For the Ben-Gurion University students and workers who arrive at the gleaming new north Beersheva-University train station and cross the impressive bridge leading them directly onto the campus, the facilities simply represent convenient transportation. But the newly inaugurated station that links the Negev city of Beersheva – as well as the classrooms and laboratories of […]

The man newly enthroned as Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem claimed in an interview he is “reviewing” the details of the recent sale to Jewish groups of church land comprising much of Jaffa Gate – the key entrance to Jerusalem`s Old City – and said he is striving to maintain the “status quo” between Israelis […]

A massive car-bomb attack was thwarted in the Tunnels Highway, and four Kassam rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza. No one was hurt. The IDF thwarted what could have been a catastrophic car bomb attack this afternoon. Israeli forces discovered a car packed with explosives parked near Beit Jala, on the Jerusalem-Gush Etzion Tunnels […]

Israelis who support left-wing parties are more hostile toward Jewish settlers than they are toward the Palestinians, a new survey reported by Israel’s leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth on Monday revealed. The survey, which was conducted by Prof. Dalia Mor of The College of Management in Rishon Letzion, aimed at examining the attitudes of 500 Jewish […]

New York – The ZOA has praised the efforts by the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, to strongly support Israel and see that the U.N. adopts a more principled approach to Israel. This week, Ambassador Bolton criticized the U.N. Security Council for failing to condemn Monday’s terrorist attack in Netanya, which killed […]

The majority of American Jewish leaders should be held accountable for gross misconduct, because their callous indifference to human suffering and injustice now amounts to criminal negligence. Speaking in the name of the Jewish community, this leadership has violated Jewish religious teachings to bear witness to the truth and to show compassion for the persecuted. […]

There is a right way and a wrong way, strangely, to call for the elimination of Israel. The secretary-general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, provided an example of both ways in recent weeks. When the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, stated on October 26 that “the regime occupying Jerusalem must be eliminated from the […]

November 21 marked the start of my 21st year of incarceration in America for my service to the security of the State of Israel. I am often asked if I am angry that Israel has not done more to secure my release. The question is wrong. It should be: Am I angry that Israel has […]

Deep-seated hatred, rather than security concerns, is the true underlying reason behind the left-leaning Sharon government’s uprooting of Gaza’s Jews and systematic discrimination against them and their supporters, a new poll suggests. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel on Monday released a report accusing the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of violating the […]

An argument we have been repeatedly is that a civilized society must obey the laws of the land. They tell us that since the Knesset has legislated the expulsion of Jews from the Gaza Strip, these laws had to be obeyed by both the Jewish villagers in Gaza and by the Israeli police and military […]