In an attempt to clear the name of settlers living in West Bank communities blamed for the destruction of Palestinian olive trees, the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea,Samaria and Gaza on Tuesday, showed film footage of Palestinian farmers pruning their own trees near Yitzhar. The film footage clearly showed Palestinian farmers pruning their trees […]

Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who has replaced Ariel Sharon as the Kadima Party’s prime ministerial candidate, is to visit Washington in February, just a month before Israel’s national elections. Visits of this type invariably add to the invitee’s stature in the perception of Israel’s domestic public, and this will therefore help Olmert as the […]

JERUSALEM – Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu will not be able to stop the de facto division of Jerusalem, which is already under way, unless there is a strong rightist bloc in the Knesset to supervise the Likud, National Union MK Effi Eitam said Monday. “The debate over the division of Jerusalem is hypothetical,” he said, […]

Compiled by the Gush Katif-L’maan Acheinu Task Force, the report states that out of 1,000 high school youths among the Gush Katif expellees, 50 have dropped out of school totally, and another 50-100 are registered but barely show up. No solution has been offered for those at risk of dropping out. In addition, a gap […]

Police used severe violence in Gush Etzion, firing tear-gas grenades into a house sought to destroy, pepper-spraying protestors, and dragging and hitting those who interfered, injuring 12 youths. At the end of the day, the mixed secular/religious community of Sde Boaz saw a small house and stable destroyed, while thwarting the demolition of a large […]

New York – The ZOA has condemned Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) for allowing the Islamist terrorist organization, Hamas, which it is supposed to be disarming, to set up its own television channel within the PA. The channel, called Al-Aqsa, named for the mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, started broadcasting last night via satellite from […]

Since the disengagement last August, Israel’s security in relation to the Palestinian Authority, in particular the Gaza district, has been disintegrating. “The smuggling of weapons and explosives into Gaza has jumped by hundreds of percent in comparison to the period before the disengagement,” Diskin told the committee. “If before the disengagement, 200-300 rifles were smuggled […]

The Hevron Jewish Community leadership is calling upon Jews all over the country to flock to the city in order to protect the Mitzpe Shalhevet neighborhood from destruction. The people of Amonah, overlooking Ofrah in the Binyamin region, on the other hand, are taking a “wait and see” approach for the meanwhile. The Hevron neighborhood […]

The doctors began the process of easing Sharon out of his induced coma this morning, and he began breathing on his own shortly afterwards. He is still connected to a respirator, however. Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yoseph, Director of Hadassah in Ein Karem, Jerusalem, said later in the afternoon that Sharon had moved his right hand and […]

One of the most difficult issues American policy-makers will face this year is how to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. While President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s calls for Israel’s destruction have focused attention on Tehran’s threat to the Jewish state, a nuclear-armed Iran is not just a danger to Israel: It is a threat to American […]