When you imagine an algae or fish farm, a desert is probably not the first image that pops to mind. But the desert in Israel has become a fertile ground for innovative – and profitable – aquaculture industries that are also benefiting health-conscious consumers in North America, Europe and Asia. One such enterprise is located […]

Last year, as you may recall, following Independence Day (Yom Ha’atzma’ut), I wrote an article called _”The Traffic Jam that Saved Eretz Yisrael”_ (http://www.hebron.com/articles/articles3.htm) . Tens and hundreds of thousands of people from around Israel arriving at Gush Katif to show support for a strong, continued Israeli presence in this area never made it, due […]

Statements made by and the conduct of Israel\u2019s leaders since 1993 create the false impression that Israeli-American ties constitute a one-way relationship. The presumption is that America gives and Israel receives, leading to Israel\u2019s inferior position and the alleged compulsion to follow the State Department dictates. However, Former Secretary of State and NATO forces commander […]

‘My Name is Rachel Thaler’ is not the title of a play that is likely to be produced anytime soon in London. Thaler, aged 16, was blown up at a pizzeria in an Israeli shopping mall. She died after an 11-day struggle for life following the February 16, 2002 attack, when a suicide bomber approached […]

For the second time in a month, policemen arrived yesterday at the home of a prominent disengagement opponent, demanding he coordinate his activities with them. Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpe has been in the forefront of Chabad-Lubavitch pro-Land of Israel activities for over 25 years, and is one of the heads of Chabad’s International Task Force […]

Jewish settlements are the way to achieve peace and indicator of its truth. Twenty years ago, Arabs in general, and particularly Palestinians, were quite sure of their victory over Israel. For their success, they didn’t need military superiority or even sophisticated “salami” politics, which Yaser Arafat conducted for more than ten years. They considered the […]

Britain’s Association of University Teachers, representing 49,000 of that country’s academics, has just voted to boycott their Israeli colleagues at two universities, Haifa and Bar-Ilan, and to consider boycotting those at a third, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. One of the boycotted universities, Haifa, was accused of having suppressed a thesis about a massacre of […]

Guards at the Western Wall prohibited visitors at a Remembrance Day ceremony from wearing orange shirts. Orange is the official color of the anti-Disengagement struggle. Sarah Baumol from Gush Etzion said her eighth-grade son and the rest of his class went to the Western Wall in Jerusalem to pray at the conclusion of a school […]

Gadid — Plots of flowers grow outside most of the homes we pass as we drive through this small agricultural cooperative in southern Gaza. I point out a particularly lavish one, and the driver, a gruff 55-year-old, stops the car. “What are those white ones?” I ask, motioning through the window. “And those yellow ones […]

JERUSALEM – Israelis throughout the land Wednesday evening launched into celebration marking the 57th anniversary of the Jewish state’s rebirth in 1948. Thursday saw hundreds of thousands pack the nation’s parks and other public areas for picnics and other activities. As always, the Independence Day festivities were immediately preceded by nationwide remembrance of and mourning […]