The number of Jews living in Judea, Samaria and Gaza increased significantly in the year 2004 – and particularly in Gaza, whose residents face the threat of demolition and expulsion. Population Registry statistics show that the population of Yesha increased by almost 6% in 2004, to a total of more than 250,000. This total does […]

Ella Abukasis, 17, of Sderot, who was mortally wounded by a Kassam rocket as she was walking home on Saturday night, died Friday morning. Her funeral was held in Sderot shortly after noon. Doctors and rabbis spent many hours at Ella’s bedside over the past few days, and performed many tests. Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Halperin, […]

Ever since I was a child, I’ve heard a range of accounts of what happened to the Palestinians and Palestine. Everyone knows the Jewish version and the Arab version. But there is a third side, that of those who lived there and still do–the Israeli Arabs. Some Jews want us out of Israel, and some […]

Petitions signed by at least 10,000 IDF soldiers and officers opposed to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s withdrawal plan are to be presented to Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz next month. Noam Livnat, the brother of Education Minister Limor Livnat and spokesman for the Homat Magen [Defensive Shield] group, has released the text of the petitions it […]

In 1965, Nicolae Ceausescu began his long and infamous reign as president of Romania. One of the first things he learned upon assuming office was how to trade Jews to Israel. But the Romanian dictator soon found the system to be inefficient. He ordered the Romanian secret service to shift gears from the “ancient age […]

The mentality of radical Islam includes several main components, of which one is Muslim supremacism a belief that believers alone should rule and otherwise enjoy an exalted status over non-Muslims. This outlook dominates the Islamist worldview as much in the elegant streets of Paris as in the rude caves of Afghanistan. Two recent American criminal […]

At least seven people have been wounded in a Hamas attack on an IDF position at the Gush Katif Junction in Gaza. One person is in critical condition, two are seriously wounded and four are suffering from light to moderate injuries following the attack. Two helicopters evacuated the wounded to Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva. […]

NEW YORK, Jan. 17 (JTA) When they were young, they fought the Nazis, and then bore witness to the extreme depravity of which human beings are capable. Now in or nearing their 80s and 90s, the Allied soldiers who liberated the concentration camps of Europe are recounting their memories of the horrors. Approaching the Jan. […]

During Hanukkah, the kids were home on vacation. Here in Hebron, we try to provide daily activities for the children, including parties, trips and the like. On Tuesday, one of my friends approached me and asked if I’d be busy the next day. As all spokespeople are trained to do, I answered his question with […]

“If Gush Katif didn’t exist, we would have to invent it,” said Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin when touring the Gush Katif region. “You are the first line of defense of this country,” stated Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in a speech in Gush Katif, 2002. Today, the Gush Katif region, as well as the western Negev, […]