IMRA Yaalon: Sharon planned pullout out of personal distress As IDF troops enter Gaza, former chief of staff Moshe Yaalon says disengagement was planned by people lacking military, strategic expertise Ynet 6 July 2006 www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3271919,00.html Former IDF chief of general staff Moshe Yaalon said Thursday that Israel’s pullout from the Gaza Strip is a failure, […]

by Ezra HaLevi Arutz Sheva July 13, 2006 Hizbullah fired a long-range missile at the major Israeli port city of Haifa Thursday evening. Tzfat, Nahariya and Carmiel were struck again as well. A Tzfat resident died of his wounds. A simultaneous wave of missiles struck Tzfat and Nahariya at around 7:30 PM. Twenty people were […]

Fundamentally Freund Israel’s foes have now succeeded in opening a second front against the Jewish state. In a particularly painful and disturbing incident, Hizbullah terrorists in Lebanon carried out a cross-border raid along the northern frontier this morning, kidnapping two Israeli soldiers and killing seven others. Israel_lebanon And so, Israel now finds itself desperately trying […]

By Nadia Matar June 25, 2006 With his article, “The Wailing of Sderot Compared to the Heroism of Gush Katif” (Hatzofeh, June 20, 2006), journalist and commentator Hagai Huberman joins a few of the deportees from Gush Katif with whom I spoke, all of whom express themselves more or less in the same vein: “The […]

by Hana Levi Julian and Ezra HaLevi Arutz Sheva July 12, 2006 IDF tanks and ground troops entered Lebanon after two IDF soldiers were captured and eight killed in an attack on Israel’s northern border Wednesday. The army and air force called up reserves. The counter-attack came in the wake of a massive multi-pronged assault […]

IMRA TEL AVIV [MENL] — Israel’s military, encountering fresh Hamas threats, has urged the government not to maintain a limited ground troop presence in the Gaza Strip. Officials said Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz has demanded that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz either expand the current military operation in […]

by Hana Levi Julian Arutz Sheva June 30, 2006 A ramp which leads from the Western Wall to the Temple Mount will be removed by the Israel Antiquities Authority soon, putting into action a plan that has been on the table for the past two years. The Mugrabi ramp, located in one of the most […]

By: Judy Lash Balint Jewish Press Wednesday, July 5, 2006 June 29: This afternoon, Eliyahu Pinchas Asheri – son, brother, grandson, yeshiva student, friend – was buried on the Mount of Olives, the oldest Jewish cemetery in the world. Thousands flocked to the funeral home in Jerusalem’s Sanhedria neighborhood to pay their respects and listen […]

Once again, the real news is conveniently not being reported as it should. At present, in my Hebrew class, there is a woman who recently made aliya (immigration to Israel) from Paris with her family. I have spoken with her about anti-Semitism in France and she confirmed that it is very, very serious and getting […]

Three Kassam rockets were fired from northern Gaza during the night… Red Dawn warning system to be changed… Experts warned that Ashkelon would be hit two years ago… One of last night’s rockets landed in an open area in the western Negev, while the other two landed near Netiv HaAsarah, just north of Gaza. No […]