The Nefesh B’Nefesh organization has chartered two El Al flights this coming Wednesday, bringing to Israel a record number of 500 Jewish immigrants from the U.S. and Canada. This will be the largest number of North American immigrants to ever arrive in Israel on one day. On hand to greet them will be Prime Minister […]

David Bedein, Jerusalem Bureau Chief of the Israel Resource News Agency, has summed up some of the major political/security objections to Sharon’s Disengagement plan. A summary of nine of the premises on which the plan is founded, and elaboration on why they are false: 1. “Just as the withdrawal from southern Lebanon was successful, so […]

During World War II, Jewish kapos in Nazi concentration camps were forced by the threat of immediate death to collaborate with the Germans and perform jobs connected with the murder of other Jews. We should not be too fast to judge them, given their dire circumstances and desperate desire to stay alive. Today, however, there […]

The Sharon shopping mall in Netanya was attacked by an Arab suicide bomber around 6:30 this evening. Two women were killed and ninety persons wounded in the attack, some critically. Ambulances have evacuated the wounded to local hospitals. The bomber, who apparently was wearing an explosive belt or carrying a bag of explosives, was stopped […]

The “new” Palestinian authority — the one run by “moderate” Mahmoud Abbas, teaches children to aspire to shahada — martyrdom — which it calls “sweet.” Palestinian mothers of suicide bombers now elicit special praise in their communities. “There goes the mother of a shahid,” is what they yearn to hear and what they can realistically […]

WASHINGTON – As London recovers from the latest deadly al-Qaida attack that killed at least 50, top U.S. government officials are contemplating what they consider to be an inevitable and much bigger assault on America – one likely to kill millions, destroy the economy and fundamentally alter the course of history, reports Joseph Farah’s G2 […]

Aviel, my son, at age three gave a basket of our first crops of tomatoes to P.M. Yitchak Rabin at the founding of our town. Aviel who has lived all his life in Gush Katif’s oldest Jewish town, Netzer Hazani, writes that the moment of truth for the Jewish People has arrived. PLEASE DEAR FRIENDS […]

Terrorism usually comes like a bolt from the blue, but not so the four explosions yesterday in London, killing at least 37. Some British Islamist leaders have been warning for months that such violence was imminent. An Islamist British group called Al-Muhajiroun (Arabic: “the immigrants”) for some time publicly stated that the United Kingdom was […]

In light of recent events, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon must heed calls to hold national elections: Failure to do so makes a mockery of Israel`s parliamentary system. In a humiliating defeat for the prime minister, the Knesset recently carried three consecutive motions of no confidence against the government. While technically not amounting to the requisite […]

Government ministers have been hinting for months that the withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria will not be the last. Now a senior officer says the IDF is preparing for more pullbacks. A senior IDF officer interviewed by London Arab newspaper Al Shark al Awsat said that Israel’s “disengagement plan” represents the first installment in […]