An examination of Israel’s economy since 1948 demonstrates that the series of wars and on-going terrorism, along with frequent political crises, have not been but bumps on the road to a most impressive economic growth, in defiance of security and political unpredictabilities. The economic significance of the current political predicament is, certainly, substantially less severe […]

Wednesday night ushered in a new era in Israel’s political history. As we watch and worry as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon dangles between life and death, one thing is absolutely clear. Sharon’s massive cerebral hemorrhage on Wednesday night spelled the end of his political career. Sharon will never return to lead the State of Israel. […]

A U.S.-based Saudi professor and former U.N. fellow says he agrees with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Holocaust is a “myth” and says America eventually will collapse like the Soviet Union. Abdullah Mohammad Sindi, who has taught at four American schools, told Iran’s Mehr News Agency Dec. 26, “I agree wholeheartedly with President Ahmadinejad.” […]

Proponents of the disengagement as well as government statisticians might have expected that the number of Jews living across the country’s post 1967 borders would have declined after the disengagement, at least in the short term. But in fact, the exact opposite has occurred. On the eve of the disengagement, 250,179 Jews were officially registered […]

Egyptian police arrested some 100 Palestinians who swarmed across the Gaza Strip border on Wednesday after gunmen bulldozed a path through the barricade lining the frontier, Palestinian witnesses and officials said. Earlier, two Egyptian soldiers were killed and 37 wounded as thousands of Egyptian security forces were said to have withdrawn from the border with […]

Earlier this morning, doctors in Hadassah Ein Karem in Jerusalem said Sharon’s condition of Prime Minister Sharon continued to be “serious but stable.” They had planned to ease him out of his induced coma on Sunday morning. Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, Director of Hadassah Hospital, told reporters this morning that the Prime Minister’s condition had not […]

[IMRA: IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz explained to a Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting today that the IDF is not able to actually attack Qasssam shooters in action when they fire rockets towards Sderot because they fire them from populated areas.] No injuries reported in attack on southern town; Sderot mayor: Disaster […]

One day, years from now, after the war to defeat the global jihad has been won, historians will proclaim that the years of this war marked the darkest period in the history of Western journalism. In an essay in the current issue of Commentary magazine entitled “The Panic over Iraq,” Norman Podhoretz makes the case […]

In what many consider to be one of the most notorious holy site desecrations in recent history, nearly 100 Palestinian terrorists in April 2002 holed up inside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem while fleeing a massive Israeli anti-terror operation. One of Christianity’s most sacred sites, the church is believed to be the birthplace […]

A Shin Bet (Internal Security) annual report revealed that a large amount of ammunition has been smuggled into the Gaza Strip Since the disengagement. The ammunition included anti-aircraft missiles, hundreds of anti-tank rockets, thousands of assault rifles, a few tons of explosives. Still, a significant decline in the number of people killed in terrorist activity […]