The cleric, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, said at a news conference on Tuesday that Israel was building the synagogue in order to cause the mosque to collapse. Israel has formally denied the charges, stating categorically that nothing at all was being developed under the mosque, let alone a synagogue. A key speaker at the conference was […]

Three Kassam rockets struck the western Negev on Sunday, despite an IDF operation in northern Gaza to stop the rockets. Two of the rockets landed in open fields and the third struck the city of Sderot, a frequent target for the Kassams. None of the rockets caused damage or casualties. The rocket fired at Sderot […]

These are not my original ideas, but rather the ideas of a number of Jewish thinkers: 1. ORIGIN OF THE NAME, CHANUKAH. THE HOLIDAY OF EDUCATION. According to the first book of The Maccabees, Yehuda (who succeeded Mattityahu) ordered the Jewish People to observe an eight day holiday on the 25th day of the month […]

The Memorial Wall at Yad Vashem — the Wall of Holocaust and Heroism — has four sections, ranging from the Shoah to Rebirth. Magnificently designed by Naftali Bezem, it takes us movingly from an inferno in which the Holy is utterly profaned to the divine sanctuary of new Jewish generations. But these generations, symbolized by […]

The firing of the katyushas on Kiryat Shmona this week, as the launching of Qassams on Ashkelon and the Negev continues, testifies to a failure of Israeli deterrence. Many months ago, the brass of the Israel Defense Forces said that the day was near when technological means would be developed that would decrease the threat […]

IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said Thursday terrorism has gone down since the expulsion and withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria, but statistics on suicide bombings show the opposite. In an interview, Halutz said, “the level of terror has gone down significantly.” He also advised to take recent terrorist attacks in proportion and not […]