windsurfer Gal Friedman improved and he is now ranked in third place after one of two men’s Mistral Olympic races was cancelled late on Sunday. Friedman finished the cancelled race in fifth place, but organizers cancelled it after it was determined competitors raced in the wrong course. Friedman reached the third […]

Thanks both to its much-maligned security barrier and its assassination of several Palestinian terrorist leaders, Israel has seen a dramatic decrease in suicide bombings over the past several months. This fact—as well as the rapidly diminishing role of terror master Yasser Arafat in everyday Palestinian affairs—makes recent talk that the Intifada has finally ended after […]

Friday, 15:30 – One Israeli is dead after having been shot outside the Shomron town of Itamar by an Arab terrorist. The attacker was a member of the Palestinian Authority’s Preventative Security Force. The lone terrorist fired at a rear sentry post of Itamar shortly before 11:00am today. The communitys first response team was activated […]

At its 216th General Assembly, held June 26-July 3, 2004, the Presbyterian Church USA called for the divestment of holdings by multinational corporations doing business with Israel; compared Israel to the apartheid regime in South Africa for building a security fence to defend itself against suicide bombers; endorsed the right of Arab “refugees” to settle […]

Since Thursday, August 5 and up until early August 10, not a single Qassam missile landed from the Gaza Strip on the southern Israel towns of Sderot or neighboring West Negev kibbutzim. Their daily nightmare since last year was more or less in abeyance for six days. Suddenly too the stream of anti-Israel invective and […]